Vindicator Editorial: January 20, 2013
there should be no debate over outlawing high-capacity magazines that give a madman with a semiautomatic pistol or rifle the ability to inflict battlefield-level damage on people in classrooms, theaters or shopping malls…
Vindicator Editorial: November 26, 2013
…the debate over whether Ohio should enact a so-called “Stand Your Ground Law” runs amok in hyperbole… Unfortunately, its provisions loosening the duty to retreat fly in the face of the reasonable objections of credible authorities…
Vindicator Editorial: October 8, 2015
By using the tragedy in Oregon as a starting point to enact reasonable and responsible safeguards on firearms ownership and to personally commit to reducing gun violence in our own spheres of influence, some long-lasting good may result…
Vindicator Editorial: March 9, 2017
It was never going to be easy to restrict someone’s access to guns based on their mental condition, just as it is difficult to involuntarily commit even obviously imbalanced people for medical treatment. But that doesn’t mean society shouldn’t try. Indeed, it has an obligation to protect the mentally ill from themselves and to protect others from them.
Vindicator Editorial: October 4, 2017
Republican-controlled Congress, which has continued to turn a deaf ear to sensible firearms reforms such as more stringent background checks…
Vindicator Editorial: February 16, 2018
Poll after poll show a majority of U.S. citizens strongly support sensible gun laws. Some proposals call for stronger background checks with mental health evaluations and waiting periods. Some would require regular checks and updates of databases that encompass criminal histories and military courts-martial. Still others would ban devices such as the so-called “bump stocks” used by the Las Vegas shooter who killed five dozen people last fall. Such regulations would do nothing to dilute the legitimate gun-ownership rights of advocates of the Second Amendment but could make at least a small dent in the day-in day-out carnage in public places. But in the face of the increasing intensity and quickening pace of mass shootings, Congress continues to roll over and play dead. It is long past time for federal legislators to awaken and cease taking marching orders from the National Rifle Association.
Vindicator Editorial: February 27, 2018
A majority of the American people believe the right to bear arms memorialized in the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution would not be infringed upon if background checks on would-be gun buyers were strengthened, if mental- health histories were part of the application review process, if there were a waiting period before a gun is purchased and if devices such as so-called “bump stocks” were banned.”
Vindicator Editorial: March 24, 2018
…Implement stricter background checks for gun purchases, raise the minimum age for firearms purchases to 21, ban the sale of assault rifles and bump stocks to civilians. Those and other initiatives hold potential as deterrents to lessen the scope of firearms carnage…
Vindicator Editorial: June 21, 2018
Two months ago, we suggested that Republican majorities in Congress and in the Ohio Legislature are dragging their feet on enacting sensible gun-control legislation because they fear the politically powerful National Rifle Association.
Vindicator Editorial: November 13, 2018
To state and federal lawmakers who refuse to support even the most basic gun-control legislation; to Americans who parrot the NRA’s slogan, “I’ll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands”; to gun dealers who think about nothing more than the almighty dollar; and, to weapons manufacturers who make high- velocity bullets and magazines designed for prolonged firing, the following list of the victims of Wednesday’s Borderline Bar & Grill massacre in Thousand Oaks, Calif., is for you…