Des Moines police are urging Iowans to prioritize firearm safety following a shooting at Pappajohn Sculpture Park earlier this month.
The incident involved a 17-year-old who was shot while attempting to rob a 22-year-old man. Police said the man who fired the gun acted in self-defense and is not facing charges.
Law enforcement officials explained that self-defense shootings, which are more commonly associated with police officers, are increasingly being seen among civilians.
“There’s been several changes in gun laws here in Iowa over the years. And the one thing that we’ve seen, the byproduct of that is there’s more guns out there,” said DMPD Sgt. Paul Parizek.
Since 2021, Iowa has been a constitutional carry state, allowing any law-abiding adult to carry a handgun without a permit.
Police emphasized that self-defense with a firearm is only justified under strict criteria. Deadly force can only be used if there is a reasonable assumption that one’s life or wellbeing is in immediate danger.
— Pappajohn Sculpture Park shooting in Des Moines puts Iowa’s self-defense gun laws in focus
“There’s been several changes in gun laws here in Iowa over the years. And the one thing that we’ve seen, the byproduct of that is there’s more guns out there,” … in the hands of responsible law abiding citizens interested in protecting their selves and family from the increasing crime as a result of democrats embracing and facilitating and emboldening criminals and crime. This is not a bad thing.
There, finished it correctly for you instead of the ‘dangling implication’ that guns cause the crime. The ‘several changes in gun laws here in Iowa over the years’ was mostly for constitutional carry by law abiding not-prohibited persons. And such adopted in various states has literally saved millions more lives than any anti-gun talking point or law or police department has or ever will, and continues to save lives year after year.
Criminals should be shot dead as often as possible.
“Law enforcement officials explained that self-defense shootings, which are more commonly associated with police officers, are increasingly being seen among civilians.”
So…. this begs the question: Where was law enforcement to protect those ‘civilians’ when those ‘civilians’ were victimized by crime and were forced to defend them selves in the maybe ‘eye blink’ in time they had left before suffering serious injury or death at the hands of the crime perpetrator?
Of course self-defense shootings are increasingly being seen among civilians – self-defense is a normal and rightful and constitutional and human-inherent-natural right and thing. It built into humans naturally, the will to survive, and we even have natural built in instincts and mechanisms to enact that self-defense by any-means-possible (i.e. ‘stress response’ AKA ‘fight or flight’ response). But its not just ‘increasingly’, self-defense response enactment has been with humans for literally thousands of years (millions if you go back into the hominin lineage, where self-defense existed even then, and even before that in a fashion in the precursor to human life as it struggled in the primordial ooze and ocean to survive) and it does not just belong to ‘law enforcement’ so I’m not sure why the act of self defense by humans suddenly worries or concerns you.
And stop calling them ‘civilians’ as if they are a separate distinct class of some type and ‘law enforcement’ is on top of the food chain. They are humans and citizens, ultimately your bosses, that law enforcement failed to be there to protect when they needed protection so they protected their-selves.
“Since 2021, Iowa has been a constitutional carry state, allowing any law-abiding adult to carry a handgun without a permit.”
And that is as it should be. It is not natural or correct or constitution-intent that a law abiding United States citizen should need to ask for permission to have a means of self-defense or property possession/ownership they choose to have.
Law Enforcement Put On Notice! Qualified Immunity In Jeopardy If You Enforce Illegal Gun Control!
“Virginia’s gun rights battle just exploded into what some are calling a constitutional crisis.
GOA and VCDL have issued an open letter to every law enforcement agency in Virginia, warning officers about enforcing Virginia’s universal background check law despite an existing court injunction. Meanwhile, new court filings accuse state officials of ignoring a standing court order and violating the separation of powers.
In this video, we break down the lawsuit, the injunction, the open letter to law enforcement, and what this could mean for gun owners across Virginia and the nation.”
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