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‘Would you risk your children for some cotton candy at a crappy fair knowing that violence could erupt at any moment, and there’s nothing you can do about it because the Republicans in the Ohio legislature want everybody, including the mentally ill, to have guns?’

The Cleveland Plain Dealer‘s editor poses the question – rather undiplomatically – and we all know the answer:

This is America! Hell, yes!

Margaret Soltan, August 13, 2025 8:19AM
Posted in: guns

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