[marktwain]

You can see that it just pains this writer to have to admit that the anti-freedom assumptions he used to take for granted are now being challanged. I almost put a "barf alert" an it, but it is much more evenhanded than the usual Democrat editorial. Probably because the Democrat Governor is a better friend of the second amendment than the Republican Governors have been.

[Hugin]

iMore than three decades ago, her first husband was murdered during a hardware store robbery, and since then, she’s fought to spread the message that putting more guns into more hands would make Ohio a violent and scary place to live.

I'm sorry this lady's husband was slaughtered like a helpless sheep. Too bad he wasn't armed.

[Rudder]

Strickland hails from Duck Run in rural Southern Ohio, where toting a gun is a natural extension of a hardscrabble upbringing.

It's good to have a home boy as governor.

Go Bucks!

[relictele]

The Other Paper: when liberal daily rags just aren’t leftist enough.

They’ve been spewing their special brand of Marxism-lite for years now with a special, erm, eye on the buggery crowd.

[sergeantdave]

“the elitist union leaders at the Fraternal Order of Police.”

“Police” are political animals owing alligiance to big city Marxists.

I’m in favor of disbanding all “police” organizations and absorbing the rank and file into elected county sheriff organizations.

That way people, through the direct ballot, control law enforcement, and the concept of the “peace officer” will return. Money for peace officers will go toward reducing crime, instead of enhancing revenue by nabbing citizens for offending some state edict or carrying out leftist political operations.

[Travis McGee]

"It’s been a tough couple of years for Toby Hoover. More than three decades ago, her first husband was murdered during a hardware store robbery, and since then, she’s fought to spread the message that putting more guns into more hands would make Ohio a violent and scary place to live."

She is looking at the world through the wrong end of her binoculars. Toby should have put a pistol in her husband's hands, so that he could have defended himself.

[mad_as_he$$]

Under duress I spent most of March 2007 in Cleveland. Stayed across the street from Jacob's Field. It is a scary place indeed - now!! I reached for my piece twice in downtown Cleveland only to find my hip empty. I had to pull a bum off of a very nice young lady in front of an upscale restaurant - literally in the middle downtown and witnessed two other attempted muggings. The Mall under the Towers looks like some kind of scene out of Blade Runner. Surreal cops and gangsters in a stand-off. Locals thought I was nuts to get involved. I will never go back.

[MortMan]

It might as well be elitest - it’s always been anti-constitutional!

[real saxophonist]

Since then, her coalition has unsuccessfully pushed for measures that would require background checks for all who purchase weapons at private gun shows, as well as efforts to child-proof guns, keep them out of juveniles’ hands and allow local governments to pass gun violence prevention laws.

Huh? Isn't 'gun violence' already illegal?

[Ghengis]

Governor Strickland has, so far, been 100% correct on this issue. It is the result of elitists like Boob Taft and George Voinivich that we now have a political chasm being filled by democrats who will hurt us in the long run have been and will be elected in Ohio and elsewhere.

On a personal note: I was in a meeting with Governor Strickland's wife, Frances, last week. She is his advocate on many social issues in the state. She was open to frank dialogue. One council member ripped into interventionists in state government, trying to wrest local control county and township officials. I am in a wait and see mode on which issues we can work with the Governor. That is more than I can say for the previous two administrations.

[School of Rational Thought]

“The Fraternal Order of Police is committed to working with the Ohio General Assembly in a productive manner to genuinely address those sections of current law that need clarified and not make unnecessary changes which substantially increase the risk of law enforcement.”

Gee, he is concerned with how to protect the government from the people. And there lies a problem.

[wastedyears]

My simple answer is no.

“Reasonable restrictions will lead to confiscation, which I hope will lead to our second Big Bang.”

[Clemenza]

The term "elitist" should be banned from political discourse. Historically employed by the left to make the point that the producers in society have the "obligation" to support the poor/the "werkin man", it has been employed by the center-right as well, starting with Nixon's "southern strategy" to attack those of education and refinement in order to score votes from Joe Six-Pack.

Populism is merely socialism by another name. We should leave levelling to the Jacobins.

[wastedyears]

***“Our organization and our members take offense to the childish comments from the Buckeye Firearms Association,” said Mark Drum, legislative chairman of the FOP of Ohio, in a press release.***

So they don’t like the truth. Aw, poor baby