Guns in the News

Letter to the Editor: Concealed-carry bill too restrictive

11:33am Wednesday, July 23, 2003
The Dayton Daily News has published a group of letters concerning concealed carry reform, both pro and con, in the Wednesday, July 23, 2003 Click on the "Read More... link below for exerpts and a link to the DDN letters page. Pro-self-defense letters: • Randall W. Klotz of Germantown writes of Gov. Taft's car-jacker protection provision: "I disagree with the Senate requirements to keeping a...

Letter to the Editor: Courts have spoken - People should protect themselves

10:20am Saturday, July 19, 2003
An excellent letter to the editor has been written by a police officer with 25 years of experience, and published in the Columbus Dispatch. Mr. Joseph Wayne wrote in response to an earlier letter from the mother of a person who was injured in the CRWU shooting. Click here to read the full letter in the Columbus Dispatch, or click on the "Read More..." link below for an archived version. Saturday...

Plain Dealer editorial: Bring on the victim zones

9:28am Saturday, July 19, 2003
Check your gun at the gate 07/19/03 The Minnesota legislature recently passed a law allowing most citizens to carry concealed handguns. The law made the state the latest to approve a CCW measure - a proposal which has been unsuccessfully kicked around the Ohio legislature for eight years. Despite Minnesota's new pro-gun law, the issue appears to remain far from settled there. Last week,...

Letter to the Editor: Grassroots effort needed to pass concealed carry

8:41am Thursday, July 17, 2003
The Zanesville Times Recorder has published a letter to the editor about concealed carry from Zanesville resident Harold E. Newell, Jr. Below are a couple of favorite exerpts: Exerpt #1: When Governor Taft was running for office he stated that if the bill for Concealed Carry for Ohioans came before him, he would sign it. Then after he got into office the verbage was changed to he would sign it if...

Letter to the Editor: The two faces of Bob Taft

9:15am Monday, July 14, 2003
July 14, 2003 Akron Beacon-Journal Gov. Bob Taft felt compelled to write a major Ohio newspaper setting the record straight as to his position on the concealed-carry issue (``Taft: Gun bill must meet test,'' Beacon Journal, June 25). A few of his statements follow: • "I have been a strong supporter of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the rights it grants.'' Observation: Then why...

Letter: Dispatch Editor deserves being labeled liberal

9:10am Monday, July 14, 2003
Sunday, July 13, 2003 I respond to Dispatch Senior Editor Joe Hallett’s contention that the " ‘Liberal’ label merits respect, not obloquy" (Forum column, June 29). Hallett wrote that he’s tired "of being called a liberal idiot for opposing concealed-carry legislation and supporting a ban on assault weapons" and "of being castigated as a tax-and-spend liberal for questioning the wisdom of huge...

Letter to the Editor: Limits on concealed carry will take the teeth out of it

8:39am Monday, July 14, 2003
The Zanesville Times Recorder has published a letter to the editor about concealed carry from Dresden resident William Ripple. Below are a couple of favorite exerpts: Exerpt #1: I have gone from a middle-aged man to an old man trying to get a decent concealed carry law in Ohio. Exerpt #2: ...A copout that will allow the governor and the police to get a law that will make concealed carry so...

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