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jpierce
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Posted: Fri May 5th, 2006 07:49 pm |
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****************** NOTE: This is not a general discussion web site - even the thread for "general discussions" must be fairly related to open carry, firearms and gun rights. Please police your own posts before posting them and help keep OCDO strong and focussed. If you think the post is questionable, please don't post it. Thanks!
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Please Read
http://opencarry.mywowbb.com/view_topic.php?id=39599&forum_id=65
Before proceeding.
Welcome to OpenCarry.org's discussion forum, and intrgral part of our Internet Community dedicated to helping people understand the shifting landscape of open carry laws in the US, and providing a networking base for the open carry movement which has become a major force now in the gun rights revolution. All are welcome but we do have a few rules.
1) Caption your thread like a newspaper headline - make it descriptive so that others will know what it is a about - and use standard headline format, capitalizing only the first letter of the first word in the caption and proper nouns. Example: Federal lawsuit filed against Cleveland Heights police for harassing open carrier
It is extremely important that posters follow this format as google and other outfits crawl through our postings and determine whether these threads get visibility on the Internet.
2) This web site is focused on the right to openly carry properly holstered handguns in daily American life - all posts should relate substantially to this agenda, even if your comments pertain mainly to freedom and liberty. OCDO is not a general discussion forum on polticis, religion, the current President, etc. Take that somewhere else!
3) Keep the profanity to a minimum - and then, after you find yourselves using it, go back after you have reflected and edit it out, especially those F-Bombs! Though this area of the web site is a bit of free speech area, the threads necessarily reflect upon the open carry movement as the press and general public do read our postings. Please go back and search your posts and edit out those F-bombs, thanks!
4) Links to spam/membership sites not related directly to firearms are NOT allowed under any circumstances!
5) While you may disagree strongly with another poster based upon their opinion, we will NOT tolerate any personal attacks or general bashing of groups of people based upon race, religion, sex, or choice of occupation (e.g., being a law enforcement officer).
6) We reserve the right to remove posting for any reason, at our sole discretion.
7) If you state a rule of law, it is incumbent upon you to try to cite, as best you can, to authority. Citing to authority, using links when available, is what makes OCDO so successful. An authority is a published source of law that can back your claim up - statute, ordinance, court case, newspaper article covering a legal issue, etc.
8) General: No shouting in All Capital Letters. Use "substantially proper" capitalization, punctuation, and grammar as best you can. Use of abbreviations and acronyms should be minimized and always defined.
9) No stalking of other users. This includes creating accounts with similar names, avatars and personal information in an attempt to confuse others as to the views of the original poster.
10) YOU OWN YOUR WORDS ONCE THEY ARE POSTED! While we will attempt to help those who have a legitimate need to remove postings they have made in haste or error, my time and ability to do so is not unlimited and there is no guarantee that such a request will be granted. Therefore, post only those comments that you have considered and are willing to take full responsibility for!
11) This web site is focused on the right to openly carry properly holstered handguns in daily American life. Do not start OFF TOPIC threads or discussions such as promoting the carry of long guns. Long guns are great! OCDO co-founders John & Mike and most of the folks on this forum own at least one long gun - but due to urban area issues of muzzle control, lack of trigger guard coverage, and the fact that the long gun carry issue distracts from our main mission to promote the open carry of handguns in daily life, we will leave long gun carry activism in the capable hands of the future founders of web sites about long gun carry.
LEGAL DISCLAIMER
The law is always in a state of flux and even lawyers and judges get it wrong from time to time. All advice posted on this board should be considered nothing more than hearsay. Even if a poster identifies themselves as an attorney, law enforcement official or expert in a given field, there is no way to verify that fact or that they are correct. Therefore, any and all advice you glean from this forum should be independently verified!
Last edited on Fri Feb 5th, 2010 11:40 pm by
Last edited on Fri Mar 5th, 2010 02:04 pm by jpierce
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BobCav
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Posted: Fri Jun 20th, 2008 07:09 am |
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Folks, as there is an influx of new people and not everyone has had a chance to read John's policy regarding no LEO bashing on the forum, I'm adding Rule 6:
6) LEO bashing of any sort will NOT be tolerated on OCDO in any form. That is not what we are about. Read the following post for further clarification by John :
http://opencarry.mywowbb.com/forum3/7073.html
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Mike
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Posted: Sun Jun 29th, 2008 02:34 pm |
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Folks, ever since John's Wednesday night massacre, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre, of all the moderators, I have been wondering what is the best way to keep moderating both effective, and largely unnecessary.
We are over 8,000 members now and in the press almost everyday - and we are about to launch foreign language versions of our main page to reach out overseas to try to re-kindle the gun rights movement abroad. Let's face it, folks are reading what we write now, and taking it seriously - including policy makers.
So I have done the following: (1) Updated and tightened the forum rules above, and (2) started asking people to clean out the F-bombs from their prior posts.
So please re-read and self-comply the rules above, and go thru your posts to delete out those F-bombs and any other comments you would rather not read about in the Washington Post. Thanks!
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Mike
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Posted: Fri Feb 5th, 2010 04:45 pm |
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Everybody take a look at the rules update, including Rule #11:
11) This web site is focused on the right to openly carry properly holstered handguns in daily American life. Do not start OFF TOPIC threads or discussions such as promoting the carry of long guns. Long guns are great! OCDO co-founders John & Mike and most of the folks on this forum own at least one long gun - but due to urban area issues of muzzle control, lack of trigger guard coverage, and the fact that the long gun carry issue distracts from our main mission to promote the open carry of handguns in daily life, we will leave long gun carry activism in the capable hands of the future founders of web sites about long gun carry.
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