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Iowa House passes GOP bill allowing guns in vehicles on school grounds – Iowa Capital Dispatch
As Democrats shared emotional tales of Iowans harm and killed because of gun violence, Republican Home lawmakers handed laws permitting folks to have weapons in locked autos whereas on faculty and faculty properties.
Home File 654 additionally prohibits insurance coverage corporations from refusing to insure Iowa colleges which have armed workers on faculty grounds. An adopted modification stripped the sooner language requiring non-public employers additionally enable firearms in locked autos on firm grounds. It handed on a vote of 62-37.
Advocates for the invoice stated the measure isn’t a technique to enable weapons in colleges, however a technique to enable dad and mom who carry a gun of their automobile to choose up and drop off their youngsters at colleges. However Democrats stated this modification will put Iowa youngsters at higher threat.
The dialogue comes weeks after the college taking pictures of three youngsters and three adults at a Christian faculty in Nashville, and days after a Louisville, Kentucky mass taking pictures at a financial institution that killed 5 and left three injured.
Some incidents have occurred nearer to dwelling. Three mass shootings occurred in in Iowa 2022: A 16-year-old died in a taking pictures exterior East Excessive Faculty in Des Moines in March of that yr. A gunman shot and killed two Iowa State college students, then himself, exterior of Cornerstone Church in Ames in June, and 4 folks died in a taking pictures at Maquoketa Caves State Park in July.
Rep. Lindsay James, D-Dubuque, stated this invoice makes it simpler to hold harmful weapons on faculty grounds, however doesn’t handle the “gun violence epidemic” going through Iowa. She cited information from Everytown for Gun Security report on Facilities for Illness Management research that discovered weapons are the second-leading reason behind demise for Iowa youth.
Rep. Sue Cahill, D-Marshalltown, stated it was an “emotional” invoice for a lot of Democrats, who stated permitting weapons on faculty property in autos would put youngsters at higher threat. She criticized Republicans for passing restrictions on colleges’ educating about points like AIDS or HPV to forestall deaths whereas decreasing limits on gun entry round faculty properties.
Cahill additionally criticized Republicans making concessions within the modification for companies and casinos to make their very own guidelines and insurance policies on weapons in autos, whereas not permitting colleges to do the identical.
“This invoice put weapons nearer to our youngsters, to our lecturers, to our college workers and to our colleges. ” Cahill stated. “How can we let this occur? We have to assist gun security. This amended invoice protects companies, however it doesn’t defend youngsters.”
After a number of Democrats raised their voices, slammed microphones down or swore whereas talking in opposition to the invoice, the Home speaker referred to as for lawmakers to keep up decorum. The Tennessee Home expelled two members over a gun protest for violating decorum guidelines earlier in April, although each had been shortly reappointed.
Rep. Rick Olson, D-Des Moines, questioned whether or not this invoice would enable weapons like an AR-15 — a semiautomatic rifle utilized in a number of mass shootings — onto faculty grounds in a car. Olson argued the invoice permitting “harmful weapons,” which embrace rifles, would enable AR-15s to be carried on faculty and faculty properties.
Rep. Steven Holt, R-Denison, pointed the lawmakers to the state’s current restrictions on carrying and possessing an “offensive weapon,” such a machine gun. He additionally disagreed with the general arguments linking the invoice with faculty shootings.
“Not one of the shootings referred to throughout debate, and not one of the faculty shootings that I’m conscious of which have taken place, contain a mother or father with a allow to hold or an educator with a allow to hold going up to a faculty to drop off their family members and simply out of the blue deciding to commit violence,” Holt stated. “All of this stuff are premeditated.”
The folks having weapons of their autos on faculty grounds are individuals who have permits to hold, Holt stated, and are law-abiding residents. He stated that there’s a “elementary disagreement right here” on the presence of weapons in these conditions. He stated he personally feels extra susceptible in a gun-free zone, as a result of a mentally unwell one who doesn’t care in regards to the regulation might flip that space right into a “taking pictures gallery.”
“I’m personally far more snug with the concept of law-abiding residents being allowed to hold a firearm,” Holt stated. “As a result of like I stated, the dangerous guys don’t care what the regulation says, they may kill indiscriminately. And one armed citizen with a proficiency in firearms can remove the risk.”
The invoice is offered for consideration subsequent within the Senate, the place its companion, Senate File 543, has already handed via the committee course of.
Iowa State women’s basketball star Emily Ryan released a video Thursday in which she discusses her battle with an eating disorder.
Ryan, a senior from Claflin, Kansas, has been one of the Big 12 Conference’s best point guards for the past few seasons. She was a first-team all-conference pick in 2022, and a second-team selection in 2023.
“By sharing my story, I hope to build awareness and provide hope to everyone else fighting an invisible battle,” Ryan said in the video.
Ryan said her sense of self-worth was dependent on Iowa State’s success and her individual performance. That led to increased time spent in the weight room in an effort to get stronger and faster. When Ryan didn’t see the results that she desired, she began to focus on her diet.
