The Biden-Harris Administration has overreached its authority again, and even more FBI lies have been exposed.
OVERREACH AGAIN
Many of you know I was the President of the Iowa Chapter of Safari Club International (SCI) for four years before I later served as your IFC president. SCI is now calling out the Biden-Harris
Administration for its anti-hunting/anti-gun overreach on Federal Lands. From SCI:
Safari Club International Opposes Biden-Harris Administration’s Bears Ears National Monument Resource Management Plan
“In promulgating this proposal, the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture have exceeded their regulatory authorities by closing off these public lands to responsible recreational activities, thereby threatening vital conservation funding.
The plan also imposes severe restrictions on vehicle access and establishes a total ban on recreational shooting on the entirety of Bears Ears National Monument’s (BENM) 1.3 MILLION acres, a move that will have substantial economic and conservation consequences.
“This policy doesn’t just hurt sportsmen and women—it undermines the entire ecosystem of conservation funding,” said SCI CEO W. Laird Hamberlin. “By shutting down recreational shooting, the plan takes a sledgehammer to a critical funding source for conservation projects and disregards the public’s right to access the lands they help sustain. SCI is proud to oppose this proposed resource management plan as part of our longstanding mission to be First for Hunters.””
Just over two weeks ago, the FBI corrected its previous year’s crime data, clearly trying to protect the Biden-Harris Administration’s election chances this November. Special thanks to America’s crime data guru Dr. John Lott and his Crime Prevention Research Center for highlighting this data “revision”. From Dr. Lott:
A week and a half ago, the FBI released its final crime data for 2023. However, the news media completely missed how the FBI had revised its “final” crime data for previous years. For a year, the media claimed that violent crime fell in 2022. Oops! What had originally been a 2.1% drop in reported violent crime was actually a 4.5% increase. By the way, that increase in 2022 was bigger than the claimed 3.5% drop in 2023. I have previously discussed the problems with the FBI’s measure of reported crime, but you would think that after a year of using the 2022 crime data to claim that crime was falling, someone in the media would mention they were wrong. I wrote an op-ed in the New York Post that goes through these points and explains why even these amazing numbers are an underestimate. I will make one other startling point: the FBI’s 2022 “final” crime data somehow missed [a] 1,699 increase in murders in 2022.
When Federal Agencies are repeatedly politicized they become slaves to the narrative. In this case, it’s the FBI, but we also saw the new job numbers revised downward by over one million just a short time ago by another Federal Agency. Between the BATFE’s war on law-abiding citizens, the COVID mess, and now FEMA showing us how utterly corrupt and incompetent it is in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, how can we ever trust our Federal Government on anything ever again?
We cannot survive as a nation with these loony toons dangerous quacks in power. Please get out and help pro-freedom candidates across Iowa and America today! Register and vote!
Please stay Ready at All Times, and help us defend all of Iowa’s rights by donating to IFC-PAC today. Those small recurring monthly donations of $10, $25, or $100 make a huge difference in our ability to get the message of freedom out there.
Shoot Straight, Speak The Truth, and Never Surrender Our Liberties.
Dave Funk Member, Board of Directors Iowa Firearms Coalition
Rate x Time = Distance. It’s a simple equation that most of us learned in elementary school. Drive your car at sixty miles per hour, for one hour, and you will travel sixty miles. Those of us who are pilots or sailors use the exact same equation, whether at six miles per hour or 600 miles per hour.
What surprises me is that those anti-gun dangerous quacks ignore basic math and common sense and demand that kids be in total “gun-free” zones at school. Those same gun-free zones where 94% of mass shootings occur.
In the recent Perry, Iowa school shooting it took the police seven minutes to respond. Faster police response or better training is not making any difference.
As always after any school shooting, many are demanding “We do something”. The loudest are those dangerous quacks, as always demanding mass civilian disarmament. Regular readers of my weekly President’s Message know those quacks don’t care about the kids, they only want a total monopoly on power.
Yet we know what works. Every time an active shooter is confronted by someone else with a gun, they do one of three things: They run away, they get shot and are stopped, or kill themselves.
Time and Math
Time and Math. Six minutes that could save hundreds of future lives in our schools. If you are a parent, school board member, teacher, administrator, coach, cook, bus driver, or fan in the stands, please watch this short video and consider.
