Even the title of this section proves the editors at the Cleveland Plain Dealer just don't get it.

They say readers are "upset by the lists that aren't published." But as you can see from reading, it's not the lists they aren't publishing that has Plain Dealer readers seeing red. Rather, it's the hypocracy revealed in which lists the paper is so vehemently committed to publishing.

01/15/04
Readers upset by the lists that aren't published

I read with interest the recent editorial staunchly defending the newspaper's First Amendment right to publish the names of those exercising their Second Amendment rights by legally carrying concealed weapons in public, in full conformance with the recently passed Ohio law.

Tell me, is The Plain Dealer also going to publish the names of those illegally carrying concealed weapons in public?

Thomas J. Finn
Chagrin Falls

I've looked in the paper the last couple of days for the lists of sex offenders and drunken drivers. I haven't been able to find them. Why, then, do the powers that be think it's a good idea to list the names of the law-abiding citizens who get concealed-weapons permits?

How does not listing people who have broken the law but listing the ones who follow it make me or anyone else safer? What is The Plain Dealer's real reason for wanting to do this?

Mark Ratcliff
Parma

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January 15, 2004
Toledo Blade

Many Englishmen feel twice victimized, by intruder and government

By EILEEN FOLEY

As a concealed-carry law moved toward Gov. Taft's desk, and he said "I look forward to signing it," Americans must look appreciatively to Britain and rejoice that we shucked the colonial yoke.

Why? Because there self-defense is a crime, burglars have sued homeowners who shoot them, and a homeowner can be denied parole if he's believed to be dangerous to burglars.

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January 15, 2004
Gannett News Service

COLUMBUS -- Joy Padgett described Wednesday's Senate session as more like a class reunion than a formal swearing in ceremony.

"It has just been a maze of memories," she said, hugging friends and colleagues who mobbed her on the Senate floor.

Several dozen lawmakers welcomed Padgett back to the Legislature after she took her oath of office Wednesday, officially replacing Jim Carnes in the Senate. Padgett served in the House from 1992 to 1999, and said she was happy to be working with familiar faces and friends once again.

For her part Padgett said she was excited and humbled to be back serving in the Legislature again, and promised to work with her colleagues to help make the state a better place. Padgett was the original sponsor of legislation allowing certain Ohioans to carry concealed firearms.

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January 15, 2004
Toledo Blade

Stabbing victim had order for protection
Husband surrendered to authorities Tuesday

An Antwerp, Ohio, woman who police said was stabbed by her estranged husband Tuesday had a protection order against him for herself and their two children, court records show.

The protection order, effective through 2008, also granted Rachel Clifford, 35, exclusive possession of the couple’s rural Antwerp home near U.S. 24, where the stabbing occurred.

Charles Clifford, 45, who was charged with stabbing Ms. Clifford repeatedly, fled the scene but turned himself in to authorities about nine hours after the Tuesday-morning attack.

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Mr. Clifford was being held last night at the Paulding County jail, pending an arraignment this morning in Paulding County Court. Mr. Clifford faces one count of felonious assault.

Ms. Clifford was taken to Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind., where hospital officials said no information was available about her condition. Paulding County Sheriff David Harrow said her injuries were serious, but not life threatening.

The domestic incident - coupled with the suspect’s fleeing the scene - prompted lock-downs during the remainder of the school day Tuesday at Antwerp Local and Paulding Exempted Village districts, where the couple’s two children are students. A third school in Defiance County, Ayersville Local, went into a partial lock-down because one of the children had attended there for a short period in the fall.

Later that evening, Mr. Clifford went to the Defiance post of the Ohio Highway Patrol, where Paulding County deputies went and picked him up.

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