The Toledo Free Press is reporting that although a man with a temporary emergency concealed handgun license was not charged with a crime, police have seen fit to confiscate and hold his handgun (despite an Ohio law which suggests such action by the Toledo police officers was illegal).
What the state giveth, the state can take away--and they have a voluntary registration list with which to do it.
It also allows them to dictate the rules for carrying, most importantly including where they say you may not.
What other right must we petition for permission and pay for the "privilege" of exercising?
Unfortunately, most of the activist gun owner community has been seduced into believing this is progress. They have allowed the Constitutional bright line of "shall not be infringed" to be dimmed and diffused.
Only perceived "radicals" commit the heresy of suggesting that what we have might not be the progress everyone claims it is. Those who do must be prepared to endure wrath and scorn. The illusion of the Emperor's clothes is strong--all his ministers tell us how fine they are.
As my pal Steiger says (about much more than just this issue), "We've been conned. Bare-ass naked in the public square conned."
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