Connecticut Carry Redux

Connecticut law:

"All persons shall bear arms, and every male person shall have in continual readiness a good muskitt or other gunn, fitt for service."


Things have regressed since that happy legal code of the Nutmeggers in 1650, but   we're trying to restore the spirit in Iowa where Constitutional Carry isn't quite yet dead.

A CC bill was supposed to have died last week when it failed to make it though the mid-session funnel. The bill's sponsor found a loophole -- wouldn't he just :). Tax bills are exempt from the funnel rules,  and  Rep. Tom Sands of Wapello said since the measure eliminates permit fees, it's a tax bill.  The appropriate committee will probably go along and vote it out with a do-pass recommendation.  Love it. We're getting sneakier than a Chicago alderman.

However, I doubt this will make it all the way. In the first place, our brand-new shall-issue was a big  gulp for gentle Iowans, and it isn't quite digested yet.

Republicans hold a 60-40 house margin, but even some of them are afraid of this bill. Democrats run the senate and are not under the kind of electoral pressure to back liberty measures as they were last year.

The organized cop unions are, of course, soiling their stepins.

(Carnage under the new law is so far limited to one dimwit who waved his pistol around in a bar and thereby lost his permit, his pistol, and the respect of brainier freedom advocates.)

The things we pay for

Local radio is running a somewhat breathless report from the DNR. The conservaton bureaucrats  revealed that the ice on the lakes is getting thinner. After a careful study, they attribute the cause to spring. They say you should be careful out there.

Oh, shut up.

People I'm tired of:

Charlie Sheen

Kate Middleton
.

Programs! Get your programs here!

Five of them are in Iowa tonight. They make up about half of the crowd  of Republicans who think they know how to regulate you and will say anything, promise anything, for your agreement.

Reporters are estimating the attendance in a Waukee church at some 800, not counting hundreds of big-city journalists functioning this evening as ethnologists examining the rustic tribes of Bucolia.

Tonight's five are paying obeisance to the sponsoring  "Iowa Faith and Freedom (sic) Council," one of the several  political/evangelical operations which rule the Iowa poitical roost.

They are:

--Herman Cain, The Godfather. Widely suspected as the perpetrator of the first pineapple pizza.

--Newt Gingrich who, in the absence of Sarah Palin, is functioning as Rock Star pro tem.

--Tim Pawlenty, successor to Jesse Ventura, believer in small government except for free stadiums for professional sports moguls and tax-financed light rail systems.

--Buddy Roemer, a plantation-raised former Democrat and  Louisiana  governor. He decides things after snapping the rubber band on his wrist. cf. Marie LaVeau

--Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania who, however sanctified, is just plain weird, a living lesson in the harm done by sniffing the Pittsburgh coal dust.

It's going to be a long eleven months

TBC.