'With that law, you’re just giving people permission to be able to attack people.”
CLEVELAND — Maosha Vales of Cleveland is a survivor of a vicious 2008 knife attack and shared her safety concerns after Ohio passed legislation blocking city restrictions on the size and type of knives that can be concealed carried.
“I grabbed the knife, but I wasn’t successful with that and I got stabbed over 15 times. Just imagine you’ve got knives that are bigger and bigger people are carrying around, the knife that was that big stabbed me. Just imagine if the knife was this big, and so if she had a bigger knife ain’t no telling what I would have looked like.”
Cleveland Councilman Michael Polensek told News 5 that he believes the legislation signed by Governor Mike DeWine on June 14 blocking city laws on knife restrictions puts law enforcement and safety forces at greater risk. “Folks now have the ability the carry guns without a license or training, and now people have the ability to carry all kinds of weapons, so to speak, dangerous items and so forth," Drummond said. “I would hope that Columbus would think further before they make these types of changes to the laws that affect urban areas.”
“The point of this is to make sure we don’t have a couple thousand different cities or villages coming up with their own rules. Because when we get down to the point where we’re measuring how long the knife is, or what kind of knife it is, how it was manufactured, it’s confusing. So the answer is to not have a bunch of different laws and have just one consistent set of laws.”
“Our law department is looking at this, we need guidance from of law department to see what we can do and what our options are," Howard said. “It’s concerning when you have more weapons on the street, we don’t need more weapons on the street, we’ve seen violent summers.”
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