Posted on 02/29/2012 9:04:22 AM PST by DCBryan1
Iowa House Democrats left the Capitol in protest Wednesday, saying they were betrayed by the Republican majority that decided this morning to debate controversial gun rights legislation.
“We’ve been doubled-crossed,” said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, D-Des Moines, just before he lead his 40-member caucus out of the Statehouse.
Democrats had been led to believe a constitutional amendment spelling out Iowans’ right to bear arms and the so-called “Castle Doctrine” giving Iowans the right to defend themselves would not be debated Feb. 29, McCarthy said.
However, he was told after both parties went into their routine closed-door meetings to discuss pending legislation that the gun bills would be debated “whether we like it or not.”
“I said ‘You will not be debating it today,’” McCarthy said at about 9:45 a.m. “We’ve been betrayed. We are in protest leaving the building now.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thegazette.com ...
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?
Do you suppose the founders envisioned representaives avoiding the chambers so the government would be paralyzed?
Ther Republicans should be screaming about the Dims “shutting down government”.
THIS IS WHY IT IS IMPORTANT FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO RUN, AND EVEN MOVE INTO DEMONCRAT UN-CONTESTED AREAS!
MESSAGE TO IOWA REPUBLICANS: Shove this down their throats, put an emergency provision in it, and pass it. Hell, while you are at it, pass Constitutional Carry! Legalize all NFA weapons, tell ATF to go get bent!
BANG!
WTH?
These people are not doing their job.
They are an embarrassment to America
and the Constitution.
BANG!
Additional coverage from Gannett Rag - link only...
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.
Recalls for this crap should be mandated. Whatever it takes.
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!
Dear Iowa GOP:
Take a page out of recent Democrat Tactics Handbook here:
Deem it “passed” and make a public statement that “We Have to Pass It First in order to Find Out What’s In It”.
Then stand back and put your umbrellas up as dem heads start popping in outrage...
Be like the Nike commercial: “JUST DO IT!”
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.
Flee baggers! Or is that flea baggers?
Or, maybe “Free” beggars
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 !”
“These people are not doing their job.
They are an embarrassment to America
and the Constitution.”
What do you expect they are Democrats.
“Recalls for this crap should be mandated. Whatever it takes.”
How about just implementing the kind of work rules that most businesses operate under? Your absences have to be excused or you loose your job. Guys like McCarthy who are RAT leaders need to have a serious attitude adjustment.
But then look at their current “role model” Debbie Washerwoman-Shitz!
It’s “Flee SCUM Baggers.”
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