Dewine urged to uphold Second Amendment, sign concealed carry bill

I am writing with regard to a Dec. 28 Dispatch editorial published in the Canton Repository “Lawmakers hellbent on making gun violence worse.”

In the “world of rules” you refer to, needing a license to drive a car, hunt deer, and take fish from Ohio waters, I fully agree with, as license fees help pay the costs of maintaining roads and funding the ODNR to keep our state a viable place for wildlife to flourish, while giving the residents who wish to participate an environment to do so. It doesn’t require a constitutional obligation to do so, either.

Regarding the concealed carry law that awaits the governor’s signature, we must realize that the right to defend ourselves is granted by the Second Amendment to the Constitution. It is clearly stated that this right “shall not be infringed” – period.

Any need for a license will not be adhered to by those who have bad intent. The law-abiding citizen who is only wanting to have a chance of surviving a situation where his/her life may be in danger is no threat to anyone other than the “bad guy.”

I highly urge the governor to sign this bill into law.

Randy J. Lindower, New Philadelphia