Notes from the Resistance
Rob Sand is a gun-toting Christian from rural Iowa who goes deer hunting, drives a white Ford F-150 pickup, and opens speeches by quoting the Bible. He is also a rising Democratic star whose run for governor is spooking Republicans in the ruby red state. [More]
Here he is congratulating a doctrinaire gun-grabber on her win.
What kind of stupid Fudd would you have to be to be taken in by this fraud?
[Via bondmen]
Democrats break GOP’s supermajority in Iowa after flipping state Senate seat [More]
Democrat Catelin Drey got 55% of the vote. She’s the founder of Moms for Iowa, which proclaims on its website:
We are passionate about curbing gun violence…
So Iowa gun owners should have known she’s a danger.
Republican opponent Christopher Prosch was described by Iowa Firearms Coalition as a “pro-Second Amendment candidate.” Their interview video has generated a whopping 81 views at this writing with no apparent shares. Its posting on X.com garnered one repost.
If gun owners don’t get involved — meaningfully — we can kiss the midterms goodbye. Don’t believe “the”gunfluencer” hype about Democrats being out of money, because the special interests it represents aren’t, or the party being too far left, because the dumbed-down, outraged, resentful and self-entitled constituents aren’t.
Apathy has always been a greater enemy than the antis, and if it continues, count on those who never lifted a finger to bitch and moan the loudest.
“We” sure do put a lot of deserved blame on Republicans. When a good one comes along, who helps ensure self government through representation?
This NSSF-supported law protects the privacy and sensitive financial information of people purchasing firearms and ammunition in Iowa. [More]
I sure am seeing a lot of breathless hyperbole over blocking Merchant Category Codes…
So they’re switching from NICS to BIDS…?
And maybe change that to “law-abiding people.” Criminals already have those advantages.
[Via Jess]
There are no places evil can’t go. Limited, though, are your choices to stand up against evil and stop it. Ideas are being discussed everywhere about how to protect our schools. The insurance companies have threatened to drop school coverage on schools that protect children and staff by exercising the right to self-defense with a firearm. [More]
Which insurance companies? Name names.
Are they the only ones, or the only ones the schools are doing business with? What about state rules saying if you want to do business here you can’t discriminate?
“So, a plurality of Republican caucusgoers … say, ‘More please, I like this Hitler language,’” he noted. [More]
Told ya– the guy’s an avatar.
Jake Tapper, David Frum , and HuffPo say it, I believe it, that settles it.
Funny, whose language THEY parrot…
Could evangelical leader’s endorsement upend Trump’s massive lead before Iowa’s caucus? [More]
“Vander Plaats ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Iowa in 2002, 2006, and 2010. He was the party’s nominee for lieutenant governor in 2006, losing to Democrat Patty Judge.”
And his organization doesn’t think the right to keep and bear arms and immigration are important enough to feature as “Policy Issues.”
How they believe leaving core constituents out will help advance the issues they do care about is left unsaid. Which suits the Democrats just fine.
Looks like Faux News and the Vichycons are doing their best to listen to losers and keep the Stupid Party stupid.
Why?
The new amendment reads, “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The sovereign state of Iowa affirms and recognizes this right to be a fundamental individual right. Any and all restrictions of this right shall be subject to strict scrutiny.” [More]
I thought the Bruen standard did away with means-end scrutiny and deferred to a “historical understanding”…?
[Via Michael G]
Iowa City is taking a stance against a proposed gun rights amendment to the Iowa Constitution that is up for a vote in next week’s midterms. City Council members passed a resolution opposing Public Measure Number One earlier this week. [More]
Proudly self-billed as “A UNESCO city…”
Not to mention a Bloomberg one…
I wonder if that’s why 76% of the cities in the U.S. are safer…?
[Via Jess]
