This resolution would begin a process to amend Iowa’s constitution to include a “right to keep and bear arms.” The proposed amendment echoes the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, saying “The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
To pass, the resolution must be approved by both the House and the Senate in two consecutive general assemblies before voters would weigh in on the issue. It means that the earliest a vote could occur would be 2013, should the legislature act this year and next.
House File 2215: Reasonable force/Stand your ground
The bill would rewrites the law on “reasonable force” so that a person may use force — including deadly force — against someone who they believe threatens to kill or cause serious injury, or who is committing a violent felony. The bill specifically says that a person is presumed to be justified in using deadly force if the person reasonably believes that deadly force is necessary to avoid injury or risk to his or her life.
Iowa’s current law allows potential victims to use deadly force against a perceived threat only if an alternative course of action also entails “a risk to life or safety.”
States need to begin writing serious rules regarding abandonment of civic servants of their elected responsibilities.
Immediate removal from office sounds good to me.
Flee baggers! Or is that flea baggers?
BANG!
BANG!
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Iowa House rules are that a majority constitutes quorum, so business can continue without ‘Rats participation.
Message for Democrats who flee their responsibilies: If you can’t run with the big dogs stay on the porch.
All this time and that's all we had to do to get tyrants to abandon the legislature??? Propose a couple pro-rights bills?
Freedom to a democrat -- like a cross to a vampire!
Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of 1 the State of Iowa is proposed:
2 Article I of the Constitution of the State of Iowa is amended
3 by adding the following new section:
4 Right to keep and bear arms. SEC. 1A. The right of the
5 people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
6 Sec. 2. REFERRAL AND PUBLICATION. The foregoing proposed
7 amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa is referred
8 to the general assembly to be chosen at the next general
9 election for members of the general assembly and the secretary
10 of state is directed to cause the same to be published for
11 three consecutive months previous to the date of that election
12 as provided by law.
13 EXPLANATION
14 This joint resolution proposes an amendment to the
15 Constitution of the State of Iowa providing that the right of
16 the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
17 The joint resolution, if adopted, would be referred to the
18 next general assembly for adoption a second time before being
19 submitted to the electorate for ratification.
This is getting to be a bad habit with these corrupt cretins.
Rather than stay and do their job, they revert to your typical liberal behavioral norms: throw a tantrum and run away.
Pathetic. Almost as pathetic as the so-called "citizens" who voted them into office.
So now ,.. who is the party of “No !”
Bet the a$$holes wouldn’t walk out on a bill to raise taxes.
"SEC. 15. Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the state."
...and a Castle Doctrine.
Have Republicans ever fled to prevent a quorum?
Seriously, people need to start getting serious about recall elections when Democrats pull this stunt. After a few high-profile losses, it will end.
Pass the law, let them cry.
If you want to play big boy games, you have to play by the rules.
Boofrikin'Hoo! We can play that too. Its time Dems were on the receiving end anyway.
Looks like they took a little buit out of Texas and a few other staes verbage there...
The key word being “Reasonable” or “Reasonably” determin that “Deadly Force is necessary to stop the crime from continuing...
Like I said in the previous post democrats are cowards, they would rather accept the statistical data that shows innocent people being murdered, live and legislate from those pathetic numbers, than look forward to enacting legislation to allow a better armed public to be able to beat back these brazen crimes...
Given the nearly 100 years worth of problems we’ve had with the Second Amendment under the governance of Democrats, mirroring it in the Iowa Constitution seems quite foolhardy.