Ninj500
Member
FYI for those in and around Columbus.
PRESS RELEASE
COLUMBUS AREA OPEN CARRY DAY
Sunday, OCTOBER 12th at 2:00 p.m.
WHAT: Local organizers in Columbus Ohio will be holding a "Defense"
Walk, at which local activists interested in protesting Senate President
White and Governor Bob Taft's obstruction of concealed carry legislative
reform will "openly carry" their sidearms on a walk through the
neighborhood.
WHY: This "Defense"Walks is intended to offer Ohioans a "visual display"
of the choice Ohioans and legislators have before them as a result of the
Supreme Court ruling: open carry, with no training, background checks or
"defenseless victim" zones, as is current law; OR a more subtle form of
exercising the right to self-defense - concealed carry, as would be made law
with passage of House Bill 12. The Ohio Supreme Court recently upheld the
practice of "open carry" in Klein v. Leis. If Republican leadership in the
Senate continues to obstruct this legislation in the name of Party
solidarity, as Ohio Sen. Carnes recently put it, Ohioans are ready and
willing to exercise our fundamental right to bear arms for self-defense by
carrying our firearms openly.
WHERE & WHEN:
Sunday, October 12, 2003:
COLUMBUS area "Defense" Walk in Gahanna -
2:00 p.m. Safety meeting, "Defense" Walk to follow immediately thereafter:
Staging area: Veterans Memorial in Gahanna, just off Mill and Granville Rd.
GERARD VALENTINO - [email protected] - cell phone number 614-778-4874
and
BOB MAROLDY - [email protected]
PRESS RELEASE
COLUMBUS AREA OPEN CARRY DAY
Sunday, OCTOBER 12th at 2:00 p.m.
WHAT: Local organizers in Columbus Ohio will be holding a "Defense"
Walk, at which local activists interested in protesting Senate President
White and Governor Bob Taft's obstruction of concealed carry legislative
reform will "openly carry" their sidearms on a walk through the
neighborhood.
WHY: This "Defense"Walks is intended to offer Ohioans a "visual display"
of the choice Ohioans and legislators have before them as a result of the
Supreme Court ruling: open carry, with no training, background checks or
"defenseless victim" zones, as is current law; OR a more subtle form of
exercising the right to self-defense - concealed carry, as would be made law
with passage of House Bill 12. The Ohio Supreme Court recently upheld the
practice of "open carry" in Klein v. Leis. If Republican leadership in the
Senate continues to obstruct this legislation in the name of Party
solidarity, as Ohio Sen. Carnes recently put it, Ohioans are ready and
willing to exercise our fundamental right to bear arms for self-defense by
carrying our firearms openly.
WHERE & WHEN:
Sunday, October 12, 2003:
COLUMBUS area "Defense" Walk in Gahanna -
2:00 p.m. Safety meeting, "Defense" Walk to follow immediately thereafter:
Staging area: Veterans Memorial in Gahanna, just off Mill and Granville Rd.
GERARD VALENTINO - [email protected] - cell phone number 614-778-4874
and
BOB MAROLDY - [email protected]
