You know what’s funny in the aftermath of near-fatal shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords? Republican lawmakers who propose incredibly lax gun control laws and then refer to them as Give a Handgun to a Schizophrenic Bills. That’s what happened in Iowa and it was caught on an open mic.
Republicans this week revived a proposal that would allow Iowans to carry weapons in public without permission from a sheriff, without background checks and without training requirements.
The legislation, House Study bill 219, is known as “Alaska carry,” which is law in Alaska, Arizona, Vermont and Wyoming.
Rep. Jeff Kaufmann (R-Wilton) made the comment about the bill creating open season for schizophrenics. He has an email address if you are interested in contacting him: jeff.kaufmann@legis.state.ia.us
I believe a “Wanker of the Day” is someone who massages information, jerking on it until it erupts in an ejaculation of disinformation. Accidentally telling the truth deserves a new meme… something like “Flasher of the Day.”
I think this needs to be quoted here:
Just read that bit of the transcript and understand what this all means.
Here we have a group of Republicans discussing a Republican sponsored bill that will open up gun laws in their state to an astounding level. Anyone can concealed carry without a permit – no background check, no wait list, nothing.
And how do they characterize it? “Something nobody wants to do. Some dirty, nasty job.” and “The crazy, give-a-handgun-to-a-schizophrenic bill”.
They KNOW this is a bad law. They KNOW that this will lead to bad consequences. And no one in the caucus apparently believes in the law because they have to push their “hatchet man” out to push the bill forward, rather than having a sponsor who actually believes in the damn thing take the lead.
We should be allowed to sue our legislators for malpractice. If a doctor acted this way – deliberately performing a procedure he knows is bad for his patient – he’d get slapped with a well-deserved malpractice suit. Why should legislators acting in bad faith be any different?