{"id":76156,"date":"2022-01-15T14:07:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T20:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76156"},"modified":"2022-01-15T14:07:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T20:07:20","slug":"76156","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76156","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/letters\/2022\/01\/stop-the-fearmongering-on-guns.html\">Stop the fearmongering on guns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a Dec. 31 guest column (\u201dLocked and loaded &#8211; and inviting disaster\u201d), Matthew P. Moriarty called the Ohio legislature \u201cgun-crazy\u201d for proposing to make concealed-carry licensing optional. But his arguments parrot the same alarmist talking points we\u2019ve been hearing for 20 years whenever there\u2019s a bill to allow law-abiding gun owners a little more freedom. His most egregious claim was that, \u201cCriminals might be able to carry with no fear of a concealed-weapon prosecution.\u201d That\u2019s misleading.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing in the proposed legislation would empower criminal behavior. Those who are prohibited from possessing guns would continue to be prohibited. Areas off-limits for firearms, such as school zones and posted property, would continue to be off-limits. And the standard for using lethal force in self-defense would not change.<\/p>\n<p>Moriarty talks as if permitless carry is an untested idea. But in fact it\u2019s the law in 21 states, including Ohio\u2019s neighbors West Virginia and Kentucky. Plus, 34 states, including Ohio, already allow open carry without a license.<\/p>\n<p>All of these states are doing just fine. The alarmist claims never materialize. So stop the fearmongering.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Rieck,\u00a0Westerville<\/p>\n<p>Dean Rieck is executive director of the Buckeye Firearms Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop the fearmongering on guns In a Dec. 31 guest column (\u201dLocked and loaded &#8211; and inviting disaster\u201d), Matthew P. Moriarty called the Ohio legislature \u201cgun-crazy\u201d for proposing to make concealed-carry licensing optional. But his arguments parrot the same alarmist talking points we\u2019ve been hearing for 20 years whenever there\u2019s a bill to allow law-abiding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76157,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76156\/revisions\/76157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}