Members of a bipartisan group of mayors from around the state of Ohio are actively lobbying state lawmakers to consider a package of changes to gun laws and mental health policy. That 17 point proposal was unveiled by Gov. Mike DeWine in the wake of the Dayton mass shooting earlier this month.
Mayor Nan Whaley (D-Dayton) is a founding member of the . She says she鈥檇 go further than DeWine鈥檚 plan.
鈥淩ecognizing that last year we were talking about guns in day care centers, I think we鈥檙e moving in a direction that鈥檚 more healthy for our state,鈥� Whaley said.
was signed in 2016 but remains controversial. Mayor David Scheffler (R-Lancaster) is also part of the Ohio Mayors Alliance. He admits a and background checks can be a hard sell in southeast Ohio, but he supports those proposals.
鈥淚鈥檓 an member and a gun owner myself, but I know that we need to make some progress on that,鈥� Scheffler said.
State law prohibits local communities from passing their own gun control ordinances.
