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Summum ius summa iniuria--More law, less justice
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29 February 2012

Iowa Democrats flee capital to avoid debate on 2nd Amendment issues

via drudgereport.com

Iowa House Democrats this morning left the Capitol in protest of two gun bills the Republican majority had planned to debate today that critics contend would make the state part of the “Wild, Wild West.”


House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy accused House Leader Linda Upmeyer of failing to properly inform legislators about planned debate today on the bills. The short notice hindered Democrats from offering amendments to improve the bills, McCarthy said.


But Upmeyer, R-Garner, shot back this morning that Democrats did have adequate warning, and suggested their flight from the Capitol was an attempt to make a political scene.


“Iowans didn’t send us down here just to do easy stuff,” she said. “The Second Amendment is a question that many Iowans would like placed before them. I don’t know why they’re afraid to have a debate on a subject just because they don’t like the subject. That seems ludicrous to me.”


One bill would alter the state constitution to specifically include gun rights. Another would rewrite 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.

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To the "honorable" Iowa Democrats: Avoid responsibility, avoid reality, avoid the Heller decision and the 14th Amendment, and of course the original intent of the 2nd Amendment. 


 You'll have to come back eventually, you Progressive collectivist babies.


"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality."
--Ayn Rand

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