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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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Refuting The New York Times' Anti-Gun Bias
- Published on Friday, 02 February 2007 17:08
- Written by Mike Kinsey
The New York Times published an editorial this past Tuesday entitled A Day Without Guns. You will not be surprised to learn that this piece of anti-gun drivel did not think much of concealed carry legislation. In particular, it insanely tried to call into question the effectiveness of Floridas concealed carry laws by offering inconsequential statistics regrettably showing that a meager handful of Concealed Handgun Licenses were granted to those that should not have received them. However, what is more interesting to note is what they didn't say. Despite the fact that Florida has over 410,000 legally licensed citizens, the editorial did not cite one instance of where a crime was committed by them even by the few that were licensed in error.
As you would expect, I am not the only one that noticed that glaring omission. Today, The New York Sun penned an excellent editorial in response to the Times (which considers itself Americas Paper of Record) and actually sets the record straight:
Since the Jack Hagler Self Defense Act went into effect in 1987, crime in Florida has gone down by almost every measure there is. According to statistics provided by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, firearm murders in Florida between 1987 and 2005 dropped in real terms to 521 from 697. Expressed as the number of firearm murders per 100,000 persons, the drop is even more dramatic, to 2.9 from 5.8. That's a change of 50%. The drop in violent crime overall is less precipitous but equally steady, including drops in the rates of murder, aggravated assault, robbery, and sexual assault.
A 50% drop in firearm murders per 100,000 people!? I dont know about you, but that sounds a lot more newsworthy to me than the statistical anomalies the Times has drummed up.
The New York Sun editorial goes on to explain that, of course, it is difficult to prove that these drastic drops in Floridas crime rates are due solely to the effects of the Right to Carry movement. I think most logical people will conclude that it certainly has played a part. However, even if somehow the anti-gun zealots are correct and law-abiding handgun carriers do not decrease the crime rate, two things are certainly irrefutable from the statistics seen in all of the forty-eight states that recognize the Second Amendment and do not prohibit the right of self defense:
1) Concealed Handgun Licensees DO NOT increase the crime rate as the fear-mongers tirelessly predicted again and again.
2) The personal crime rate that could affect my family will not go up so long as I have the means to defend them.