Middletown Journal
01.17.04

Sour grapes. That’s what seeps out of the sardonic editorial (“Gun bill provisions will be next target”) in the Jan. 10 Journal.

The most ludicrous of these “targeted provisions” in Ohio’s new concealed carry law is this one: Reporters are allowed to learn the names of permit-holders. Now why would our beloved newspaper object to this provision being removed from the bill? Reporters are, by definition, notorious blabbermouths, so I can’t wait for this provision to be struck.

Then there’s that provision about keeping guns out of day-care centers and schools. There are credible studies indicating that children who are routinely deposited in day care centers at an early age (this includes my granddaughter) become maladjusted; they are more aggressive than are normal children, and tend to sass their grandparents. Should the “dump them at day care” trend continue, soon the teachers will need guns for their own protection.

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Seemingly not content with their three editorials on the subject, the Cleveland Plain Dealer's latest rant about the open records issue and concealed carry is written in the form of "news".

Concealing weapons & records

01/25/04
Julie Carr Smyth

Columbus - A battle is under way in America over whether you deserve to know who is carrying a concealed handgun - and Ohio is at its heart.

When Gov. Bob Taft agreed to sign a concealed-carry bill this month that banned access to permit records for everyone except journalists, he "split the baby" in a way no state had done before, said Luis Tolley of the Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence.

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