Editorial: Council offers empty promises in open-carry debate

It’s still not exactly clear to us exactly what the Corvallis City Council has in mind as it works toward laying to rest the controversy over a proposed open-carry ordinance for the city.

The council’s Administrative Services Committee last year rejected calls to craft a possible ordinance to ban the open carry of loaded firearms in public places in the city. That was the smart decision; the need for the ordinance never was clearly established, and the ordinance would not have done a single thing to make Corvallis a safer place.

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