Three years later, the Ohio Supreme Court will wade into a thorny issue that has the National Rifle Association, Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, and Ohioans for Concealed Carry aligned against cities. The court must decide whether the state can tell local governments whether they can regulate guns on their own property, the latest battle in the wider war over local home-rule authority.But I note the conviction still stands.
Keep an eye on this, because it will tell us if we need to covertly, rather than openly defy monster-enabling local edicts.
And keep in mind that state preemption is a two-edged sword. Yes, it eliminates the "patchwork quilt" effect of impossible-to-follow "laws," but the state has no moral authority to infringe on liberty, either.
There's only one person who can make such a choice for me, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't convene in Toledo or Columbus, or wear a black robe.
"Castle Doctrine" in Committee
In another Ohio development, NRA tells us affirmative defense of self-defense legislation is scheduled for a vote in the Senate Judiciary Criminal Justice Committee on Wednesday. Ohio gun owners, please take a moment to email committe members and tell them you expect them to support Senate Bill 184.
Here, I'll make it easy for you. Just copy and paste these edresses into your email:
sd18@mailr.sen.state.oh.us; sd08@mailr.sen.state.oh.us; senatormason@maild.sen.state.oh.us; sd10@mailr.sen.state.oh.us; sd12@mailr.sen.state.oh.us; fedoroffice@maild.sen.state.oh.us; sd31@mailr.sen.state.oh.us; senatorsmith@maild.sen.state.oh.us; sd16@mailr.sen.state.oh.us
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There's only one person who can make such a choice for me, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't convene in Toledo or Columbus, or wear a black robe.
Now you're just dropping hints for a birthday present aren't you?
FWIW, I got an e-mail back from a legislative aide to Tim Grendell, excerpted below:
"To date, we have had five hearings on SB 184, and we plan on hearing the bill again next week. This is important legislation, and we want to make sure that we get it right. That means that it is taking a little longer than we originally anticipated. However, we are dedicated to getting this bill passed out of committee as soon as possible, which we hope will be as early as next week."
Buckeye Firearms Association doesn't have anything on the front page on the hearing that I can see. I'll keep an eye and an ear open.
Doesn't provision of an 'affirmative defense' to some offense or other turn on its head the concept of innocent till proven otherwise?
TX has multiple offenses on the books that provide opportunity for affirmative defenses. Just seems bass ackwards.
It would if it replaced it, instead of supplemented it.
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