The shelter-in-place and “call 9-1-1” model that we have employed for over forty years in America is not working. It’s time to do what does work: an immediate armed response stopping the attacker in their tracks.
Please pass this video on to your friends, neighbors, School Board members, local elected officials, Iowa State Representatives, Iowa State Senators, and our Governor.
Let’s get rid of these dangerous and ineffective gun-free zones in Iowa.
The life you save may be someone you know and love.
Help us defend all of Iowa’s rights by joining or renewing your IFC membership here today. And please stay Ready at All Times.
Shoot Straight, Speak The Truth, and Never Surrender Our Liberties.
Too many parents’ beautiful babies didn’t come home from school in Texas. In their homes are grieving parents who would have given anything if someone at that school with the mindset, the training, and the capacity to stop the attack at Robb Elementary would have intervened in time for their child.
Once again, we are reeling from the aftermath of another mass murder committed by a depraved individual lacking any humanity, who looked down the barrel of his gun and killed 19 young children and two teachers before being confronted by law enforcement.
On cue, politicians started chiming in on this event within minutes. Let’s set that aside and approach this from the harsh reality that “bad people are going to do bad things, regardless of laws.”
If you knew a mass murderer was going to strike your school, church, business, or sporting event in the near future, how would you prepare? It doesn’t take a PHD in site security to know you harden your soft target. You set up concentric rings of security and monitoring, watching for “that don’t look right” and with the ability to respond appropriately before an attacker can get to a large number of people. It’s much easier to deal with someone as they approach from the parking lot than once they are inside. You restrict access to those who don’t belong, such as locking the exterior entry doors of your school or church once in session. Install laminate film on glass that holds a window together despite gunshots or strikes with an impact weapon like a hammer or bat. In a recent training exercise, I was involved with our “make-believe bad guy” walked right on by classrooms he couldn’t see into our had a door that was locked.
In my post-TV meteorology passion of church security, we assess a faith-based property like a criminal might and then fix problem areas. Simple measures like removing exterior door handles that could be chained together to trap people inside or getting rid of landscaping rocks or bricks left near large windows that could be used to break the window and gain entry.
Consider putting up physical barriers or landscaping that would stop an out-of-control vehicle from crashing into classrooms or the sanctuary and don’t forget medical too. Staff members, whether paid or volunteer, must know trauma medical, CPR, and AED deployment.
Here’s a news flash: The government is not going to fix the violence problem in our nation. They’ve had plenty of opportunities and I’ve not seen much progress. So maybe it’s time to listen to our warriors, those willing to boldly stand between evil and innocence who would raise their hand and say, I’ll volunteer to serve my community and help keep the wolf at bay.
Take the example of Iowa grocery chain HyVee which recently started placing armed guards in stores. I can assure you, these are not your $15 dollar an hour rent-a-cops with a walkie-talkie and segway. These are some of our finest with significant background, training, and mindset to save the day. For the rest of us, that should be a clue. You can have a helpful smile, but also be willing to flip the switch if evil approaches.
What we can do right now is work together to deter the dark forces we face, be caring, loving, and a helper to those in need but also let the bad man know that this school, church, business, or home is no longer a soft target. We don’t get to pick the moment, The Moment chooses us. Stay ready.
Nikki Goeser, author of “Stalked and Defenseless: How Gun Control Helped My Stalker Murder My Husband in Front of Me” speaks with a panel of Legislators and IFC about the tragedy she experienced as her husband, Ben, was gunned down in front of her in a “Gun Free Zone.”
Iowa Representatives Steve Holt and Matt Windschitl, along with Iowa Senator Jason Schultz, join IFC Chairman, Michael Ware, to learn Nikki’s story and consider the truth about “Gun Free Zones” and how they ultimately hurt us all. Nikki is a surviving victim of violent crime. Listen to this dialogue and consider thoroughly what the implications are when we take from people their personal choice to self-defense.
From Nikki’s book: “Today with the last day of my husband’s life. Ben and I have been married for 1 year, 4 months and 2 days. Ben has just 16.5 hours left here on this earth with me. Sixteen and a half hours of time and we have no idea the end is coming … The clock is ticking.”
Lift Nikki and countless others like her up in prayer as they contend with the aftermath of being denied a chance to save human life. This senselessness has to stop.
