Just two years ago a phenomenal effort led by a coalition called “We are Ohio,” comprised of members of the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police (F.O.P.) along with the state’s teachers, firefighters and other pubic and private sector workers, resulted in the voters overwhelmingly rejecting SB5 - a bill to limit collective bargaining rights for government workers. But the forces of evil have regrouped.

According to KOB.com, Montezuma County Sheriff Dennis Spruell thinks the new state gun laws passed in Colorado are ill-advised and unenforceable. And the law man is not at all shy about saying he has no plans to enforce them.

National Police Week is upon us and recognizes those law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty for the safety and protection of others. It’s held in Washington D.C.each year, and includes a moving ceremony and vigil at the Police Officer’s Memorial. I have not been to the ceremony but have visited the memorial each time I have been in our capital to find the names of the many officers I knew whose funerals I have attended. Like visiting the Vietnam Memorial I have been moved to silence to see the names of so many officers who lost their lives throughout the years.