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The Pen is Mightier…and More Dangerous |
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The Knox Report
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Written by Daniel White
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
The Knox Report
From the Firearms Coalition
By Jeff Knox
(May 6, 2008) When Steven Barber turned in his midterm creative writing assignment at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise (UVA-Wise), he was hoping for a good grade to complement his 3.9 grade point average. Instead, Barber was expelled from school, locked in a mental institution for three days, and had his concealed carry permit revoked.
Barber’s fictional story was a first person narrative of a troubled college student consumed by depression, paranoia, drug addiction, and alcoholism as he struggles with one of tragedy’s recurrent themes, “To be or not to be.” The character progresses through fear, anger, and despair; sleeping with a gun under his pillow after the Virginia Tech massacre, contemplating the murder of an unpleasant professor, and finally deciding on suicide. The entire story is just contemplation – no characters, real or fictional were harmed in the telling of the story – and Barber himself is nothing like the character he described.
But Barber’s professor, Christopher Scalia, son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and some of the class members were uncomfortable with the story. No one complained about another student’s paper which included violent, bloody murder, but that carnage was carried out with a knife while Barber’s character had a gun. Perhaps someone in the class knew that Barber owned guns and feared that the character in the story represented its author’s secret desires. Whatever their motivation, their concerns were shared with the college administration who decided to involve the campus police. Within 24 hours of sharing his writing project, Barber was confronted by campus police who questioned him about his frame of mind, searched his person and his room, and asked him about weapons. Barber, believing he had Virginia law on his side, admitted that he did have three pistols locked in his car whereupon the police searched the car and confiscated the guns.
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Tragedy Proves Parks Not Safe |
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Ohio Politics
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Written by Daniel White
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
Unfortunately, it often takes the most heinous of crimes to remind us just how untrue the anti-gun rhetoric is.
As many of you know, right now OFCC is embroiled in a case before the Ohio Supreme Court, fighting against the City of Clyde (and all anti-gun municipalities) who passed an ordinance banning firearms in their public parks (in violation of statewide preemption).
The anti-gun crowd will have you believe that you don't need your gun in a park and that banning guns make people feel safe. Of course, feeling safe and being safe are actually two different things entirely.
Today, the newscasts are rife with stories about the woman who was abducted from the Lorain County Metro Parks’ Carlisle Reservation, shot in the back, and raped. |
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National Parks Ban Call For Action |
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National Politics
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Written by Daniel White
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
The Virginia Citizens Defense League has issued a call for action in the efforts to overturn the ban on firearms in National Parks. OFCC was one of the signatories of the VCDL petition to overturn the ban, and we support their efforts.
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As you know, the Department of the Interior (DOI) has finally
published a proposed change to the National Park and National Wildlife
Refuge rules.
The question is -- Does this DOI change fairly address either the
concerns expressed in a letter signed by 51 Senators or VCDL's
Petition for Rule Making (PRM)?
-- The letter signed by the 51 Senators states that they support "an
exception...to allow law-abiding citizens to transport and carry
firearms consistent with state law where the National Park Service's
sites and the National Wildlife Refuges are located."
-- The Petition for Rule Making (PRM) submitted by VCDL requested
DOI regulations be modified to "permit citizens to carry operational
handguns for personal protection in National Parks, consistent with
the laws of the state in which the park is located".
Does DOI's proposed change do either of the above? NO!
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Update on Castle Doctrine Legislation |
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Latest News
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Written by Gary Witt
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
On May 1st, the House Criminal Justice Committee of eight Republicans and seven Democrats accepted Substitute House Bill (HB) 264. There was no discussion and no objection from any of the committee members prior to its acceptance. The bill’s language is now identical (except for one technical issue characterized by one legislator as "insignificant") to the language of Substitute Senate Bill (SB) 184. Substitute SB 184 passed the full Senate unanimously on April 16, 2008.
Under the proposed legislation, an individual (or his legal representative) who was in the process of committing one or more of the violent crimes listed in the bill would not be able to bring a civil lawsuit against an individual who used deadly force to prevent death or serious bodily harm to himself or others. If the deadly force was used in ones home or vehicle, there is a presumption of self defense and the burden of proof otherwise is on the prosecutor. If the deadly force was used anywhere else the burden of proof is on the person who used deadly force to prove it was necessary.
OFCC member Gary Witt attended the House committee meeting on behalf of OFCC. He was told by legislators that the House and Senate leadership will determine which bill moves forward. "It would seem", Witt said, "that having identical language in both bills will make the process easier."
Committee schedules and their agendas are normally posted on Friday afternoons for the following week. Please visit this link for the Criminal Justice Committee. Full text of the Substitute SB 184 can be found here. Substitute HB 264 is not available online as of this writing. |
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Meet, Greet, Shoot, Eat at The Salem Hunting Club of Ohio |
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Latest News
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Written by Mike Kinsey
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
OFCC Forum regulars are all too familiar with the rally cry “Meet and Greet!”, a term often used for members to get together and meet one another while breaking bread.
On July 19, 2008 members will gather in Salem, Ohio for a new type of get together:
Meet, Greet, Shoot and Eat!
The Salem Hunting Club of Ohio will be the site for this OFCC hosted social gathering. Members will enjoy a day of camaraderie, various shooting events and then capping the day with a local meal.
For more information, you can look here.
Salem Hunting Club of Ohio
546 Indiana Ave. (off St. Rt. 62)
Salem, Ohio 44460
www.salemhuntingclubofohio.com |
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National Politics
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Written by Daniel White
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
The Wall Street Journal is not often a publication one would turn to for pro-gun reporting, but a recent opinion peace published entitled Trigger Happy worked to dispel several gun myths pertaining to the character and happiness levels of those who choose to take responsibility for their own personal protection.
Responding to a Barack Obama quote, "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or antitrade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations", this piece pointed out that, in fact, gun owners from both of the major political parties reported higher levels of happiness than those who didn't own firearms.
In 2006, 36% of gun owners said they were "very happy," while 9% were "not too happy." Meanwhile, only 30% of people without guns were very happy, and 16% were not too happy.
In 1996, gun owners spent about 15% less of their time than nonowners feeling "outraged at something somebody had done." It's easy enough in certain precincts to caricature armed Americans as an angry and miserable fringe group. But it just isn't true. The data say that the people in the approximately 40 million American households with guns are generally happier than those people in households that don't have guns. |
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The Knox Report
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Written by Daniel White
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Monday, 21 April 2008 |
The Knox Report
From the Firearms Coalition
By Jeff Knox
(April 15, 2008) As the interminable presidential primary process drags on and on, with the media intently focused on the three remaining contenders, GunVoters need to look beyond the national media circus and to pay attention to matters closer to home: to the primary elections for the House, Senate, governor, and state legislatures. GunVoters’ chances to make a difference in the presidential primaries has come and gone with the result being no candidate that we can get excited about supporting. We must make sure the same thing doesn’t happen in congressional, state, and local races as well.
If GunVoters fail to get involved in the primaries, there might well be no reason to get involved in the general. Left with the choice of voting for Tweedle-dumb or Tweedle-dumber up and down the ticket, many GunVoters could end up voting with their feet by going hunting or fishing on election day instead of going voting. The fact is that voters’ power and influence is much greater in a primary election than it ever is during the general election simply because fewer people participate. In most states, less than 30 percent of eligible voters will cast a ballot in a presidential primary while in others less than 10 percent vote. In most states the Congressional primaries are held on a different day than the presidential primaries and the voter turnout for the Congressional and legislative primaries is typically even less than it is for the presidential primaries.
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