Standing up and talking about pro-Second Amendment legislation is the very best way to help advance our cause. Here’s the times and locations of this weekend’s legislative forums. Get out and make sure your elected officials hear from someone pro-gun!
Not sure who your legislator is? Use our Legislative Action Center to find out who’s representing your interests in Des Moines.
2-10-2017
Senator
Edler
Jeff
R
12:00 PM
Marshalltown
Fisher Community Center
709 South Center
2-10-2017
Senator
Edler
Jeff
R
12:00 PM
Marshalltown
Fisher Commnunity Center
709 South Center
2-10-2017
Senator
Feenstra
Randy
R
12:00 PM
Sioux Center
Pizza Ranch
251 North Main Ave #100
2-10-17
Senator
Feenstra
Randy
R
12:00 PM
Sioux City
Pizza Ranch
251 N. Main St
2-10-2017
Senator
Johnson
Craig
R
12:00 PM
Sioux Center
Pizza Ranch
251 N. Main St
2-10-2017
Representative
Salmon
Sandy
R
12:00 PM
Sioux Center
Pizza Ranch
251 N. Main St
2-11-2017
Senator
Rozenboom
Ken
R
8:30 AM
Oskaloosa
Smokey Row
109 S. Market,
Oskaloosa Area Chamber
2-11-2017
Senator
Danielson
Jeff
D
10:00 AM
Cedar Falls
Area Education Agency 267
3712 Cedar Heights Drive
Leauge of Women Voters of Black Hawk-Bremer
2-11-2017
Senator
Dotzler
Bill
D
10:00 AM
Cedar Falls
Area Education Agency 267
3712 Cedar Heights Drive
Leauge of Women Voters of Black Hawk-Bremer
2-11-2017
Representative
McConkey
Charlie
D
9:00 AM
Council Bluffs
Wilson Middle School Auditorium
715 North 21st Street
Chamber of Commerce
2-11-2017
Senator
Quirmbach
Herman
D
8:30 AM
Ames
Ames Leauge of Women Voters
2-11-2017
Representative
Bearinger
Bruce
D
9:00 AM
Fairbank
Fairbank Public Library
212 Main St E
2-11-2017
Representative
Bearinger
Bruce
D
11:00 AM
Oelwein
Oelwein Public Library
201 E Charles St
2-11-2017
Representative
Breckenridge
Wes
D
8:00 AM
Baxter
Baxter Community Center
203 S Main St
2-11-2017
Representative
Brown-Powers
Timi
D
10:00 AM
Cedar Falls
Area Education Agency 267
3712 Cedar Heights Dr
2-11-2017
Senator
Dawson
Dan
R
9:00 AM
Council Bluffs
Woodrow Wilson Junior High
715 North 21st Street
2-11-2017
Representative
Koester
Kevin
R
9:00 AM
Ankeny
Neveln Building, Lunch Room
406 SW School St
2-11-2017
Representative
Kressig
Bob
D
10:00 AM
Cedar Falls
Area Education Agency 267
3712 Cedar Heights Dr
2-11-2017
Representative
Landon
John
R
9:00 AM
Ankeny
Neveln Building, Lunch Room
406 SW School St
2-11-2017
Senator
Salmon
Sandy
R
9:00 AM
Plainfield
Commnunity Room, Plainfield Public Library
723 Main St
2-11-2017
Senator
Salmon
Sandy
R
11:00 AM
Frederika
Community Room, Town Hall
111 3rd St.
