Following up on an Iowa Independent interview with Dave Leach, the Des Moines resident with ties to the man charged with killing Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller, The Des Moines Register reports that Leach could never attack an abortion provider because he doesn’t know enough about guns:

“You have to have some ability to pull off something like that. I just don’t have it.”


Leach also clarified the widely reported fact that in addition to publishing some of alleged Tiller murderer Scott Roeder’s works in his newsletter, Prayer & Action News, he also met with him. Leach said their last meeting was more than a decade ago.

“He seemed like a nice guy. Personable, good sense of humor,” Leach said.

Kim Lehman, president of Iowa Right to Life, attempted to distance her organization from activists like Leach by telling the Register “the pro-life community is opposed to murder. That’s the whole point.”