Lorain newspaper continues to rage against self-defense

July 3, 2004
Lorain Morning Journal

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FROWNS: Here's a new way to waste our tax money; the state has to defend itself in a lawsuit that contends Ohio's new concealed weapons law doesn't sufficiently make clear what it means when it says a gun must be holstered ''in plain view'' in a car, unless it's locked in a glove compartment. The lawyer-gun instructor who is suing contends that without specifying what ''in plain view'' means, gun-toters are at the mercy of an individual cop's interpretation and thus could suffer bruises to their 14th Amendment right to equal protection under the law. He wants the plain view requirement stricken. Let's just strike the whole concealed guns law and return to a state of sanity.

Commentary:
We welcome the newspaper editors' desire to "return to a state of sanity", and we'd like to point out that the easiest way to get there is not through new legislation - it's by jumping on the 80/90 and heading west to Illinois, Kansas, Wisconsin or Nebraska - the only four states left without such self-defense laws.

We might even consider helping with gas.