Ohio Statehouse leaders are struggling with the latest mass shootings in New Albany, and the home speaker expresses confusion how to deal with this kind of attacks. Democrats say that a good beginning would be the provisions on the safety of weapons.
A suspicious killer in a mass shooting at the workplace on Tuesday evening before Columbus was found in the center of Columbus on Wednesday morning, according to the police in New Albany. Bruce Reginald Foster III was accused of licking the Ferrings of a sharpened murder.
He was an employee of KDC/One, a cosmetics manufacturer in which shooting took place, according to the police.
This violence at the workplace reminded the representative of Josh Williams, R-Silvania, with a scar event from two decades ago. At the Jeep plant in Toledo in 2005, an dissatisfied employee shot his boss and many others before he took his life.
“These are tragic experiences because my brother worked there at that time, and I had to call and make sure my brother is safe,” said Williams.
The police say that the foster motif is not clear – but for Williams it is clear that something must change.
“We studied this topic when you have mass shooting, when you have more than one victim during deliberate shooting – should there be requirements, how are cases charged?” He said.
He thought about creating a separate mass shooting crime, so if there are many victims, you can also be accused of an additional crime. This can then automatically start the state to go to the death penalty.
“They are qualifying for the death of matters that should be prosecuted in the full scope of law,” added the representative. “The death penalty must not only be available, but enforced. It should be accelerated, he should be enforced, and if I had my way – it would be television. “
But democrats and a handful of Republicans argued that the state should work on the front to prevent such attacks.
“Each tragedy is one too much when it comes to weapons violence, if there are things that we can do to prevent and facilitate law enforcement authorities, also perform our work, protect public safety and keep weapons from our streets,” said the minority leader Home Allison Russo, D-Upper Arlington.
Russo argued that her club has been introducing bills for years that would fight a crime from weapons, such as extended control of the past to buy firearms. But the tragedy after the tragedy of the policy around the weapon only relaxed.
“We have many people who have access to weapons that should not have access to weapons, and some of this results from some rules that have been transferred here at a state house,” she continued.
GOP leadership does not agree.
“These kinds of things that happen; Can they be completely prevented? “Said Matt Huffman, Marshal of the House in Ohio. “I would like … I don’t think I have the answer to it.”
Huffman said, unfortunately, “you can’t stop every tragedy.”
Russo argued that this kind of shooting will act unchanged from legislators.
This article was Originally published on News5Cleveland.com and is published at the Ohio Capital Journal on the basis of a content division agreement. Unlike other OCJ articles, it is not available for free publication by other information service, because it is owned by WSPs at Cleveland.
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