2-11-2017
Senator
Schneider
Charles
R
9:30 AM
Waukee
City Hall
230 W. Hickman Rd
2-11-2017
Representative
Smith
Ras
D
10:00 AM
Cedar Falls
Area Education Agency 267
3712 Cedar Heights Dr
2-11-2017
Representative
Taylor
Rob
R
9:30 AM
Waukee
City Hall
230 W. Hickman Rd
2-11-2017
Senator
Whitver
Jack
R
9:00 AM
Ankeny
Neveln Building, Lunch Room
406 SW School St
2-13-2017
Representative
Anderson
Marti
D
8:00 AM
Des Moines
Grounds for Celebration
2645 Beaver Ave
2-17-2017
Senator
Taylor
Rich
D
12:00 PM
Fort Madison
Palms Supper Club
4920 Avenue O
Fort Madison Chamber of Commerce
2-18-2017
Senator
Kinney
Kevin
D
10:00 AM
Washington
Washington County Courthouse
222 West Main Street
Washington Chamber of Commerce
2-18-2017
Senator
Taylor
Rich
D
10:00 AM
Washington
Washington County Courthouse
222 West Main Street
Washington Chamber of Commerce
2-18-2017
Senator
Hogg
Rob
D
10:30 AM
Cedar Rapids
Mercy Medical’s Hallagan Center
701 10th St SE
League of Women Voters of Linn County
2-18-2017
Senator
Horn
Wally
D
10:30 AM
Cedar Falls
Mercy Medical’s Hallagan Center
701 10th St SE
League of Women Voters of Linn County
2-18-2017
Senator
Mathis
Liz
D
10:30 AM
Cedar Rapids
Mercy Medical’s Hallagan Center
701 10th St SE
League of Women Voters of Linn County
2-18-2017
Representative
Breckeridge
Wes
D
9:00 AM
Newton
HyVee
1501 1st Ave E.
