Senate Bill 184, Ohio's Castle Doctrine bill, has been added to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice's agenda for Wednesday, April 16 at 10:00 a.m. in the Senate Building's North Hearing Room.

This will be the sixth hearing of the bill by this committee.

The committee chairman has indicated that the committee may adopt amendments before a possible vote.

For more information on Ohio's Castle Doctrine legislation, see: Buckeye Firearms Association Endorses HB264/SB184; Castle Doctrine Legislation.

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By Chad D. Baus

Last September, anti-gun Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, in a continuing struggle to get ahead of the public relations debacle he faces while presiding over a significant increase in homicides in 2007, and seeking to justify his use of taxpayer resources on a go-it-alone court challenge of HB347, a state law which preempts local gun control laws, launched another salvo in his effort to divert blame for his city's crime problems.

In a September 10, 2007 press release released at a conference where he announced his collusion with Reps. Sandra Williams and Timothy Boyd on HB354, Jackson stated as follows:

“Right now, if a young person was walking down any Ohio street brandishing an assault weapon, the police could not arrest him for that.”

So you can imagine what a shock it must have been to Cleveland residents was when, on April 1, 2008, viewers of Cleveland's ABC affiliate were told about the arrest of two teens who were...you guessed it...carrying guns while walking down a city street.

By Gerard Valentino

Boston.com recently reported that the Boston Police Department delayed its program to institute warrantless searches of people’s homes because of strong opposition to the plan.

OK, even though I’ve read the article four times it hasn’t stopped causing me to hyperventilate. It isn’t that the police administration would actually try to search people’s houses without proper cause or without a warrant, which is bad enough, it is because they are SURPRISED PEOPLE WOULD OBJECT.

As if inviting the police into your home to search without cause is your civic duty or some such nonsense. If such actions don’t cause the good citizens of Boston to fire their current mayor and demand the resignation of the chief of police they never will.