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As we knew it would be.<\/p>\n

Police Handwringing Over Ohio Permitless Gun Carry A Big Nothing Burger<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been one year since Ohio loosened its concealed carry weapon law, and community advocates, elected officials and law enforcement alike are reflecting on the changing gun landscape,\u201d<\/span> NBC4 Columbus reported Tuesday<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA year ago on Tuesday, Gov. Mike DeWine signed into law Senate Bill 215, which eliminated a concealed carry permit requirement for adult Ohioans who are legally eligible to own and carry a firearm in the state.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The usual suspects, starting with the Fraternal Order of Police that had unsuccessfully lobbied to kill the bill, are still bellyaching,\u00a0\u201cargu[ing] that Ohio\u2019s streets are less safe \u2013 and so are its law enforcement.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Back before the bill had passed, Ohio FOP president Gary Wolske was actually claiming that requiring licensing and training as prior restraints to exercise a fundamental right was consistent with Founding intent.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cWhen the delegates met at Philadelphia during the sweltering summer of 1787, the task before the Constitutional Convention was almost insurmountable. How, in the face of the revolution just fought, could a coalition of states unite and govern nationally when individual freedom and state sovereignty were paramount?\u201d<\/span>\u00a0he asked<\/a>. \u201cOur founders got it right in 1787. Their model has stood the test of time and history. The Ohio Fraternal Order of Police strongly urges legislators to look to the founders\u2019 model. Maximize individual freedom.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Through \u201ccompromise\u201d? And means testing against this cop union bureaucrat\u2019s arbitrary definition of the proper \u201cbalance between public safety and individual freedom\u201d? That\u2019s what the Framers meant by \u201cshall not be infringed\u201d?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s some industrial-grade gaslighting right there, Mr. Wolske.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As for\u00a0specific FOP objections;<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMichael Weinman, director of governmental affairs for the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police, told the House Government Oversight Committee \u2026 [I]t would make police jobs harder by removing the requirement to carry documentation, and prevent officers from holding and patting down someone for a firearm\u2026 [and] predicted it would lead to more police officers getting shot.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s a version of the old and unfounded-in-reality \u201cblood in the streets\/Dodge City over fender benders\u201d argument the gun prohibitionists used when railing against licensed concealed carry.\u00a0 And note his concern was not for \u201cpublic safety\u201d but for officer safety.<\/p>\n

So: Did his dire prediction come true? Have any of the FOP\u2019s concerns?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s been a year now, and you\u2019d think if it were really a serious issue, there would be no shortage of examples of someone otherwise not prohibited from having a gun murdering people because he could carry it without a license. And you can bet if that had happened, we\u2019d not only be seeing headlines, but the storm crows would all be triumphantly squawking about how they told us so.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Instead, because when you\u2019ve got nothing but aren\u2019t ready to admit you were wrong and have face to save, we\u2019re offered this bit of meaningless blather:<\/p>\n

\u201cNo conclusive research yet exists about the effects of permitless carry on gun crime in Ohio specifically, but a September 2022 study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found firearm assaults rose about 10% in states that relaxed restrictions on concealed carry weapons.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s an old junk science trick, and it\u2019s no coincidence we see the Bloomberg name attached to it: Present a correlation\/causation fallacy under the auspices of a presumably authoritative name, and everybody, particularly NBC reporters, with a narrative to parrot, is sure to be impressed and not recognize it for the total unsubstantiated BS that it really is.<\/p>\n

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So in the absence of new \u201cwar zones\u201d attributable to lawful citizens exercising their rights, we\u2019re instead \u201ctreated\u201d to grumblings by \u201cOnly Ones\u201d who expect us to \u201cback the blue\u201d without backing us in return, to someone with an economic interest saying he supports permitless carry \u201cbut,\u201d \u00a0and to a victimized gun prohibitionist who says \u201cTo not have a permit to carry something that could easily take your life is crazy to me\u201d while thinking going through a similar process to getting a fishing license would somehow make a difference with violent criminals.<\/div>\n
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Crazy, huh?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we knew it would be. Police Handwringing Over Ohio Permitless Gun Carry A Big Nothing Burger \u201cIt has been one year since Ohio loosened its concealed carry weapon law, and community advocates, elected officials and law enforcement alike are reflecting on the changing gun landscape,\u201d NBC4 Columbus reported Tuesday. \u201cA year ago on Tuesday, … Continue reading “”<\/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":[13,8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order","category-rkba","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93690","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=93690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93691,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93690\/revisions\/93691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}