League of Women Voters
2-18-2017
Senator
Bowman
Tod
D
9:00 AM
Anamosa
McOtto’s
100 Chamber Drive
Jones County Farm Bureau
2-18-2017
Senator
Allen
Chaz
D
10:00 AM
Altoona
Altoona HyVee Club Room
108 8th Street SW
Altoona Chamber of Commerce
2-18-2017
Senator
Costello
Mark
R
7:00 AM
Red Oak
Red Oak YMCA
101 Cherry Street
2-18-2017
Senator
Costello
Mark
R
9:00 AM
Glenwood
Glenwood City Hall
5 North Vine Street
2-18-2017
Representative
Hanson
Curt
D
7:30 AM
Fairfield
Fairfield Public Library
104 W Adams Ave
2-18-2017
Senator
Taylor
Rich
D
7:30 AM
Fairfield
Fairfield Public Library
104 W Adams Ave
2-20-2017
Representative
Anderson
Marti
D
8:00 AM
Des Moines
Grounds for Celebration
2645 Beaver Ave
2-24-2017
Senator
Danielson
Jeff
D
4:30 PM
Cedar Falls
Area Education Agency 267
3712 Cedar Heights Drive
League of Women Voters of Black Hawk-Bremer
2-24-2017
Senator
Dotzler
Bill
D
4:30 PM
Cedar Falls
Area Education Agency 267
3712 Cedar Heights Drive
League of Women Voters of Black Hawk-Bremer
2-24-2017
Senator
Bowman
Tod
D
12:00 PM
Anamosa
Jones County Economic Development
121 E. Main Street
Jones County Economic Development
2-24-2017
Senator
Bolkcom
Joe
D
4:00 PM
Iowa City
Educational Services Center, Board Room C
1725 N. Dodge St.
Iowa City Community School District
2-24-2017
Senator
Dvorsky
Bob
D
4:00 PM
Iowa City
Educational Services Center, Board Room C
1725 N. Dodge St.
Iowa City Community School District
2-24-2017
Senator
Kinney
Kevin
D
4:00 PM
Iowa City
Educational Services Center, Board Room C
1725 N. Dodge St.
Iowa City Community School District
2-24-2017
Representative
Brown-Powers
Timi
D
4:30 PM
Cedar Falls
Area Education Agency 267
3712 Cedar Heights Dr
2-24-2017
Senator
Costello
Mark
R
7:00 AM
Lenox
Lenox City Hall
200 S Main Street
2-24-2017
Senator
Dawson
Dan
R
9:00 AM
Council Bluffs
Woodrow Wilson Junior High
715 North 21st Street
2-24-2017
Representative
Kressig
Bob
D
4:30 PM
Cedar Falls
Area Education Agency 267
3712 Cedar Heights Dr
2-24-2017
Representative
Smith
Ras
D
4:30 PM
Cedar Falls
Area Education Agency 267
3712 Cedar Heights Dr
2-24-2017
Senator
Taylor
Rich
D
12:00 PM
Keokuk
Hawkeye Restaurant
105 N Park Dr
2-25-2017
Senator
Bolkcom
Joe
D
9:30 AM
Coralville
Coralville City Council Chambers
1512 7th St
League of Women Voters of Johnson County
2-25-2017
Senator
Dvorsky
Bob
D
9:30 AM
Coralville
Coralville City Council Chambers
1512 7th St
League of Women Voters of Johnson County
2-25-2017
Senator
Kinney
Kevin
D
9:30 AM
Coralville
Coralville City Council Chambers
1512 7th St
League of Women Voters of Johnson County
2-25-2017
Representative
Hanson
Curt
D
9:00 AM
Keosauqua
First Street Grille
719 1st St
League of Women Voters
2-25-2017
Representative
Jacoby
Dave
D
9:00 AM
Coralville
Coralville City Hall
1512 7th St
League of Women Voters
2-25-2017
Representative
Lensing
Viki
D
9:00 AM
Coralville
Coralville City Hall
1512 7th St
League of Women Voters
2-25-2017
Representative
Mascher
Mary
D
9:00 AM
Coralville
Coralville City Hall
1512 7th St
League of Women Voters
2-25-2017
Representative
Nielsen
Amy
D
9:00 AM
Coralville
Coralville City Hall
1512 7th St
League of Women Voters
2-25-2017
Senator
Bowman
Tod
D
9:00 AM
Maquoketa
Maquoketa City Hall
201 E Pleasant St
Jackson County Farm Bureau
2-25-2017
Representative
McConkey
Charlie
D
9:00 AM
Council Bluffs
Wilson Middle School Auditorium
715 North 21st Street
Chamber of Commerce
2-25-2017
Representative
Thede
Phyllis
D
10:00 AM
Davenport
St. Ambrose University
518 Locust St
AAUW, ISEA, AFL-CIO, LULAC, QCARA, BPWD,SCFB
2/25/2017
Representative
Bearinger
Bruce
D
9:00 AM
Lamont
Common Grounds Coffee House
621 Bush St
2-25-2017
Representative
Breckenridge
Wes
D
10:00 AM
Colfax
Colfax Public Library
25 W Division St
2-25-2017
Senator
Costello
Mark
R
8:00 AM
Shenandoah
Shenandoah Fire Station
400 W Sheridan Avenue
2-25-2017
Senator
Costello
Mark
R
10:00 AM
Clarinda
Glenn Miller Birthplace Museum
122 West Clark Street
2-25-2017
Senator
Costello
Mark
R
1:00 PM
Mount Ayr
ISU Extension Office
101 North Polk
2-25-2017
Senator
Garrett
Julian
R
9:00 AM
Winterset
Farmers & Merchants State Bank
101 West Jefferson Street
2-25-2017
Representative
Hanson
Curt
D
12:00 PM
Bloomfield
Rancho Centinela
102 S Madison St
2-25-2017
Senator
Hart
Rita
D
10:00 AM
Davenport
Saint Ambrose University Rogalski Center
518 W Locust Street
2-25-2017
Senator
Lykam
Jim
D
10:00 AM
Davenport
