By Jim Irvine

In a Plain Dealer editorial Monday, the Cleveland Plain Dealer again uses puns to downplay the importance of firearms issues in their editorial “Playing with Guns.”

In boring fashion, they again make fun of the firearms issue, but mistakenly get more right than they intended.

From the story:

Ted Strickland numbers gun enthusiasts among his biggest supporters. And given the Democratic nominee for governor's Appalachian roots, there's nothing surprising about that.

True! With the failure of Republican Governor Bob Taft and the Republican controlled Senate to pass much needed firearms reform, Ted Strickland is calling a spade a spade. A Democrat noting that Governor Taft is a failure. Nope – nothing surprising about that.

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Again from the story:

But when Strickland said last Monday that he would sign House Bill 347 - a bad gun bill now pending in the Ohio Senate - the "moment it hits" his desk, he needlessly put into play an issue that has long occupied too much of the legislature's time. Strickland's response reflected an over-eagerness to please gun enthusiasts.