Transcript, just in case
Oh, yeah, he is not for gun control, just reasonable gun control:
"Canton City Council President Alan Schulman: from AM 640 WHLO News
You know we are all honored and priveledged to serve the uh city and it's citizens and there has been a recent attention drawn to one of our police officers regarding the carrying a concealed weapon that drew many out of town emails.
I have been as a lawyer on both sides of police issues. I have represented true victims of police abuse and I have defended
police officers against unwarranted charges challenging their behavior.
I don't intend to make any comments tonight about this particular incident or this particular police officer or the person
that was stopped.
But I did want to make a comment reflecting the out of town emails that we have all received from people who do not live
in this community, do not know our police, do not know the firefighters, do not know our public servants, our employees, know nothing about the city of Canton. But because a video went viral on the internet they are excoriating the city of Canton out of this particular incident and their excoriating our police force, it's conduct and our city. I take very strong exception to what I have read, what I have heard from out of towners making comments about our city.
This is, in my judgement, a sympton of this arming, literally the arming of our population with handguns and the flooding of
handguns into our communities. These laws that allow our citizens to carry a concealed weapon at a university, in a school, in a bar where a liquor is served, in automobiles in the worst part of our neighborhoods where there is high crime, drugs, prostitution and somebody is packing a ruger at 1:30 in the morning. That's not acceptable in our society.
And I told one caller who called me from Phoenix, AZ yesterday who complained about our police and this particular incident,
I said to him, "You want to know something my friend, you can blame our city, but you're next." Because as long as these laws permit people to carry weapons under the worst of circumstances and in the worst situations there are deaths waiting to happen, either police officers or citizens who think by arming themselves they are somehow safe.
So, my only remarks tonight are designed to those out of town people who are complaining about our police department
and our city. Believe me, if you allow the kind of carry concealed weapons laws that are in existanc in Ohio and are all over the United States you're going to have the same problems over and over again and deaths will result.
Finally, I, just for those people who are going to say that I am against guns, I am not against weapons, I am not against hand guns, I am not against people that hunt with weapons, but we all should believe in common sense, reasonable gun control laws that don't allow this kind of thing to happen at 1:30 in the morning in a crime ridden neighborhood with prostitution and drugs when we sit every week and listen to our citizens step forward saying "we want to be protected." Well, we are being protected. And I know the police department and the safety director and the mayor will investigate this thoroughly and thats one of the benefits of having a video that allows our citizens some transparency as to what happens in these stops. But these laws are completely insane."
Nope, he is not against handguns, just against anyone other than police to have them and carry them ... especially at 1:30 AM!
Look out, citizens of Canton, your City Council DOES NOT support your 2A rights!