Judging from their new concealed carry website, even the Ohio Hospital Association won't speak up about this absurdity - as long as his patients don't try and exercise their right to self-defense at his office.

February 6, 2004

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - With four doctors serving 15,000 people in Monroe County, a judge said she had no other choice but to allow a doctor registered as a sex offender to continue his practice there.

Geoffrey D. Snyder, 37, had restrictions put on his family practice in the rural eastern Ohio county in the ruling Thursday by Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Jennifer Brunner.

There must be a nurse or other staff member in the room when Snyder treats women or minors. Snyder may not accept new patients and must continue psychological counseling, she said.

Snyder was labeled a sex offender last May when he pleaded no contest to importuning. He allegedly pursued a sexual rendezvous with a 14-year-old girl on the Internet. "She" turned out to be an undercover police officer.

On January 13 and 18th, the Toledo Blade published two anti-concealed carry editorials - Legally armed and dangerous and
Ohioans held hostage by the Republicans. The responses are STILL coming in from angry readers.

February 10, 2004
Toledo Blade

Concealed-carry: Some predictions

A Jan. 13 editorial proclaimed that passage of Ohio's new concealed carry law will "make the dangerous business of law enforcement even riskier."

I challenge you and any other person who is predicting blood in the streets, Wild West shootouts, and other dire scenarios to mark your calendars for April, 2006, when the law will have been in effect for two years.

On that date, my predictions are that with regards to legal CCW holders, there will have been no wrongful shootings, no law enforcement officer will have any untoward incidents during a traffic stop (or otherwise), violent crime will have declined slightly, and the entire issue will be deemed not newsworthy.

Although not a betting man, I'll take wagers that my predictions are much closer to the mark than yours.

JIM DUNMYER
Temperance

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Ohioans For Concealed Carry is happy to announce the release of the training schedule on the OhioCCW Training website!

Please visit http://www.ohioccwtraining.org/schedule.html to locate training in your area.

Because the system is so new, the number of available classes in your area may not be sufficient. More and more affiliates are registering and posting classes every day. The system will e-mail registered users once per week with announcements of NEW training schedules in their area.

If you know of a training facility that is NOT listed, let them know that they can do so FREE OF CHARGE.

If you experience any problems with the site, please send an e-mail to webmaster@ohioccwtraining.org

Greg Kopp
OFCC Training Committee

Now that concealed carry is law in Ohio, businesses across the state are working to learn how they should respond in terms of policies within their own facilities. Some state-level business associations and organizations are offering help to their members, and delving into an area they obviously know very little about.

In the case of the Ohio Hospital Association, the "help" seems to consist only of informing members about half of the law, and encouraging members only on the merits of banning CHL-holders from their places of business.

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Pop quiz: What do sufferers of eating disorders, combat veterans, rape victims, grief sufferers and police officers who have experienced traumic events have in common?

If, as a means of recovery, they checked themselves into a counseling facility or stress center (or if a family member helped them check in), they share in common being profiled by the Ohio gun ban lobby and certain Ohio newspaper editors as being "people no one wants to have packing a loaded handgun."

Yes, that's right. If followed through to it's logical conclusion, the recent balleyhoo over a supposed conflict between the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Ohio's new concealed carry law would seek to prevent citizens like these from exercising their Constitutional right to self-defense.

Simply because she needed help in a mental care facility while recovering from a violent rape, and checked herself into a mental facility, Cincinnati Enquirer editors apparently believe a victim should be prevented from ever being able to obtain a concealed handgun license (CHL).

Simply because he needed some time in a stress center to deal with the loss of a child, writers at the Dayton Daily News infer that a father is not to be trusted with a concealed firearm.

Simply because she was nearly killed by a drugged-up felon while trying to make an arrest, and sought professional help in a recovery facility before going back on the job, Toby Hoover, Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, seems to suggest a former police officer deserves to be treated like the criminal she once took off the street.

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