The state of Ohio is going to comply with the Real Id Act of 2005, which came out of the 9/11 Commission and requires all drivers to be issued a "safe ID" driver's license to make it more difficult to counterfeit them.
Almost half the states are refusing to comply. So, why is Ohio putting us through the expense, the excessive documentation and the waiting that this will require when, given the spotty compliance by the states, the feds will have to back off of it anyway?
And if making things harder for terrorists is our objective, why are our state and federal legislators busy allowing guns in more and more places and refusing to put more limits on their sale, while expecting ordinary citizens to have their papers in order.
We will be no safer because of these "enhanced security" licenses than we are because Grandma has to take off her shoes at the airport.
Let our legislators in Columbus know that we will no longer allow them to control and restrict law-abiding citizens in the name of security while they allow gun merchants to enable the terrorists, the criminals and the mentally deranged among us to wreak havoc on those same citizens. It's time to direct the solutions where the problems are.
Anna Maneage, Walton Hills