Whats the chance that Ohio will pass a CCW law this year?
Charles Riggs, KC3: It has a really excellent chance. Only the chicanery and treachery of the governor has kept Ohio from having it now. He said he would sign it, then waffled and said he would not if the Fraternal Order of Police is opposed. But when police organizations poll their members, the rank and file say CCW poses no threat to their primary mission, which is to go home at the end of the day. It is the politicians and police chiefs at the upper echelons who oppose CCW because of their own personal agendas. John Shanks, Coalition: As a police officer who worked the streets, I can tell you police officers are very concerned about citizens carrying guns. Toby Hoover, Coalition: It sounds like you (Riggs) don’t trust government, you don’t trust the police and you want all schoolteachers to be armed. Charles Riggs, KC3: That’s not what I said. Toby Hoover, Coalition: That’s what I heard. If you put it before the people, they will say no, it won’t make them feel any safer. Are we sel
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