While Stand Your Ground laws get a bad rap, the truth is that they save lives. When armed citizens know they’re not required to run away from an attack and can act to save their own life or another, they can make faster decisions and act more decisively. Quick, aggressive action is the key to winning most violent confrontations, after all.

In Ohio, a bill that will put Stand Your Ground laws on the books will soon be coming up for a vote.

A controversial ‘Stand Your Ground’ gun bill will likely get a floor vote in the Ohio House next week and even if Gov. John Kasich follows through with his veto promise, there would be enough support to override a veto, said Speaker Ryan Smith, R-Bidwell. House Bill 228 would give armed Ohioans the right to ‘stand your ground’ when facing a threat in public places such as parks, roads or stores. It would also shift the burden of proof in self-defense cases to the prosecution, which would align Ohio with the vast majority of states. It is the first pro-gun rights bill to advance to a floor vote since the mass shootings in Parkland, Florida and Santa Fe, Texas, which prompted national protests and school walk outs. Meanwhile, a package of six gun control measures — sponsored by state Rep. Mike Henne, R-Clayton, and supported by Kasich — faces an uphill battle in the GOP-controlled House.

For the record, Gov. Kasich’s vow to veto the bill is all the evidence you need to see that just because a politician is a Republican, it doesn’t mean he’s pro-gun.

Of course, let’s also note the third paragraph of the above-quoted text:

It is the first pro-gun rights bill to advance to a floor vote since the mass shootings in Parkland, Florida and Santa Fe, Texas, which prompted national protests and school walk outs.

Is there any doubt the media is biased? It should be noted that Santa Fe didn’t spark much of anything. Probably because Texans understood that the tool with the gun was the problem, not the tool in his hand. As a result, the students didn’t start crying and preening on national TV, demanding that their every wish be catered to.

But the media wants you to forget that. As such, they want to lump the two shootings in together to pretend both generated an equal measure of outrage. They’re hoping you simply forgot, and they’ll probably hide behind a claim of poor phrasing.

In either case, the paragraph is a non-sequitur since Stand Your Ground had nothing to do with either incident. They’re completely irrelevant to the matter at hand.

What matters is that Ohioans will be able to act in their own defense or while defending the life of another without having to spend precious seconds debating whether they should retreat first or not. They can act and know that the law protects them from prosecution.

The fact that Gov. Kasich would veto such a bill suggests that he’s out of touch with his own citizens, the majority of people in the United States, and reality.

And to think, he wanted to be president.