| Cincinnati Enquirer: ''Concealed carry: Bad law - Legislature must act'' |
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| Written by Jeff Garvas | |
| Thursday, 17 April 2003 | |
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The legal repartee before the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday over the state's concealed carry law revealed the two key points in this contentious issue. • "The police, the state, the legislature have the right to regulate the right to bear arms," said Justice Maureen O'Connor. "It's not an unfettered right." • "When you are exercising your constitutional right, you shouldn't be arrested for it," said William Gustavson, the Cincinnati attorney representing four plaintiffs challenging the existing law. The current law allows people to carry concealed firearms under certain conditions, but the only way to find out if you meet those conditions is to get arrested, go to court and prove it. That is contrary to the basic Constitutional assumption that a person is innocent until proven guilty. Gustavson and his clients are right. The law is bad and the Supreme Court should uphold the rulings of two lower courts and throw it out. Click here to read the entire editorial in the Cincinnati Enquirer. This is the Enquirer's second pro-CCW editorial, the first having been published on 1/2/02 following the Hamilton County constitutionality ruling. |