Point me in the direction of Albuquerque

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.

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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.

[I will have more on this shortly, but this is the same point Adam and I were making in today’s Amiable Skeptics episode about the pandemic being a trial run for rule by decree. Lujan Grisham might just be a little too far ahead of the curve that her party was rounding anyway. — Ed]

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