7th month of freedom & security in Seneca County
Despite the fact that every state bordering Ohio allows law-abiding citizens to carry firearms for self-defense, and despite the successful reduction of violent crime from such laws nationwide, Ohio's governor, certain Senators, and the OSHP bureaucracy still seem to believe that Ohioans are less responsible than the citizens of these other states.
For close to seven months, the good citizens of Seneca County have continued to prove them wrong.
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On February 12, 2003, Judge Michael P. Kelbley threw out a concealed-weapons charge against a Fostoria woman caught with a gun under her seat during a traffic stop, saying Ohio law prevents citizens from protecting themselves.
This ruling means that, in Seneca County, the concealed carry ban cannot be enforced. Responsible citizens are now enjoying their seventh month of being able to exercise their Constitutional, civil, and human right to self-defense in that county without fear of arrest, without a licensing framework, without training requirements, without background checks, without databases, and without the Taft "Carjacker Protection" provision.
By all accounts, there has been no mayhem, no blood in the streets, no shoot-outs at fender-benders.
It seems the good people of Seneca County are as capable as residents in Vermont and Alaska (not to mention our neighbors in Kentucky, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Michigan and West Virginia) at exercising their unfettered self-defense rights without so much as a glitch in daily business for Seneca County law enforcement. Residents in Hamilton County were proven to be so as well, when the concealed carry ban was lifted several times in that city by the courts before a Supreme Court stay.
So why is Bob Taft fighting to squeeze every last breath out of HB12? Why is he insisting on a provision that would paint targets on vehicles with children on board? And why is Sen. Pres. White refusing to assign conference committee members, who could remove the amended language in HB12 that makes Am. Sub. HB12 worse than current law?
OFCC has provided anecdotal evidence, peer-reviewed studies, excellent testimony, and polls proving the benefits of CCW. Yet, thanks to a few Republicans in the Senate, and Gov. Bob Taft, we still don't have a concealed carry law. What else could they possibly want? As they play politics, innocent people continue to become victims.
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