Ryan said the Iowa State medical staff expressed their concern about Ryan’s eating habits and what it was doing to her body. Ryan said she was in “complete denial” about having an eating disorder, but her health continued to worsen.
Ryan missed the first nine games of the 2023-24 season due to the eating disorder. When she returned, she said, “off the court I was really struggling. By the end of the season, I was physically and mentally hanging on by a thread.”
During the offseason, Ryan spent 88 days at a treatment center in Denver.
“It took a long time but I finally came to the understanding that being sick wasn’t my fault, and eating disorders are real, complex illnesses,” she said.
How to get help
For resources on disordered eating, call the National Eating Disorders Helpline at 800-931-2237 or text NEDA to 741741.
It was an important date around the state for volleyball teams in Iowa, as the latest rankings were released and regional pairings in all five classes were revealed.
The two come into play once regionals reach the championship round, as the higher-ranked team will serve as the host for those games.
All five No. 1 squads remained the same, as Ankeny Centennial (Class 5A), Cedar Rapids Xavier (4A), Mount Vernon (3A), Denver (2A) and Ankeny Christian (1A) held serve.
New teams to the Top-15 include Iowa City West in 5A, Ballard in 4A, Wapsie Valley in 2A and Stanton in 1A. The entire 3A poll remained the same while Sidney made one of the biggest climbs, moving to ninth from 12th in 1A.
Regional play for 1A and 2A begins Oct. 21 with 3A, 4A and 5A starting Oct. 22. The state tournament is scheduled for Nov. 4-7 in Coralville from the Xtream Arena. Complete regional pairings can be found on Bound.
Class 5A
1. Ankeny Centennial; 2. Pleasant Valley; 3. Ankeny; 4. West Des Moines Dowling; 5. Indianola; 6. Waukee Northwest; 7. Cedar Falls; 8. Cedar Rapids Prairie; 9. Waukee; 10. Iowa City Liberty; 11. West Des Moines Valley; 12. Sioux City East; 13. Iowa City West; 14. Iowa City High; 15. Linn-Mar.
Class 4A
1. Cedar Rapids Xavier; 2. Sioux City Bishop Heelan; 3. North Scott; 4. Clear Creek-Amana; 5. Lewis Central; 6. Pella; 7. Glenwood; 8. Carlisle; 9. Marion; 10. Adel-ADM; 11. Norwalk; 12. Sergeant Bluff-Luton; 13. MOC-Floyd Valley; 14. Ballard; 15. Grinnell.
Class 3A
1. Mount Vernon; 2. Western Christian; 3. West Delaware; 4. Dubuque Wahlert; 5. Davenport Assumption; 6. Sioux Center; 7. Carroll Kuemper; 8. Mid-Prairie; 9. Cherokee; 10. Wilton; 11. Solon; 12. Anamosa; 13. Roland-Story; 14. Clarinda; 15. Nevada.
Class 2A
1. Denver; 2. Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont; 3. Dyersville Beckman; 4. Dike-New Hartford; 5. Aplington-Parkersburg; 6. South Hardin; 7. Boyden-Hull; 8. Pella Christian; 9. Iowa City Regina; 10. Hinton; 11. Grundy Center; 12. Sumner-Fredericksburg; 13. Wapsie Valley; 14. West Burlington; 15. Shenandoah.
Class 1A
1. Ankeny Christian; 2. Holy Trinity; 3. Saint Ansgar; 4. Riverside; 5. BCLUW; 6. Janesville; 7. North Tama; 8. Don Bosco; 9. Sidney; 10. River Valley; 11. Akron-Westfield; 12. Stanton; 13. Fremont-Mills; 14. Southwest Valley; 15. Gladbrook-Reinbeck.
Week 6 of the 2024 Iowa high school football season has wrapped up, and High School on SI is continuing its weekly computer rankings for the season.
The Dowling Maroons kept their top five placing in this week’s 5A Iowa computer rankings after a thrilling 41-35 victory over Ankeny Centennial. They face a strong Urbandale team on Friday, to keep their momentum going.
The top of the 5A computer rankings stay the same this week as the Bettendorf Bulldogs take home another win, this time defeating Kennedy 33-14. The Bulldogs look forward to Friday, where they will travel to Davenport Central in hopes to hold their place in the standings.
SBLive’s formula was created using its linear algebra-based ranking algorithm inspired by the Colley Bias-Free Ranking Method. Colley’s Method was created by Wes Colley, Ph.D., an astrophysicist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He devised his algorithm to help address the subjectivity and controversy regarding BCS college football selections in the 1990s and early 2000s, using a method that used no subjective variables.
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Here are SBLive’s latest Iowa football computer rankings, as of Oct. 7, 2024:
IOWA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COMPUTER RANKINGS
CLASS 5A | CLASS 4A
CLASS 3A | CLASS 2A
CLASS 1A | CLASS A
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