By Mark Noble

A few days ago, the Dayton Daily News ran a piece proclaiming that "Students for Concealed Carry on Campus is fighting for the right to be armed at school." The reality is that all students have an inherent right to be armed – it cannot be forcefully removed from a determined student. Students for Concealed Carry on Campus are merely pressing legislators to bring their civil liberties in line with their existing inherent rights.

By John Longenecker

I've written before that the Colleges refusing to recognize student rights are indecent. I write often that in forcing liberty enthusiast students to obtain 'counseling', to face suspension or other punishment even for inquiring about handgun policy within right-to-carry states, they force adult students to choose between felony and funeral. This is indecent for public servants to tell the citizen authority how much authority we have. Indecent. It is technically wrong and tortious.

The House Criminal Justice Committee, chaired by Rep. John White (R-38), will hold a fourth hearing on HB264 (Castle Doctrine), on Thursday, May 1 at 9:30 a.m. in Statehouse Room 121.

The chairman has indicated that a substitute bill may be introduced.

The Senate's version of Castle Doctrine (SB184) passed the Senate earlier this month with unanimous support.

Meanwhile in the Senate, Ohio's "Firearms Modernization" (Concealed Carry Fix-it) bill (SB318), has been added to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice's agenda for Wednesday, April 30 at 10:00 a.m. in the Senate Building's North Hearing Room.

This will be the second formal hearing of the bill by this committee, and is being held for the purpose of considering opponent testimony.

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