Bad times for defenseless victims in Akron

After devising a knee-jerk executive order banning CHL-holders from all county property and from county vehicles, OFCC can now report that Summit County officials are now reexamining the order, in light of OFCC's notification (with the assistance of Tim Dimoff, SACS Consulting and Investigative Services of Akron), that the order is a violation of Section 9 of House Bill 12.

After reading these headlines from ONE DAY in the Akron Beacon-Journal, it would seem county officials should be focusing on what criminals are doing with guns, instead of on finding ways to discriminate against law-abiding, defenseless Ohioans:

Authorities think same two men committed string of Akron crimes
Akron police are investigating a string of robberies that occurred in an hour span Monday night.

Officers believe the same two men committed the robberies. The common link is a dark blue or dark gray Chevy Impala or Caprice that the robbers used to get away.

The robbers wore masks and brandished guns in each incident.

Akron man faces abduction charges
An Akron man faces kidnapping and assault charges in the abduction of a former girlfriend.

[The accused] forced the woman into his car, at gunpoint, around 9 Monday night on Maxen Drive, according to the Akron Police Department. The woman was driven to another location, where he bound her with shoelaces. He then beat her and doused her with bleach repeatedly over the course of the night, police said.

Men invade home, hold woman, 3 kids
A 31-year-old woman and her three children were the victims of a home invasion Monday night in Goodyear Heights.

The Akron Police Department said that three men approached the woman in the 400 block of Iroquois Avenue after she took out the trash at 11:45 p.m. One of the men brandished a handgun, and the trio then forced her into her home. The woman reportedly was struck in the head with the gun.