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Narrative: Anti-gunners seek safety; pro-gunners care only about rights. Wrong!<\/a><\/p>\n

Far too often when a media outlet reports on “gun violence,” the undertone in the article favors the viewpoint of gun grabbers, whether intentionally or unintentionally.<\/p>\n

It’s the same basic premise in most news stories: A shooting somewhere prompts anti-gun legislators to pass “commonsense gun control,” but pro-gun lawmakers are simply not interested in passing “gun safety” reform because, well, rights are more important than safety.<\/p>\n

The authors often even cite the misleading statistics promulgated by Everytown for Gun Safety or Brady United \u2014 both staunch gun-grabbing organizations.<\/p>\n

Such was the case again\u00a0with a story<\/a>\u00a0about\u00a0House Bill 433<\/a>, the ban on so-called “mass casualty weapons” that, if passed, would result in making nearly all semi-automatic handguns and rifles illegal in Ohio. Fortunately, that bill likely will go nowhere.\u00a0Another recent example<\/a>\u00a0was a story on passing “safe storage” laws.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of legislation:\u00a0BFA testifies in favor of SB 32, Sen. Shaffer’s bill to provide civil immunity<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What’s getting in the way? According to the typical narrative, it’s extremism. What they’re saying, of course, is that we gun-rights advocates are installing too many pro-gun extremist Ohio legislators who put rights above safety and cater to the evil gun lobby.<\/p>\n

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Real story: Gun-rights advocates promote true safety<\/h4>\n

Let’s set the record straight. Yes, Buckeye Firearms Association as a gun-rights organization cares about Ohioans’ Second Amendment rights, which also are\u00a0spelled out in the Ohio Constitution<\/a>, by the way.<\/p>\n

But we’re not only about rights. In addition to being a source of education, we also sincerely believe that law-abiding citizens’ access to firearms is essential to safety \u2014 for the individual, for the family, and for children.<\/p>\n

Take gun-free zones, for example. As has been\u00a0pointed out repeatedly by Crime Prevention Research Center<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 an organization that provides verifiable data but gets overlooked because it goes against the gun-control grain \u2014 gun-free zones are not safe. In fact, they are very dangerous.<\/p>\n

“Given that people are allowed to carry their permitted concealed handguns in the vast majority of public places, if these mass public shootings were random, 95% or higher of these attacks would take place in areas where permitted concealed handguns were allowed. Instead, the reverse is true, with 94% of those attacks taking place where general citizens are banned from having guns,” CPRC posted in a March 2024 article. “At some point, it would seem obvious that these attacks aren\u2019t random.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shooters have openly shared their desire to target locations where nobody is there with a gun to stop them.<\/p>\n

Moreover, according to CPRC:<\/p>\n

“Despite teachers carrying guns in schools in 20 states, all the shooting attacks at schools have occurred in schools that ban teachers from having guns.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Red-flag laws and universal background checks also are mischaracterized as paths to safer communities, but we’ll dive into those fallacies some other time.<\/p>\n

Yet it continues to be the anti-gun zealots, the real extremists, who insist on pushing laws and ordinances that would do nothing to actually curb violent crime but would merely punish law-abiding gun owners.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, violent crime in their own communities continues to soar, even among teens.<\/p>\n

Nikki Goeser is the executive director of CPRC and author of \u201cStalked And Defenseless: How Gun Control Helped My Stalker Murder My Husband in Front of Me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goeser has described how her husband, Ben, was murdered<\/a>\u00a0by a man who had stalked her, even writing disturbing “love letters” from prison.<\/p>\n

The night Ben was murdered, Goeser’s legal firearm was locked in a car because the couple were in a gun-free zone. She and Ben were left defenseless and disarmed, and the result was fatal.<\/p>\n

It is time to be more honest with the narrative and identify the real safety seekers in the debate. It isn’t that anti-gun “champions” are fighting for safe communities and pro-gun zealots are stopping them. It’s that the measures those gun-grabbing extremists are peddling actually do more harm than good, and they know their target is the law-abiding gun owner. Simply put, they are\u00a0engaging in virtue signaling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Having spent 28 years in a newsroom here in Ohio, taking an unbiased approach to hot-button topics was always very important to me as an editor because our news organization’s credibility counted on it. It’s a simple principle: Journalists should be more attuned to unbiased facts and less focused on an ideological narrative. That\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0objective journalism.<\/p>\n

Joe D. “Buck” Ruth is a longtime small-game hunter and gun owner who spent nearly 30 years in the news industry.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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