Permissive gun legislation a deadly moral failure

In the Dec. 26 editorial, “Lawmakers hellbent on making gun violence worse,” the Dispatch laid the blame for gun deaths in Ohio where it belongs: on the “hellbent” Ohio GOP legislators that continue to endlessly stoke the flames of gun homicide (and suicide) with permissive gun legislation.

The deadly moral failure and criminality of the legislature’s actions in the face of endless evidence of its harm is clearer than ever. Due to lack of space, I will forgo listing the obvious and proven solutions that the legislators choose to ignore. However, there may be hope: looking back to recent reports of the governor’s sending 1,050 National Guards members to help in hospitals, could he send another 72 to the legislature to pull the heads of GOP legislators out of their (backsides) when they are overcome with the urge to do something like no-permit concealed carry?

It would be the best use of the Ohio National Guard since the flood of ‘59.

David Pritchard, Columbus