New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday defended her decision to treat gun violence as a public health epidemic, citing statistics on recent firearms seizures, reduced reports of gunfire in the Albuquerque metro area and an uptick in jail bookings, while awaiting a crucial court ruling on a signature effort to suspend gun-carry rights in public parks and playgrounds.
The governor last week extended an emergency public health order regarding gun violence an additional 30 days into early November. A federal judge has temporarily blocked provisions that suspended the right to carry guns in public parks, playgrounds and other areas where children recreate, setting a Wednesday deadline for a ruling on whether to indefinitely block the restrictions while several court challenges are resolved.
Lujan Grisham appeared at the news conference alongside Cabinet secretaries not only for New Mexico’s Public Safety and Corrections departments but also child welfare services, pubic health and environmental protection agencies that are under orders to respond to the ravages of gun violence and drugs.
It’s cool, we’ll just get rid of the second amendment instead, making all of the pro-gun decisions void anyway. If the pro-gun community wants to follow through on their threats to become domestic terrorists over it, that’s fine, since 80% of domestic terrorists are already legal gun owners.
There’s no other way for it to go. The pro-gun community hasn’t shown the slightest interest in addressing gun violence, despite over 20 years of insisting that they (and they alone) have the answers.
Honestly it’s probably the one state sponsored massacre absolutely nobody outside of it would give two shits about.
Well except maybe the international terrorists who’d be losing their easiest source to get firearms from.