Gun-toting foolishness: Plain Dealer editorial

[Kolesar]

No need to ask an Ohio House Republican why his or her forehead is brush-burned: It's from kowtowing, yet again, to the insatiable handgun lobby, which wants to allow guns in bars.
In a 56-40 vote, mostly cast on party lines, the Republican-led House last week agreed that concealed-carry permits entitle holders to carry their weapons into "any premises . . . that have been issued a D liquor permit."

That, the Legislative Service Commission helpfully explains, can include, besides bars, "carryouts, restaurants, nightclubs, clubs, hotels, shopping malls, marinas, museums and other establishments." That is, if you'd like a side of lead with your steak, you're all set. (To their credit, four House Republicans from Greater Cleveland opposed the guns-in-bars bill -- Reps. Nan Baker of Westlake, Richard Hollington of Hunting Valley, Todd McKenney of suburban Akron and Kirk Schuring of Canton.)

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Equally difficult to imagine: how the House can earn any respect when -- in the face of Ohio's 8.9 percent unemployment rate, and with 1.7 million Ohioans living in poverty -- it wastes its time considering, let alone passing, a bill as lunatic as this one.

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2011/05/gun-toting_foolishness.html

[jpak]

1. K&R Is this all that the OH GOP cares about?

guns in bars = certain death

yup

[mkz77655]

2. interesting