Last month, Gov. Mike DeWine signed into law a controversial stand your ground measure, a perplexing thank you to his party after GOP lawmakers had stonewalled him for more than year on gun reform.
Now, DeWine is tucking the few proposals that he feels have the best chances of winning GOP approval into the pending state budget bill.
The ideas aren t new and shouldn t be controversial; DeWine talked about very similar reforms a decade ago, when he was still the attorney general.
Those reforms were proposed after he commissioned a study in 2011 that ultimately found that people convicted of three or more violent offenses accounted for less than 1% of the population but 33% of all violent-crime convictions over nearly four decades.