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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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Yet another church shooting leaves one dead, two injured
- Published on Wednesday, 30 November -0001 00:00
- Written by Jeff Garvas
USA Today has an Associated Press story about a shooting that took place in a Detroit Church Sunday morning. The story unfolds like a script on how to shoot up a church. Someone barges into the church, opens fire, people scream, and the shooter flees -- sometimes car-jacking someone to get away. The script played out again in Detroit, killing a woman, and injuring both a young boy and a man trying to protect his wife.
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From the AP Story:
DETROIT (AP) A suspected gunman who opened fire with a shotgun during a church service Sunday morning killed a woman and wounded two people before he shot himself a mile away, police said. Zion Hope Missionary Baptist Church parishioners and their families console each other Sunday after the shooting. Zion Hope Missionary Baptist Church parishioners and their families console each other Sunday after the shooting. By David Guralnick, The Detroit NewsMany hours after the shooting law enforcement spotted the shooting less than a mile from the scene:
Investigators believe a domestic dispute led to the shooting at Zion Hope Missionary Baptist Church about 11 a.m., said Second Deputy Police Chief James Tate.
A 9-year-old child, sitting near the unidentified woman who died, was hit in the hand by a buckshot pellet, Tate said. Police didn't know the relationship of the pair.
As the gunman fled the church, he critically shot a man trying to protect his wife from a carjacking attempt, officials said.
More than five hours after the shooting spree, Tate said officers spotted the suspect, who was identified as 24-year-old Kevin Lorenzo Collins, walking about a mile south of the church.Sadly, church shootings are becoming the new norm in unexplainable public shooting rampages.
Collins shot himself to death before police captured him, Tate said.
In the past we covered the epidemic of places of workship becoming criminal protection zones. In Ohio, our concealed carry law deems every place of worship a "no guns" environment unless local leadership says otherwise. Such a policy is ripe for a potential violent attack.
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