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OFCC Sues City of Cleveland Heights, Ohio
The sign you see here is posted in Cleveland Heights Parks implying possession of a firearm is a crime.
On Friday August 12th, 2011 Ohioans For Concealed Carry Filed a lawsuit against the City the City of Cleveland Heights. The litigation comes after many attempts to resolve concerns over laws that Cleveland Heights not only allowed to remain on their books, but also posted signs at their parks that continue to imply it is illegal to be armed. The City of Cleveland Heights has chosen to ignore our attempts at civil discourse. When individuals have contacted them representing themselves as residents of the City of Cleveland Heights their concerns apparently fell on deaf ears. When representatives of the organization have formally contacted the city's legal representation they've been laughed at and hung up on by the Law Director. It is this arrogance and refusal to work with Ohioans For Concealed Carry that has forced us to seek a remedy through the courts.
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Canton PD Event Leads to New OFCC Legislation
When officer Harless of the Canton, Ohio police department came upon a vehicle stopped in the roadway most of us were focused on getting restaurant carry legislation signed into law.
What took place that evening has become an international viral video, calls for the resignation of the City Council president, and criminal charges against a man who is clearly heard trying to state that he has a license.
Ohioans For Concealed Carry has not just raised thousands of dollars in a legal defense fund, but we've written legislation to resolve this matter that Representative Danny Bubp has stated he's going to introduce this fall
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Democrats speak softly on gun control
- Published on Wednesday, 30 November -0001 00:00
- Written by Jeff Garvas
Gun control used to be an easy, reliable issue for Democrats. Presidential candidates could bring it up and audiences would cheer.
No more. As the party's nine White House hopefuls hop from city to city in candidate forums, no one seems to want to talk guns.
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They seem frightened of the issue. They know that most Democratic urban and suburban voters want strict curbs on guns, but Democrats in rural and Western states often abhor the idea of limits. And there is a strong sense that the tough stand on gun control cost the party key elections in 2000 and 2002.
So no one brings up guns, few even mention it on their Internet sites and when someone else asks about the topic, candidates say, "Sure, we're for gun control, but we're also for letting people keep their guns."
Such talk, say gun rights advocates, is just smoke and mirrors.
"Our members are very savvy. They know the rhetoric doesn't match the record" of Democrats on the gun issue, Chris W. Cox, the National Rifle Association's chief lobbyist, told the Hartford Courant.
OFCC Commentary:
There is plenty of anti-gun, anti-self-defense sentiment lurking in the shadows of the Democrat Party. In a recent Washington Times article discussing the notion that gun-control has become a loosing argument for Democrat politicians, anti-self-defense extremists had this to say about the Democrat's unwillingness to focus on passing more gun control laws:
"Whoever is advising them on gun control should be shot." -- Blaine Rummel, spokesman for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.
Bob Taft sure hasn't gotten the message that these national Democrats have gotten. At least the nine Dem. candidates are trying to hide their true beliefs. Not Taft. He wears his anti-self-defense, anti-gun beliefs on his sleeve.
Bob Taft has demanded things be added to HB12 that no state Democrats were even asking for - namely the "Car-jacker Protection" provision.
We have to ask why the Senate's Republican leadership is bowing to pressure from a politician with the lowest approval ratings for an Ohio governor in nearly 20 years, on an issue proven to being key to election victories.
Click here to read the entire story in the Hartford Courant.