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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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Cleveland Shooting Justified Use of Force
- Published on Monday, 23 April 2007 21:28
- Written by Jeff Garvas
Damon Wells, a concealed handgun licensee from the Cleveland area, will not be charged with a crime after using his firearm to defend his life this past weekend. Prosecutors in Cleveland have decided that the 25 year old was justified and acted in self-defense.
Despite the Plain Dealer calling this the first time a criminal has died at the hands of a concealed handgun license holder in Ohio we believe it is the third case. The first took place in Warren, Ohio when a pizza shop owner was ambushed in an abandoned home. The second took place in Hamilton County when a license holder shot and killed a young teen who was stealing or carjacking his car.
In this most recent case two teenagers in the Kinsman area approached Wells Saturday on his porch and drew a gun. Well responded with deadly force, sending one of the teens running and the other stumbling to his untimely demise.
The deceased attempting to hold Wells up was just fifteen years old. Mayor Frank Jackson's gun control did nothing to disarm Arthur Buford, and nothing to protect Damon Wells.
Ironically, opponents of concealed carry such as Toby Hoover are looking past the fact that fifteen year old Buford pointed a loaded gun at someone and threatened their life and trying to begrudge the fact that concealed carry saved a life in this case. From cleveland.com:
Toby Hoover, of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, said she had not heard of any other fatal shooting involving a concealed-carry permit holder,To follow Toby's logic you'd have to come to the conclusion that a fifteen year old "kid" surviving a robbery he started is somehow superior to the idea that a law abiding 25 year old contributor to society survived with his life.
"This is one of the few where they actually used it to stop a crime," Hoover said.
But, she said, "there's still a dead kid here."
A life where he will have to deal with the fact that, in a split second decision, he was forced to choose between the life of a fifteen year old thug and that of his own.