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Double-standard: Privacy a right for everyone but law-abiding gun owners

Submitted by cbaus on Tue, 08/10/2004 - 16:14.

The need for the protection of privacy has been in the news a lot lately, and it would appear liberals and the media elite supports such efforts for everyone but...you guessed it...law-abiding CHL-holders.

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Strike Two: Another PD editor tries to justify discriminatory actions

Submitted by cbaus on Tue, 08/10/2004 - 14:08.

Those who catch the headline of Phillip Morris' latest column in the Cleveland Plain Dealer may gain the impression that at least one member of the editorial board is coming to understand how damaging its decision to publish the names of concealed handgun license-holders has been. Some may believe it is evidence that the paper has been asking itself what role it played in the death of Bill Singleton.

But as deeper into Associate Editor Phillip Morris' column, it becomes quickly apparent that any such pangs of guilt are resulting in the production of spin in the Plain Dealer editorial room that would make Bill Clinton proud.

OFCC's Chad Baus responds in blue:

August 10, 2004
Cleveland Plain Dealer

CCW permit listings hurt the innocent

Steve is a gun enthusiast, and he watched closely as the concealed-carry debate dominated the Ohio General Assembly for years.

Finally, this past session, a law was passed giving Ohioans the right to carry concealed handguns in public.

The law, a long-overdue correction of Ohio's ambiguous and poorly constructed "affirmative defense," which made a criminal out of anyone who carried a handgun - regardless of the reason - was cheered by Steve and thousands of other Ohioans who believe that the state and federal constitutions mean what they say about the right to bear arms.

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