Brenna Bird – Iowa’s Attorney General speaking with our partners at NSSF. Listen to this patriot speak and if you don’t have an Attorney General in your state like this, find one, and elevate them to office! I’ll bet you wished Brenna Bird was your state AG!
AG Bird has been a tireless supporter of the Second Amendment and one of the few who has continued to follow through on campaign promises. Too many others find reasons or excuses that preclude them from actually doing the things they told the 2A community they wanted to do. Nobody here is foreign to the concept of a campaign promise, but we are sensitive to the retreat from the continual push and protection the Second Amendment requires. Put your passion, your activism, and your hard-earned money behind folks who continually and tirelessly work to ADVANCE and PROTECT your civil liberties.
How many elected officials give specific recognition to the 2A community for their support? You’ll want to pay special attention @7:40!
This video was recorded at the NSSF SHOT Show this year. Pay close attention to what is being said and the core grasp AG Bird has on the problems. Too few do. Even fewer act on it.
(The featured image is from the 2A Day IFC holds at the Iowa Capitol each year. AG Bird was a speaker at our event and took a quick picture with Gabby Franco, our featured speaker.)
(DES MOINES, Iowa) – The Iowa Firearms Coalition (IFC) welcomes the introduction of the “Students First Safety Act,” HSB675, a bill that creates a pathway for Iowa school districts to arm trained staff.
The bill will be brought before the Public Safety subcommittee on Monday.
“If you see a fire starting in your home, do you grab the fire extinguisher and put it out, or just dial 911 and wait for the fire department to arrive after it’s totally engulfed?” said IFC President and Des Moines area police officer, Dave Funk. “IFC is grateful to the legislature for bringing this bill forward, addressing issues of critical importance.”
While IFC is encouraged legislators are taking steps to protect Iowa’s children in the classroom, the existing proposed legislation leaves room for improvement. IFC looks forward to working with lawmakers to refine the bill to include:
Protection for all Iowa school districts, not just the largest and wealthiest in the state.
A training program for all willing educators.
Closing the insurance discrimination loophole, which has allowed for insurance companies to hold the safety of Iowa children hostage at the expense of woke corporate policies.
Two school districts in northwest Iowa had planned on implementing armed staff as soon as the 2024 school year but withdrew their plans once Des Moines based EMC insurance notified the districts that their insurance policies would not be renewed if the plan went into effect.
“We’ve had meetings with the schools, we’ve had meetings with the insurance companies. I’m working with the Senate to make sure we have a collaborative bill we can do something with,” said Rep. John Wills (Dickinson County).
IFC further recommends legislators use “Time and Math” when debating the bill and to look beyond School Resource Officers (SROs) as the only solution to protecting students. While IFC acknowledges the important role of SROs in Iowa schools, in particular how they provide mentorship to students, it is unrealistic to think that a single peace officer is always going to be at the right place at just the right time when evil strikes.
IFC has been working with retired Army Officer and schoolteacher Ed Monk to bring a fact-based approach to the Capitol in the wake of the tragedy at Perry High School. Monk was further part of a team of experts that led the Iowa Educators Academy, an intensive IFC program that taught more than a dozen school administrators and staff members on how best to respond to a crisis, last year.
“If you don’t stop a threat within thirty seconds to one minute, you often see double digit victim counts,” said Monk. “You want the lowest possible victim count and that means an immediate response. You can’t argue against Time and Math.”
IFC is calling on Iowans to contact their local representatives and senators and demand they find a solution to insuring school districts that understand the reality of Time and Math.
The Iowa Firearms Coalition, Iowa’s official NRA State Association, is a 501(c4) nonprofit and is Iowa’s only effective pro-Second Amendment rights organization.
Linn County Pistol Club will be hosting a sectional on March 10 at Linn County Izaak Walton. This will be a .22 caliber 90 shot match, and scores are submitted to NRA to be compiled into the national indoor pistol championship. There will also be a 30 shot team match. The program is attached with sign-up info. We will have 2 relays at 9:00 and 10:30 in the morning for a total of 16 shooters. If needed we can add an afternoon relay. Make sure to sign up early to reserve your spot.
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.
The Midwest Arms Ottumwa Gun Show will be held next on Feb 9th-11th, 2024 with additional shows on Nov 22nd-24th, 2024, in Ottumwa, IA. This Ottumwa gun show is held at Bridge View Center and hosted by MAC Shows LLC. All federal and local firearm laws and ordinances must be obeyed.
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