It takes an astonishing lack of awareness about the volatile present tense, amid rising political violence in a country awash in firearms, to propose legislation that would let politicians carry concealed guns into the Ohio Statehouse. But the Republican co-sponsors of Ohio House Bill 460, state Reps. Thad Claggett of Newark and Bernard Willis of Springfield, seem oblivious to the potential lethal ramifications of mixing explosive politics with easy access to handguns. Two other Ohio House Republicans, state Reps. Justin Pizzulli and Adams Mathews, also co-sponsored legislation to loosen Ohio’s concealed carry laws earlier this year. Ohio House Bill 68, a reintroduction of a measure from the previous General Assembly, would mostly affect smaller municipalities in Ohio that have multi-use public buildings that may, for example, house city council chambers and city offices as well as a magistrate court. Nobody, outside of gun rights absolutists and the oblivious politicians they own, is clamoring for more loaded firearms at their local city hall.