Saint Ambrose University Rogalski Center
518 W Locust Street
2-25-2017
Senator
Taylor
Rich
D
8:00 AM
Mt Pleasant
Chadwick Library at Iowa Wesleyan University
107 W Broad St
2-25-2017
Representative
Winckler
Cindy
D
10:00 AM
Davenport
St. Ambrose University
518 Locust St
2-25-2017
Senator
Mathis
Liz
D
10:00 AM
Marion
Marion Public Library
1095 6th Ave
2-27-2017
Representative
Anderson
Marti
D
8:00 AM
Des Moines
Grounds for Celebration
2645 Beaver Ave
3-4-2017
Senator
Dvorsky
Bob
D
9:00 AM
Muscatine
Muscatine Community College
154 Colorado St
Greater Muscatine Chamber of Commerce & Industry
3-4-2017
Senator
Hart
Rita
D
9:00 AM
Clinton
Chamber of Commerce
721 S 2nd St
Clinton Chamber of Commerce
3-4-2017
Representative
Bearinger
Bruce
D
9:00 AM
Maynard
Maynard Public Library
77 Nason St
3-4-2017
Representative
Bearinger
Bruce
D
11:00 AM
Oelwein
Oelwein Public Library
201 E Charles St
3-4-2017
Senator
Bowman
Tod
D
9:30 AM
Dubuque
Diamond Jo Casino Cracker Barrel
301 Bell Street
3-4-2017
Representative
Breckenridge
Wes
D
8:00 AM
Prairie City
Prairie City Public Library
100 E 5th St
3-4-2017
Senator
Jochum
Pam
D
9:30 AM
Dubuque
Diamond Jo Casino Cracker Barrel
301 Bell Street
3-4-2017
Representative
McConkey
Charlie
D
10:00 AM
Carter Lake
Edward F. Owen Memorial Library
1120 Willow Dr
3-4-2017
Senator
Hart
Rita
D
11:00 AM
De Witt
De Witt Community Center
822 6th Avenue
3-6-2017
Representative
Anderson
Marti
D
8:00 AM
Des Moines
Grounds for Celebration
2645 Beaver Ave
3-10-2017
Senator
Lykam
Jim
D
11:30 AM
Davenport
Holiday Inn Davenport
4215 Elmore Avenue
Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce
3-11-2017
Senator
Danielson
Jeff
D
10:00 AM
Cedar Falls
Area Education Agency 267
3712 Cedar Heights Drive
League of Women Voters of Black Hawk-Bremer
3-11-2017
Senator
Dotzler
BIll
D
10:00 AM
Cedar Falls
Area Education Agency 267
3712 Cedar Heights Drive
League of Women Voters of Black Hawk-Bremer
3-11-2017
Representative
Bearinger
Bruce
D
9:30 AM
Independence
Independence Public Library
805 1st St E
3-11-2017
Representative
Bearinger
Bruce
D
11:00 AM
Winthop
Winthrop Public Library
354 Madison St
3-11-2017
Representative
Breckenridge
Wes
D
8:00 AM
Kellog
Kellog Fire Station
414 Front St
3-11-2017
Senator
Dawson
Dan
R
9:00 AM
Council Bluffs
Woodrow Wilson Junior High
715 North 21st Street
3-17-2017
Senator
Taylor
Rich
D
12:00 PM
Fort Madison
Palm’s Supper Club
4920 Avenue O
Fort Madison Chamber of Commerce
3-18-2017
Senator
Dvorsky
Bob
D
9:00 AM
Wilton
Wilton Community Room
104 W 4th St
Wilton Chamber of Commerce
3-18-2017
Senator
Kinney
Kevin
D
10:00 AM
Washington
Washington County Courthouse
222 West Main Street
Washington Chamber of Commerce
3-18-2017
Senator
Taylor
Rich
D
10:00 AM
Washington
Washington County Courthouse
222 West Main Street
Washington Chamber of Commerce
3-18
Senator
Costello
Mark
R
9:00 AM
Malvern
Malvern Library
502 Main Street
Malvern Library
3-18-2017
Senator
Hogg
Rob
D
10:30 AM
Cedar Rapids
Mercy Medical’s Hallagan Center
701 10th St SE
League of Women Voters of Linn County
3-18-2017
Senator
Horn
Wally
D
10:30 AM
Cedar Rapids
Mercy Medical’s Hallagan Center
701 10th St SE
League of Women Voters of Linn County
3-18-2017
Senator
Mathis
Liz
D
10:30 AM
Cedar Rapids
Mercy Medical’s Hallagan Center
701 10th St SE
League of Women Voters of Linn County
3-18-2017
Senator
Allen
Chaz
D
9:00 AM
Newton
Newton Hy-Vee Club Room
1501 First Ave. E
League of Women Voters of Jasper County
3-18-2017
Representative
Breckeridge
Wes
D
9:00 AM
Newton
HyVee
1501 1st Ave E.
League of Women Voters
3-18-2017
Senator
Bowman
Tod
D
11:00 AM
Dubuque
Dubuque Farm Bureau
8479 Peosta Commerical Court, P O box 157, Peosta, IA 52068
How to email the entire Iowa Senate in 5 simple steps.
1. Create a new email
2. To:
Copy and paste the email addresses of all 50 Iowa Senators (below) into the “To” section of your new email.
3. Subject:
Copy and paste the following “Subject” line into your new email.
KEEP the Omnibus Firearms provisions in the Standings Bill!
4. Body:
Copy and paste the following message into the “Body” of your new email. Don’t forget to insert your name.
Dear Senators,
I expect you to contact your leadership about leaving the Omnibus Firearms Bill provisions in this year’s Standings Bill.
I consider the Senate’s failure to act on these measures to be the same as voting ‘No’ on this pro-Second Amendment bill.
