Posted March 23, 2017 5:30 pm by Comments

By James England

DES MOINES, IOWA — The Iowa Senate is currently deliberating a bill passed by the House which would enact ‘Stand Your Ground’ as an affirmative defense for Iowans who defend their lives from an attacker.

‘Stand Your Ground’ refers to conditions in the law that roughly specify so long as an individual has a legal right to be in a certain place, he has no duty to retreat from a perceived threat. This is the direct opposite of, for instance, Massachusetts law which insists that a person must exhaust every opportunity to retreat prior to using deadly force.

According to the Des Moines Register, the bill would also allow for those under the age of 21 of possessing a pistol. It would allow for five year issuance of pistol purchase permits — rather than the current one-year permits. And, it would enable youth to shoot under supervision.

“This is a civil-rights bill,” said Barry Snell, executive director of the Iowa Firearms Coalition, who expressed full support for the legislation.

Opponents argue that this sort of legislation will result in, well, what they usually warn with any legislation that enables more people to use guns. It will result in children carrying guns, people …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation

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