Point me in the direction of Albuquerque

Because it's open season on the normies!

It’s been said before, but it bears repeating: when you allow the government to override your rights in the name of “safety” during an “emergency,” the government is then incentivized to frame everything as an issue of safety, requiring an “emergency” edict to properly and necessarily address.

In the case of New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, the newest emergency in dire need of attention — which she’s decided to frame as a public health crisis, having just witnessed emergency Covid measures at least partially withstand SCOTUS scrutiny — is “gun violence,” a phrase that purposely re-situates the agency in need of emergency restrictions with inanimate objects, not with the actual agency responsible for the conditions supposedly necessitating the emergency, namely, those who use guns illegally, and with the non-defensive intent to harm or kill others. The reason for this re-situation of agency is both simple and blatant: New Mexico, like every state and every city and county in the country, already has laws against using firearms illegally, which would include criminals with firearms shooting and killing children. Such laws, as they exist, therefore prudently seek to punish those responsible for committing the illegal act. What they don’t do, however, is criminalize the tool itself — and it is the tool that the left wants criminalized, because it is a tool that stands between themselves and unimpeded compliance of their ideological belief that they should be granted the right to rule over the proles, rather than merely rely on their permission to govern. At a time when the left is loath to prosecute violent offenders, their energetic attempts to criminalize the rights of the law abiding must be viewed for what it is: another arm of the ongoing coup against our Constitutional republic.