When it comes to gun owners rights, “Next year” is a message we’ve been hearing for five years, and we’ve seen where that gets us.
There’s still time to stop the same mistake from happening again. Tell your leadership, “Keep the Omnibus Firearms Bill language in the Standings Bill!”
Respectfully, [Your Name Here]
5. SEND
6. Repeat
Do this daily until the session is officially over.
Feel free to insert your own message. Just remember to keep it brief, respectful, and encourage the Senate to “Keep the Omnibus Firearms Bill provisions in the Standing’s Bill.”
Email addresses to copy and paste in the “To” section of your email:
chaz.allen@legis.iowa.gov,
bill.anderson@legis.iowa.gov,
jerry.behn@legis.iowa.gov,
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Six Minutes That Could Change Everything! Time and math. Six minutes that could save hundreds of future lives in our schools. If you are a parent, school board member, teacher, administrator, coach, cook, bus driver, or fan in the stands, please watch and consider. This should interest you, especially if you know the gratuitous harm of innocent children is wrong. If you wish to take a deeper dive, check out this IFC blog and theVideo.
Apples to apples, a comparison that we hear all the time from those dangerous quack gun control advocates. You know, the same people who tell us to “follow the science”, but who never do. A great example is that for over two hundred years New York City’s murder rate has been more than five times what London’s has been. In 1911, NYC passed the strictest gun control law in America. This was, thankfully, overturned by the Bruen decision over 100 years later. In this YouTube video, “Gun Control Zealots Hate Facts, This is Why…”, Dr. Thomas Sowell points out why it’simportant to look into the full history and not just make snapshot comparisons of different countries. As Dr. Sowell says; “Gun control zealots, they hate facts!” Sorta like President Biden when it comes to guns.
IFC 2024 IOWA LEGISLATIVE WRAP UP
One importantpiece of legislation that was passed and just signed by Governor Reynolds is the Students First Safety Act. Slightly amended from the original version that passed the Iowa House, it takes effect immediately.
In an op-ed out of The Tennessean, we find out that the same common sense eluding Iowa’s State Education Association leadership is also a problem in The Volunteer State. The author opines:
“Teachers like me are trained to educate kids. Arming us will make everyone less safe.”
It’s easy for any thinking person to take her arguments apart here:
“My lifelong passion for education has led me straight to Nashville, Tennessee, where I now major in elementary education at Vanderbilt.
Part of my studies requires me to complete countless hours of elementary education curricula, including tutoring, practicum, and student teaching, all to ensure I’m well trained for the many challenges of the job. Managing a classroom is taxing, it takes an incredible amount of focus and dedication for not only students but also teachers, to get through a single lesson.
And these difficulties are all without deadly weapons in the mix. Our attention should be on students, not firearms. Guns are already the leading cause of death for my generation – and my students’ generation – and this would only increase the risk for me and my students.”
Teachers overwhelmingly agree that guns do not belong in schools
More guns in more places do not make us safer, especially schools. The risk of a shooting increases when we bring guns into the classroom. There have already been several incidents of guns unintentionally or intentionally discharged on school grounds by school staff. Not only that but research also strongly suggests that children will access guns when they are present. There have been multiple situations where guns carried into schools were misplaced and several more where they were outright stolen by students.”
Interesting to me that Tennessee teachers don’t trust their fellow teachers with firearms, yet they expect us to trust these same teachers with our kids? Several of the author’s statements are flat-out lies.
Scholastic Clays is the safest sport in American schools and has been from its inception.
Never forget that Time and Math are irrefutable when it comes to stopping an armed attacker.
Watch this short Facebook video by IFC Board member Richard Rogers for a breakdown of our legislative victories in this session here. Richard will have more details on those victories shortly.
Please stay Ready at All Times, and help us defend all of Iowa’s rights by joining or renewing your IFC membership here today.
Shoot Straight, Speak The Truth, and Never Surrender Our Liberties.
Yes, Gun-Free School Zones Are Unconstitutional! With the help of Mark Smith, on the YouTube channel Four Boxes Diner, I’ll explain why.
