By John Farnam
Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- This from friends in OH:
“Judges of our 4th District Court of Appeals, which covers fourteen counties in southeastern OH, are, by their own one-sided ‘proclamation,’ are licensing themselves to carry concealed handguns, both while sitting on the bench and at all other times.
They are not extending that special privilege to anyone else!
This ‘proclamation‘ altogether bypasses the legal requirements, including training and proficiency, that we peons are required to obey in order to acquire state-issued concealed carry permits.
These judges travel from county to county holding hearings. While traveling, they are accompanied by a bailiff and an LEO, both armed.
One judge casually stated:
‘The probability of an (life-threatening) occurrence is, in reality, pretty low. But the impact, when it happens, is devastating.’
Is that so, your honor?
Well then, I suspect when anyone, even one of us lowly peons, encounters someone who is trying to murder us, one could also accurately describe the event as ‘devastating!’
Yet, the term, ‘devastating,’ apparently only applies to judges. When the identical thing happens to any of us mere insignificant tax-paying citizens, it is merely ‘unfortunate.’
I am a staunch believer in individual Constitutional Rights, but government employees should never be allowed to create a ‘special class’ of citizens, which includes only themselves, who enjoy ‘special privileges,’ not available to the rest of us.
This smacks of arbitrary power and ‘arrogance-by-virtue-of-position,’ the twin plagues our Founders fought so hard to purge from the New World.
Our media, which is supposed to call attention to this kind of blatant abuse of power, sees no problem!”
Back-story:
On September 4th an Ohio appellate court ruling has revived the debate over whether judges should be allowed to carry concealed weapons at all times.
The four judges in Ohio’s 4th District Court of Appeals last week authorized themselves to carry concealed handguns both in and outside the 14 county courthouses in southeastern Ohio where they conduct sessions, the Ohio ‘Columbus Dispatch’ reported.
The order requires the judges to secretly notify the county sheriff when they plan to show up for work with a gun, but exempts the judges from obtaining firearms training and a concealed-carry permit. State law permits judges, prosecutors, bailiffs and law-enforcement officers to be armed in courthouses, according to the Columbus Dispatch.
Ohio Supreme Court and Ohio Judicial Conference officials knew of no similar orders authorizing a group of judges to carry handguns off the job, according to the Columbus Dispatch.
The order, according to the Columbus Dispatch, came about after a defendant appeared before one of the judges with a disheveled appearance, though he never made any threats during his court appearance.
In Cuyahoga County, two judges have ended up on the other side of the bench in recent months, raise concerns about granting judges permission to carry concealed weapons at all times without a permit.
Comment:
As we see, “arbitrary power and ‘arrogance-by-virtue-of-position’” are alive and well! These judges, like our ‘news‘ media, have obviously forgotten who is working for whom.
Ohio’s Attorney General needs to act!
“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the US media.” ~ Noam Chomsky
/John
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I think I’m beginning to understand now why I hear so many people saying “Ohio is not part of the United States!” But then again, with so many biased and corrupt judges on the bench these days now, this saying would probably apply to many states in this country. You can’t “vote these judges out” they are APPOINTED the position!
In a way, this is a good thing.
Since the judges have authorized themselves to carry concealed, anyone else is now allowed to do so. After all, the Constitution guarantees us “equal protection under the law.”
So, if they can do it, so can we. Simple.
This is what is wrong in our country – you have a group of people that ignore The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of The United States & The Bill of Rights and declare themselves an “elite class” and better than the rest of us!!!
We’ve seen other ‘special classes’,…feinstein,bloomberg,schumer,lautenberg,meztenbaum,.etc..etc..etc., !
these guys are really Republicans? I have mixed feelings about that. Setting themselves up as an elite does not surprising at all. No integrity, no respect for anyone else, judges are indeed a class unto themselves, just ask them!
To the victors belong the spoils? I might point out that this is really nothing new. Dianne Feinstein has long had a CCW, while judges, entertainment and business industry types are about the only ones that can obtain one in Los Angeles County other than LEOs. These type of administrative exemptions can likely all be successfully challenged, either individually or severally, simply by “standing” of an aggrieved class, I suspect. Even the Ninth Circuit, one of the if not the most liberal Federal Appellate courts has recently issued a decision stating that the 10 day waiting period after an instant… Read more »
By the way, it was also in our Plain Dealer the other day and the comments were hot.
But they also had a few idiot supporters.
And I live here.
Just wait until the cover up when a judge shoots, misses and kills the defendsnt or the victim, you watch.
Also in Ohio, ok, the guy was drunk, sleeping in his car, busted for that, ok.
Then the try to charge him with having a firearm in the trunk of the car.
So, he stopped to have a few too many on his way back from the range.
I want to see if the gun charge gets tossed or not.
they an obama will keep making their own laws as long AS WE LET THEM—see the problem?–
na i did not think you would
why do anyone , including the judges pack a conceal pistol , packing a conceal pistol make you as bad as the crooks