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Gannett: Householder holds gun bill as parties hope for compromise

11:53am Saturday, January 03, 2004
By Jim Siegel Gannett News Service Columbus Bureau January 3, 2004 COLUMBUS -- The next two weeks will be key to determining whether a deal is reached between Gov. Bob Taft and House leaders over a bill allowing Ohioans to carry concealed handguns, a Taft spokesman said Friday. When lawmakers return from their Christmas vacations this week, the gun bill they passed in mid-December will still be...

2004 General Assembly elections shaping around Ohio CCW issue

11:47am Saturday, January 03, 2004
Term limits help to change Statehouse 01/03/04 Cleveland Plain Dealer Columbus- Taxes, term limits and debate over concealed weapons could help reshape the Ohio General Assembly after the March 2 primary. Friday was the date for candidates to file for all 99 Ohio House seats and the 16 even-numbered Senate seats that will be on the ballot this year. Nine representatives and seven senators will...

State Senator tries to turn CCW debate into class warfare battle

7:03pm Wednesday, December 31, 2003
When Dan Williamson broke the story that Senator White admitted he had the votes to override a Taft veto on HB12 back on November 27 , we had hope that he was one of the more objective reporters in Ohio. But in this, his latest story on the subject, it's more of what we've come to expect from Ohio's liberal media elite. It's tough to know where to begin with this piece. At times, it reads more as...

Never enough for ultra-liberal Dayton Daily News editors

3:00pm Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Handgun secrecy is a cynical joke Dayton Daily News Editorial December 26, 2003 A MEMORABLE SCENE IN A CLASSIC MOVIE SET in the old West has comic legend W.C. Fields holding forth in the back of a moving passenger train that's clacking past desert cactus and sagebrush. He regales fellow travelers with a tale of personal bravery. The exchange goes something like this: "I was surrounded by 20,000...

Taft's Eleventh Hour Issue Still Delaying HB12

4:08pm Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Privacy issue stalls gun bill Taft, House at odds over access to conceal-carry permit lists December 30, 2003 Lee Leonard Columbus Dispatch For the second December in a row, Ohioans are within an inch of being allowed to carry concealed handguns under limited circumstances. Standing in the way of enactment of House Bill 12, which has overwhelming support in both chambers of the Ohio legislature,...

Letter to the Editor: Editorial omitted facts about concealed-carry bill

12:38pm Sunday, December 28, 2003
December 27, 2003 Columbus Dispatch The editorial, “Taking the Heat,” imploring Governor Taft to veto HB12 was not only factually flawed but proved the Dispatch editorial staff is vehemently anti-gun. Ohio’s longtime ban on concealed weapons has only served criminals well - allowing them to prey on unarmed and unsuspecting victims for far too long, leaving Ohioans vulnerable to violent attack...

Lorain Morning Journal Editorial Can't Handle The Packed Heat

11:28am Friday, December 19, 2003
It should come as absolutely no surprise that the liberally left of left Lorain Morning Journal is opposed to concealed carry reform. Likewise, it should be no surprise that they're having an editorial spasm over the fact that a few hundred people carrying firearms are going shopping in Vermilion this weekend. Are you coming to shop? The editorial can be found right here , or you can click Read...

Letter to the Editor: To veto CCW bill would breach oath

11:47am Thursday, December 18, 2003
December 18, 2003 Gov. Bob Taft acknowledges that the recently passed concealed-carry legislation completely satisfies his public safety concerns. Nonetheless, he has threatened to veto this legislation because he believes that the public should have unrestricted access to concealed-carry permit applications. When Governor Taft took office, he swore to protect the Constitution of the State of...

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