Who should have access to permit list?

In the days following the shooting massacre in Newtown, Conn., a suburban New York newspaper published a map with the names and addresses of gun permit holders, numbering in the thousands. The map’s publication was not greeted warmly — to put it mildly — and the newspaper eventually took the list of names and addresses off its website.

To prevent that from ever happening in Ohio, state Sen. Joe Uecker, R-Clermont County, is sponsoring a bill that would prohibit journalists from seeing records of Ohioans who possess permits to carry concealed weapons.