The New Haven (CT) Register has reported an incident in which a 29-year-old man was able to discourage three teenage attackers, thanks to his licensed, concealed handgun.

Brandon Kruse of New Haven was attacked by three juveniles who approached him on the sidewalk. As he passed them, one turned and hit him in the head. After a struggle, Kruse drew his handgun, which caused the juveniles to drop shopping bags they were carrying and run.

Kruse called the police and, as he waited, two of the juveniles came back for their bags. Still holding the gun, Kruse warned them away. Police shortly had all three juveniles in custody.

In an editorial titled "Gun group can move on now," the Canton Repository recently criticized OFCC for trying to keep Ohio's concealed carry notification law at the forefront of the discussion surrounding Daniel Harless.

"Cantonians don’t need any help figuring out what’s important to them," stated the Rep's editorial. "What residents of Canton are talking about is whether Patrolman Daniel Harless belongs on the street, and what should happen to him when an internal affairs investigation wraps up. What Cantonians aren’t talking about so much is Ohio’s concealed-carry law."

The Repository's print and web editions now have published our unedited rebuttal. Read more by clicking below.

Introducing what very well may become our next viral video

At Ohioans For Concealed Carry's 2011 Party In The Park we were absolutely thrilled to have Representative Danny Bubp address the crowd.

While representatives from OFCC were in Columbus for the recent bill signings Representative Bubp arranged for us to have the opportunity to speak with other pro-gun activists in a casual meeting with Governor Kasich's staff right outside the ceremony signing room. At that meeting we openly discussed things that needed to come next with respect to Ohio legislative reform and I advised the Governor's staff of the Canton, Ohio traffic stop in very broad terms. I stated that it was absolutely necessary that we eliminate mandatory notification.

Just minutes into his extremely well received speech Representative Bubp acknowledges the fact that legislation we have been authoring will be moving the ball further down the field. As you watch this video you will understand why Representative Bubp is the 2011 Tony Gordon Memorial Award recipient, and why you should have attended our annual picnic!

Other PITP video footage includes:

Jack D'Aurora, a Columbus lawyer, recently used the editorial page of the Columbus Dispatch to unleash a vacuous rant against concealed carry.

The editorial is so full of anti-rights bigotry, fallacy, doubletalk, out-of-context quotes from long-debunked studies, adolescent gamesmanship, and lies that we'd need 5 times the space allotted to the "Idiot of the Day" feature just to write the introduction to a rebuttal.

Nevertheless, let me give you one quick but nicely representative example of D'Aurora's brilliance: "Concealed-carry laws also make police work more difficult. Illinois does not have a concealed-carry law. [A study] states that police see this as a powerful tool for taking criminals off the street."

After you catch your breath, you start to get a feeling for D'Aurora's alternate reality: The denial of gun rights in Illinois has taken criminals off the streets of Chicago and made that city safer. The Illinois concealed carry ban is so effective that other states ought to copy the program. And of course, gun laws should exist for the convenience of the police.

My reality goes like this: Illinois is now the only state in the nation without a concealed carry permit process, and Chicago is the most dangerous city in America, teeming with criminals and illegal guns. Further, gun laws don't need to be designed to accommodate the police; the right to bear arms is a Constitutionally enumerated, basic human right.

If D'Aurora, a lawyer, wants to ramp-up his public profile, he ought to find a better way than puking up a hackneyed, bigoted rant in the Columbus Dispatch. What an Idiot.

UPDATE, AUG. 6, 2011: The half-baked study that D'Aurora quoted has been discredited again. The Courier-News (a Chicago-area newspaper owned by the Chicago Sun Times) ran a news feature on Aug. 6 titled, "Local Police Give Support to Concealed Carry."

The article stated: "Of the dozen area law enforcement leaders contacted by the Courier-News, none said they opposed concealed carry."

D'Aurora has gone beyond running afoul of the Second Amendment rights movement. He's guilty of intellectual dishonesty and anti-rights bigotry.

What an Idiot.

UPDATE, AUG. 7, 2011: Preeminent scholar and author John Lott has published a rebuttal to D'Aurora in the Columbus Dispatch, here.