By Chad D. Baus

On March 24, 2009, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson took part in a live Internet chat hosted by NewsNet5.com (Cleveland's ABC affiliate, WEWS).

It was clear from many of the questions that Cleveland's crime problem in general, and the city's continued enforcement of illegal gun control laws in particular, were of major concern to chat participants.

But Mayor Jackson largely avoided these issues, and by the end of the chat participants were expressing their frustrations.

By Jim Irvine

Pro-gun former Speaker of the Ohio House Jon Husted (R - Kettering) has officially announced that he is running for Ohio Secretary of State in 2010.

As a State Representative, Husted voted for House Bill 274, an early concealed carry reform bill. And, it is worth noting, he voted for the clean bill, before the Ohio Senate wrecked it with every poison pill then Governor Taft could think of. Later, he also voted for HB12, the concealed carry reform bill that eventually became law in Ohio.

As Speaker of the Ohio House, Husted was a leader in passing statewide preemption, which ended a patchwork of conflicting and confusing laws and replaced it with uniform firearms laws throughout the state. Governor Taft vetoed the bill, HB347, but the General Assembly voted to override the veto - something that had not happened in almost 30 years. Husted also helped lead the effort to "de-Taft" Ohio's gun laws. Senate Bill 184 passed last year, eliminating the most dangerous and aggravating laws effecting law-abiding gun owners.