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OOPS: Toby Hoover admits gun control not a priority for Ohioans

By Chad D. Baus

In 2003, toward the end of the nearly decade-long debate on whether or not Ohio should join the modern world and pass a concealed carry law, gun ban extremist Toby Hoover repeatedly asserted that "The majority of Ohioans oppose carrying concealed guns" and "The majority of Ohioans oppose secretly carrying hidden loaded guns in public."

After a mass shooting at a "no-guns" church in the "no-guns" state of Wisconsin in 2005, Hoover stated that "Sooner or later, people are going to say, 'Enough is enough'."

After Ohio's concealed carry law took effect (in spite of Hoover's efforts at stopping it via a lawsuit), she stated "The gun lobby knows that carrying hidden loaded handguns is not what Ohioans want."

"We were speaking for the majority and this is not what Ohioans wanted," Hoover cackled. "We had legislators who went in and catered to a few. And they gave them a privilege that now we — the rest of us — have all had to readjust and consider what our risks are with that. The adult population of Ohio does not think they have to be armed at all times."