| Ohio Fails Mental Background Checks For CHLs |
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| Written by Jeff Garvas | |
| Friday, 27 April 2007 | |
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Various television stations and the Columbus Dispatch are publishing reports from the Ohio Attorney General's office because AG Marc Dann announced today that the State of Ohio has failed to conduct background checks extensively. Four people who shouldn't have had licenses were identified, two who still had a license, or what equates to two hundred thousandths of a percent of the overall licensed population in Ohio. Marc Dann said that his office won't allow the process to work on sheer luck. Jim Petro, who was AG when the concealed carry law went into effect, was contacted by Marc Dann and stated he was unaware of the situation. Background investigations that should include "adjudicated mentally incompetent" court decisions are performed by Ohio's Bureau of Criminal Identification. The Ohio BCI works under the Attorney General's office. The fact remains that despite the system finding four people who shouldn't have been given a license by law these individuals passed every other single test. None of them were drug addicts, none had ever been convicted of possession, none of them had any convictions for crimes of violence, none of them were felons, and all of them took the mandatory twelve-hour course to carry a firearm in Ohio. If these people were able to pass all of those hurdles and sit through a twelve-hour course without setting off any alarms one has to wonder just how dangerous to society they were. However, we applaud Attorney General Marc dann in his efforts to do the right thing and for coming out with the unfortunate news so promptly. Fixing this and revealing that even under his watch the state had been doing the wrong thing for the past few months proves that Marc Dann is serious about his claims to end corruption in statewide politics. |