At the request of Bob Taft, the Ohio Senate added restrictions to House Bill 12 that would prevent parents from protecting their children while in a motor vehicle. Had the bad guy in this Six Flags Wyandot Lake camp ground been armed, the unintended result of Taft's "car-jacker/ kidnapper protection" provision might well have been fully displayed.

"It happened so quickly, it took me by surprise,'' Jeanne Stull said. "This creep clearly had nothing good intended. I never dreamed in a million years that being 10 feet away from my own kids in my own vehicle wasn't safe.'' (emphasis added)

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The anti-self-defense extremists want to make sure we don't look at other states' experience when considering passage of a concealed carry reform law here in Ohio. They have a bit of trouble making their blood-in-the-streets, crime-will-go-up, shoot-outs-at-fender-benders predictions in light of these state's experience.

Would they be any more interested in looking at states which have laws more akin to those they would prefer to get passed here in Ohio? Judging by recent experience in New York and Washington D.C., the answer is probably "no".

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Since they can't argue with basic observations of successes of concealed carry reform legislation in 35 shall-issue states, anti-self-defense extremists have resorted to personal attacks on the academics who first observed these successes.

After several recent discussions about John Lott's credibility on the opinion pages of the Columbus Dispatch, Dr. Lott himself has responded.

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