{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Whose Rights Win? Gun Violence, Preemption, and Home Rule in Ohio","description":"In Ohio, cities that have attempted to enact their own gun control regulations have run up against a brick wall where municipal \u201chome rule\u201d \u2013 and their governing authority \u2013 ends abruptly. Ohio\u2019s legislature and courts have blocked cities\u2019 local efforts at gun control, citing the U.S. Constitution\u2019s Second Amendment. Should Ohio cities have the right to take up gun control measures to reduce shootings and address other issues when the State and others see such measures as conflicting with the U.S. Constitution\u2019s right to bear arms?  Municipal home rule has been around in Ohio a long time \u2013 since 1912 \u2013 when 58% of the state\u2019s voters approved giving cities greater self-control by adding a \u201chome rule\u201d article to the state\u2019s Constitution. It stated:  \u2018[M]unicipalities shall have authority to exercise all powers of local self-government and to adopt and enforce within their limits such local police, sanitary and other similar regulations, as are not in conflict with general laws.\u201d The Ohio State Constitution, Article XVIII, Section 3 (1912) But new revisions championed by the State legislature in 2019 and 2022 to Ohio\u2019s Revised Code began to chip away at home rule. The revisions restricted Ohio cities from enacting their own gun control laws \u2013 essentially a ban on bans. The revisions have shackled Ohio cities from acting to tackle endemic gun violence. The justification? The U.S. Constitution \u2013 plus Ohio\u2019s own \u2013 spells out gun rights that cities can\u2019t pre-empt.   The public clearly wants action to curb gun violence: polling data by The Columbus Dispatch shows Ohioans on both sides of the political spectrum overwhelmingly want at least limited statewide gun control measures.   What happens next? If gun control advocates can\u2019t overcome Ohio\u2019s \u201chome rule\u201d barrier and reduce gun violence through local ordinances, will they try for a new statewide constitutional amendment? Did the defeat of a plan to make it harder to amend Ohio\u2019s constitution open the door more widely for new citizen-led statewide gun control efforts? With an expert panel, we ask: in Ohio\u2019s battle over municipal home rule, who gets to decide?   Featuring Zach Klein, Columbus City Attorney, David Tryon, Director of Litigation, The Buckeye Institute, and Thell Robinson III, Founder and CEO, Halt Violence, and Amelia Robinson, Opinion and Community Engagement Editor, The Columbus Dispatch, with Clare Roth, Managing Editor, The Ohio Newsroom. This forum was sponsored by The Ohio Mayors Alliance and Bricker Graydon LLP. The forum  partner was The League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Columbus, with support from The Ellis. The livestream was presented by The Center for Human Kindness at The Columbus Foundation and The Columbus Dispatch. This forum was recorded on October 25, 2023 before a live audience at The Ellis in Columbus, Ohio's historic Italian Village. ","author_name":"The Columbus Metropolitan Club","author_url":"http:\/\/columbusmetroclub.org","html":"