Letter to the Editor: Editorial cartoon missed point of concealed carry

Cincinnati Enquirer
May 28, 2003

In the Mike Keefe cartoon published on May 25, a man explains to his female companion that the "violent sociopath" holding a gun on her has a concealed weapon's permit, so it's OK. Well, are we supposed to believe that the violent sociopath has a gun only because of a concealed carry law? The violent sociopath doesn't need a permit; his permit comes from the voices in his head. The point of concealed carry, as the cartoonist surely knows, is to leave the violent sociopath in the dark about what the victim couple might be carrying by way of defense and thus, perhaps, he might be dissuaded.

Gene Wolters
Anderson Township

We were quite surprised to see the terribly misleading cartoon, to which Mr. Wolters is referring, in the Enquirer, a paper which has published two pro-concealed carry reform editorials in as many years. The cartoonist is from a newspaper in Colorado, a state which has just improved the concealed carry law from "may issue" to "shall issue". Obviously the media in Colorado went to the same journalism schools that many in Ohio did.