4/18/2006
The (Hillsboro, OH) Times-Gazette

By Senator John Carey

Imagine being in your own home, sound asleep in your own bed. Suddenly, you wake up to an unfamiliar noise. As you stumble to turn on the light, you find that a stranger has forcibly entered your home, potentially to harm you or your family.

There is a natural instinct that when someone is jeopardizing the well-being of you and your family, you will take every measure available and necessary to protect your loved ones and your home, even if it results in serious physical harm or death to yourself or the intruder.

Fortunately, our laws recognize this instinct and right to protect ourselves, our families and our homes from criminals as “self-defense.”

While Ohio has these kinds of laws in place, unfortunately they are quite cumbersome for victims who must prove that their act of self-defense was truly warranted, often at their own expense and with the threat of imprisonment looming over them.

That’s why I recently co-sponsored legislation to improve Ohio’s self-defense laws.

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By Jim Irvine

Monday’s Cleveland Plain Dealer had a front page article entitled “Gun Shows in the crossfire”, and I think they meant “crosshair” because they are certainly aiming have them closed down. But why bother to learn about the issue you are writing on? It has long been evident that many at the Plain Dealer hate guns, and that is all that really matters to them. So they work hard to make others fear/hate guns too.

At least the first paragraph lets you know where they are headed:

It's easy to build an illegal machine gun. Or to get the recipe for exploding gelatin.

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