A new poll shows overwhelming support for the Right to Keep and bear arms amendment to the Iowa Constitution.
From desmoinseregister.com:
A new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll found 58% of likely voters plan to vote for the proposed amendment in the Nov. 8 midterm election. Thirty-seven percent of likely voters would vote against it, and another 6% are not sure.
The great seal of Iowa features a citizen soldier armed with a musket. The Great Seal, has, in bold letters emblazoned on the banner near the top of the Seal:
"Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain."
In spite of those bold words, Iowa is one of only six states which do not have a protection in the state constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.
At the time of the adoption, in 1847, the right to keep and bear arms was not controversial. .....