OPINION: ''Do something,' that huge crowd in downtown Dayton demanded in August 2019. And DeWine did. What he did was betray them,' writes columnist Brent Larkin.
designed to curb gun violence. But the package never had a chance of passing a legislature controlled by the gun lobby. And instead of using his bully pulpit to ask voters to approve his proposals, DeWine let them die.
Keeping with the unstated goal of Ohio’s governing class to follow in Alabama’s footsteps, DeWine’s signature on the so-called “constitutional carry” bill came just days after Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a nearly identical bill. Ivey said the new law will keep her state “strong.” And poor. And uneducated. And backwards.
DeWine hasn’t always doubled as a gun lobby parrot. In the 1980s in the U.S. House and later in the U.S. Senate, he voted in favor of a number of reasonable gun laws, bills to outlaw manufacture or sale of 19 kinds of semi-automatic weapons, to increase regulations on internet gun sales, andWhen he ran for the Senate in 1994, DeWine said prohibiting the sale of many fast-firing weapons would prove worthwhile if it saved a single life. “It’s just the right thing to do.
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