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-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Guns in Ohio

by Lee

Interesting news from the world of concealed carry laws.

James E. Burgess was supposed to teach people to follow Ohio’s new concealed-weapons law.

Instead, police say, he violated it.

“Who would imagine that, on the first day of this new law, that we would arrest someone for short-changing people on their gun training—and then, when we arrest him, he’s the one carrying a concealed weapon without a permit?” Col. Richard K. Jones, Butler County sheriff’s chief deputy, said Thursday.

Burgess, 68, of Middletown, was charged with issuing firearms-training certificates to students who had completed less than half the required 12 hours of gun-safety training. The law, which went into effect Thursday, requires the training as the first step for getting a license to carry a concealed gun.

Okay, so some asshat was cutting corners and issuing licenses to people without the proper amount of training.  “Aha!” say the gun-grabbers.  “This is exactly what we are talking about.  All it takes is one corrupt person to get guns into the hands of people who don’t deserve them!” Well, that would be true except for one small detail.

After receiving complaints from people who took Burgess’ class but didn’t think they got proper training, authorities sent an undercover officer to the class.

The officer said Burgess made comments during the class indicating he knew he was cutting corners and that students “should keep that to themselves,” Dwyer said.

It has long been the claim of pro-gun rights folks like me that nobody who has any criminal intent would ever bother to go and take a gun safety course and get a legitimate concealed carry permit.  This shows that I’m right.  The law in Ohio is not three days old, and private citizens turned in their instructor because he wasn’t obeying the law, making it too easy for them to get their firearms permit.

Once again, individual citizens show that they can be trusted a hell of a lot more than the radical anti-gun left gives them credit for.

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