"For "rabid elitist antigun prohibitionists," the newspaper published some pretty cogent responses to the VT shooting:
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070422/OPINION03/704210311"
Context:
Those 'civilian' writers, including Richard Iott, are known to me either personaly or as regular writers in defense of gun ownership via op-ed "Letters to the Editor". Those opinions from citizens were published all in one day, in one column, taking up one quarter, at most, of the daily Editorial page.
Those letters from readers do not reflect the newspaper's long term, continuous, and consistent opposistion to gun ownership. They are there, because some appearance of even-handed readership response is expected. The cited replies to Blade editorials are most definitely not reflective of the paper's own policy.
As well, due to my involvment with Ohio CCW issues; plank-owner in organized opposistion to the passage of Toledo's city-specific gun laws [which the Blade fervently supported]; personal conversations with their editors and assorted reporters; and years of facing the director[Toby Hoover]of the very active Ohio anti-gun org --- then my best estimate of the newspaper's policy is 'anti-gun, to the point of total prohibition'.
