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Ohio gubernatorial candidates on gun control

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On gun issues, Ohio’s governor candidates far apart
But there is little solidarity among the candidates running for Ohio governor about what to do about school shootings, or gun violence in general. Asked for their positions on issues ranging from banning gun stocks to stand your ground legislation, the candidates offered starkly contrasting answers.

The two candidates furthest apart are probably the Republican Mary Taylor and the Democrat Dennis Kucinich.

As she stood on the Ohio Statehouse steps this month at a rally among gun rights advocates, Taylor hoisted up a 12-gauge shotgun and challenged: “Come and take it.”

Campaigning on an unflinching, absolutist view of the 2nd Amendment, Taylor continuously paints her opponent in the GOP primary, Attorney Gen. Mike DeWine, as soft on gun rights.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Kucinich wears his F rating from the National Rifle Association like a badge of honor and paints his opponent, Richard Cordray, as tool of the gun lobby.

“DeWine and Cordray have both taken some positions in the past that would place them outside the mainstream of their parties today,” said David Niven, a political scientist at the University of Cincinnati. “Instead of discussing the issue, or shouting from the steps of the Statehouse about it, both would rather change the subject.”

Niven said Kucinich and Taylor have an incentive to talk about guns because their positions align with many people within their parties.

“It’s a perfect illustration of how fundamentally far apart the parties’ primary voters are from each other that Kucinich’s F and Taylor’s A from the NRA are both electoral assets within their parties,” he said.
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Given early results, looks like it's probably going to be DeWine vs. Cordray. Of the two, Cordray has a better record for guns. It will be interesting to see if the NRA endorses him. When I first joined the NRA, they tried to give pro-gun Democrats a fair shake and avoided overtly partisan language that might alienate pro-gun Democrat voters. The past few years, they have explicitly attacked socialist Democrats, praised the Republican party as a whole, and flirted with rhetoric appealing to other conservative issues unrelated to guns like socialized medicine, immigration, etc.
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mrbone wrote:Given early results, looks like it's probably going to be DeWine vs. Cordray. Of the two, Cordray has a better record for guns. It will be interesting to see if the NRA endorses him. When I first joined the NRA, they tried to give pro-gun Democrats a fair shake and avoided overtly partisan language that might alienate pro-gun Democrat voters. The past few years, they have explicitly attacked socialist Democrats, praised the Republican party as a whole, and flirted with rhetoric appealing to other conservative issues unrelated to guns like socialized medicine, immigration, etc.
Cordray has a better record on guns, but he was forced to renounce his gun support when he moved to the office of Consumer Protection. He's as much of an unknown quantity at this point as DeWine.
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schmieg wrote: Cordray has a better record on guns, but he was forced to renounce his gun support when he moved to the office of Consumer Protection. He's as much of an unknown quantity at this point as DeWine.
No, he never renounced his support for gun, ever. Even this year he's opposed an assault weapons ban while Kasich got on the Brady bunch bandwagon after Parkland. In contrast, DeWine once voted for such a ban, now claims to have changed his mind, but we saw how well that alleged change of heart went with Kasich.

Cordray only has two anti-gun stances:
  • Wants to ban bump stocks. But so does DeWine.
  • Wants background checks for private sales. But DeWine co-sponsored such legislation with Chuck Schumer.
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mrbone wrote: Cordray only has two anti-gun stances:
  • Wants to ban bump stocks. But so does DeWine.
  • Wants background checks for private sales. But DeWine co-sponsored such legislation with Chuck Schumer.
Your list looks short.
Rich is calling for universal background checks on all gun sales. He wants to close loopholes to safeguard Ohioans from gun violence by high-risk individuals. He is calling for a ban on the sale of high-capacity magazines and bump stocks. He wants to raise the minimum age to purchase firearms to 21. And he will continue to strengthen the gun laws as conditions change.
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