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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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Letter to the Editor: Cooked goose
- Published on Wednesday, 30 November -0001 00:00
- Written by Jeff Garvas
November 7, 2004
Toledo Blade
No shot in the dark
As a conservative Ohio Buckeye, I'm happy to say that John Kerry may have shot our goose, but we cooked his!
Jim Kimble
Holland
Click on the "Read More..." link below for another letter, describing how the Bush administration is achieving success at prosecuting gun crimes, and how worthless Kerryites' proposals would be.
November 6, 2004
Columbus Dispatch
Criminals arent going to register guns
I think Rowland Nethaways recent Forum column on how we in the United States should treat guns in relation to the Second Amendment is unbelievable ("Second amendment askew in gun debate"). Nethaway, a writer from Texas, obviously bought into the liberals political plan of, "Lets register the guns first then ban them and throw the law-abiding citizens in jail if they dont turn them in."
His plan is to register all guns and then vigorously prosecute all gun crimes after all, guns are like cars and we register them. What a dupe. That has been the liberal line for decades.
Guns arent like cars, and what price to register them, and then what? His solution is to prosecute and severely punish all those who use guns wrongly. The problem is that the criminals wont register their guns. Most of them, as felons, cant legally possess them in the first place. That just leaves the decent citizens who have never been a problem.
The federal government and most states, including Ohio, already have mandatory sentences for use of guns in crimes. The problem has been that prosecutors routinely bargain these mandatory sentences away.
The federal government under the Bush administration is holding criminals accountable for use of guns in crimes, unlike the Clinton administration, which rarely enforced the mandatory sentences but was big on passing gun-control laws.
England, Canada and Australia had gun registration first, then banned guns for law-abiding citizens. These countries unfortunately have no Second Amendment protection and no written Bill of Rights to protect their citizens.
Maybe our Founding Fathers realized that flaw and corrected it in our Constitution. And these countries, after recently banning guns, are now experiencing the largest crime waves in the history of their democracies, while we in this country are experiencing the lowest crime rates in decades. Go figure, Nethaway. Maybe he needs to work on solving the drug problem next with his skill at simplistic solutions.
Robert A. Sicuro
Columbus