Those anti-gun dangerous quacks would have you believe that under the Heller decision, and later affirmed under the Bruen decision, schools are included in the “sensitive spaces” illustration. Nothing could be further from the truth. Only three sensitive spaces were identified by the Supreme Court:
polling places
legislative bodies (the US Capitol Building)
some courts (generally considered the US Supreme Court)
HISTORICAL FOUNDATION
Importantly, the historical record of 1791 at the adoption of the US Constitution and its Bill of Rights must be considered. At the time, only a few colleges regulated the possession of arms by students. The reason for that was that many college students were still not of majority age. That is, they were not over the age of eighteen, able to enter into contracts, vote, or own real property, for example. Mr. Smith points out that Alexander Hamilton entered Kings College in New York City at the age of sixteen! It was very common at the time of our nation’s founding that some college students entered as young as fourteen years of age.
Those 1791 colleges, and their administrators, were acting in the role of loco parentis, Latin for “in the place of a parent”. No sane person that I know of has ever argued against a parent’s right to control the use of firearms by their children. In their loco parentis role, those administrators could regulate the possession of arms by their students under their care and supervision. But clearly at that time, the very same Americans who fought off the British King and gave us the Bill of Rights -including the Second Amendment – would not have prohibited any adult from bearing arms at, near, or in schools.
PRESENT DAY
More importantly, nearly all college students in the present day are over the age of eighteen when they enter college. They are, therefore, legal adults. This prohibits the colleges from regulating their possession of arms! There is no historical evidence that law-abiding adults cannot possess arms in and around schools or school zones, whether they be colleges or your local elementary school.
Mr. Smith goes on to give us a very exhaustive explanation of why that legal issue matters. You can watch his video about this very subject here.
TIME FOR ACTION BY THE IOWA SENATE
IFC and our partners at the NRA are still involved in the legislative fight at the Iowa Senate on important legislation involving the Students First Safety Act, and the Gadsden License Plate initiatives. Please go over to the IFC Action Alert page and use it to reach out to your State Senator encouraging him or her to support these bills.
Personally, I find it repulsive that in the last three years, the Iowa Senate has ignored Iowan’s demands to act on these important issues. They seem to forget that in 2022, 65.17% of Iowa voters (in a bi-partisan vote) supported the Freedom Amendment. Yet the Senate continues to refuse to act to clean up the current Iowa Code to bring it in line with the Bruen decision and the 49th Amendment to the Iowa Constitution.
Yes, it’s obvious from my arguments at the beginning of this President’s Message that the need for the Student First Safety Act should be moot. However, getting things done legislatively is faster than waiting for the US Supreme Court to rule on something that could take a decade to get done. Frankly, when it comes to our kids, Time and Math proves we can’t wait.
Help us defend all Iowan’s rights by joining or renewing your IFC membership here today. And please stay Ready at All Times.
Shoot Straight, Speak The Truth, and Never Surrender Our Liberties.
WHAT BILLS HAS IFC HELPED TO KILL SO FAR THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION?
What bills has IFC helped to kill so far this legislative session you ask? Here’s the shortlist:
HF2297 – Gun confiscation (“Red Flag”) bill
HF2129 – Money for a study on “Prevention of Weapons Violence”
HF488 – State registration requirement for personally made Firearms and “unfinished frames and receivers”
SF2085 – Required private transfers of pistols and revolvers to go through FFLs and NICS
SF2080 – Ban on standard capacity magazines
SF2253 – Would have created a “Mental Health Firearm Safety Fund”
This is just a sprinkling of what the anti-gun Dangerous Quacks on the left have introduced this session, reminding people that the other side is continually trying this stuff — and we’re continually working to stop it. The anti-gun Dangerous Quacks also forgot to read the Iowa Constitution and its newest Amendment: #49 – The Freedom Amendment, which prohibits any of the proposals outlined above. That Amendment would not have happened if it were not for the combined efforts of IFC, our members, and ultimately over 65% of Iowa voters.
Students First Safety Act update
IFC is hard at work trying to bring some urgency and economic reality improvements to the Students First Safety Act, Iowa HSB 675. Although its introduction is a step in the right direction, Iowa does not need another government empire-building program, which will take years to implement, to create an armed defense for all Iowa schools. Instead, as you know, Time and Math mandate an immediate response to an armed attacker to minimize the casualties.
Brownells’ National 2A Day — 2/22/2024!
National 2A Day is coming up rapidly and Iowa’s own Brownells.com/2ADay is not just hosting events around the country, but is donating 4% of all sales the week of February 20-25th to several organizations, including IFC!
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