Ohio Republican State Senator Turns Her Back On Second Amendment

By Tom Knighton

Bipartisanship is often sold as a noble thing. The idea of Republicans and Democrats working together to find common ground, to work with one another to make our nation stronger sure sounds great. The problem, though, is when one side wants to destroy a fundamental right that existed in this land long before our country even existed, bipartisanship often means someone has to turn their back on that right.

People like an Ohio state senator named Peggy Lehner.

One by one, state Sen. Peggy Lehner ticked off the names and ages of each of the dead of Dayton.

Then, the Republican from the neighboring suburb of Kettering added a few biographical details about the nine victims of the mass shooting, emphasizing they all died in but 29 seconds.

She paused when she recounted brief details of the life of 30-year-old Logan Turner. He was a machinist at Thaler Machine Co. in Springboro. Bill Thaler, owner of the company, is Lehner’s neighbor and one of her best friends.

Too many Ohioans, she said, increasingly know somebody affected by gun violence.

“When you know someone, it’s harder to turn our back. None of these people needed to die,” Lehner testified Tuesday before the Senate Government …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms