Several traditionally pro-self defense rights newspaper editorial boards have recently published editorials calling upon passage of Am. Sub. HB12 (as amended by the Senate). While noble in their intent, it seems these opinions are based on a lack of familiarity with just how egregious the Senate's amendments are (especially the Taft "Car-jacker Protection" provision), and just how many more law-abiding citizens would be threatened with arrest and prosecution - and violent attack - as a result of the Senate's changes.

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Friday, July 04, 2003

Why does The Dispatch continue to print statements that either make no sense or clearly have no rational thought behind them? If the newspaper is going to lean left — and it always does — why not at least offset each article from the left with an opposing one from the right?

For example, The Dispatch published the June 19 article "Gun bill fails to sway NRA." Sen. Eric D. Fingerhut, D-Cleveland, was quoted: "If this bill becomes law . . . then it will be on his (Gov. Bob Taft’s) watch. Every time a child picks up a gun and kills someone, it will be on his hands."

This is not a bill about owning a gun; it is about residents carrying the guns they already own without being made criminals. Forty-four states have the proof that gun violence has not increased with the passage of a law allowing the concealed carrying of handguns.

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