The Plain Dealer has always been against gun rights, that will probably never change.
GOP state legislators' zeal for guns could wound Romney: Brent Larkin | cleveland.com
Before the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin Feb. 26, momentum was building in the legislature to pass a Stand Your Ground law similar to Florida's. For now, that one's on hold. Even legislators seem to grasp the danger of appearing to care nothing about human life.
But when it comes to other laws the gun lobby wants, Ohio's Republican legislators are hardly standing their ground.
Instead, they're currently giving serious consideration to bills that would eliminate gun safety training for gun-carrying permit holders, eliminate or curtail background checks for gun purchases and concealed carry permits, expand the places where concealed weapons can be carried, relax gun permit renewal requirements and repeal the requirement that a gun owner pulled over for a traffic offense disclose the presence of a weapon.
GOP state legislators' zeal for guns could wound Romney: Brent Larkin | cleveland.com