{"id":2613922,"date":"2026-06-14T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-wont-believe-what-novelty-item-this-blue-county-councilman-wants-to-ban\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T14:49:00","slug":"you-wont-believe-what-novelty-item-this-blue-county-councilman-wants-to-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-wont-believe-what-novelty-item-this-blue-county-councilman-wants-to-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"You Won&#8217;t Believe What Novelty Item This Blue-County Councilman Wants to Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyou-wont-believe-what-novelty-item-this-blue-county-councilman-wants-to-ban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2613922&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>A Cuyahoga County councilman wants to make it illegal to have a lighter that resembles a gun, and he\u2019s using a decade-old accident to justify it.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Councilman Michael J. Houser Sr. claimed that novelty lighters that look like firearms pose a risk to public safety and should be banned, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkyc.com\/article\/news\/local\/cuyahoga-county\/cuyahoga-county-councilman-seeks-ban-gun-shaped-lighters-tamir-rice-act\/95-fc3c20bc-5101-4e0d-9236-5c862954c8ba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to Cleveland, Ohio, area TV station WKYC-TV.<\/p>\n<p>Houser named the measure he is introducing \u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-feds-decline-charges-officers-tamir-rice-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tamir Rice<\/a> Act,\u201d invoking the name of a 12-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/03\/01\/city-of-cleveland-argues-12-year-old-boy-shot-by-police-caused-his-own-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fatally shot<\/a> by a policeman in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t imagine if one of our youth or our children were walking down the street holding this,\u201d Houser told WKYC while holding one of the lighters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey do create pink guns, yellow guns, red guns, and so we don\u2019t want the mistake to ever happen again, especially here in Cleveland and in Cuyahoga County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can use the unfortunate incident of what happened to Tamir Rice as a way to save other lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cuyahoga County councilman seeks ban on gun-shaped lighters with 'Tamir Rice Act'\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/01-wufNZ9m0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have $80 to buy every gun-shaped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/man-uses-lighter-open-potato-chip-bag-suffers-life-threatening-injuries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lighter<\/a> off the shelves in Cuyahoga County,\u201d Houser added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can work with our Office of Consumer Affairs, we\u2019re going to change the charter to make sure this is enforceable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rice\u2019s mother, Samaria Rice, announced her support of the legislation, as have other national figures, WKYC reported.<\/p>\n<p>Rice was brandishing a pellet gun at an outdoor recreation center when he was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/10\/11\/two-experts-determine-that-shooting-of-tamir-rice-was-justified\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mortally wounded<\/a> with two gunshots to his abdomen on Nov. 22, 2014, by two police officers responding to multiple 911 calls about a man with a gun who was pointing it at people.<\/p>\n<p>Rice was taken to a hospital, where he died from the wounds the next day.<\/p>\n<p>The police officers had been told that the unidentified man was pointing the gun at people, and believed that the 5-foot-7, 195-pound Rice was in his late teens when they arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was not charged over the shooting after experts <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/10\/11\/two-experts-determine-that-shooting-of-tamir-rice-was-justified\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">determined<\/a> his use of force was justified, but was later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/metro\/2017\/05\/cleveland_officer_timothy_loeh_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fired<\/a> by the Cleveland Police Department for unrelated reasons.<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p><em>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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