Two Ohio newspapers have recently featured "Q&A"-style interviews with front-running Democrat gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland.

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By Larry S. Moore

The Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal is reporting that Gov. Mitch Daniels has signed into law a bill specifying that a person who feels threatened may use deadly force against an intruder.

From the story:

House Bill 1028 says that people have no duty to retreat -- or try to escape -- if they believe they are being threatened on their property or in their vehicle.

"I'm very pleased," the bill's author, Rep. Eric Koch, R-Bedford, said yesterday. "It was an opportunity for the people of Indiana -- speaking through their elected representatives -- to establish what I think is a very fundamental right, that is a right to defend yourself, your family and your property from harm."

....The National Rifle Association backed the bill in Indiana and 15 other states, including Kentucky, where the measure is pending. It is also law in Florida and South Dakota and has been approved by legislators in Mississippi.

....HB 1028 passed the House 81-10 on final passage; it passed the Senate 44-5.

Ohio Rep. Steve Buehrer has introduced similar legislation in HB541, and the bill will receive its first hearing Tuesday March 28 in the Ohio House.

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