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New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham believes she has the power to “suspend” the right from the Bill of Rights, Amendment II. She says citizens don’t feel safe in Albuquerque and the surrounding county because criminals have guns and there is a problem with gun violence. She indicates that this is an “emergency” which can only be dealt with by denying carry privileges to all law-abiding citizens in that county, leaving guns only in the hands of the outlaw criminals.
Memo to Gov. Grisham:
Criminals are intelligent and fully knowledgeable of their environment. They know what you have just done. They would certainly know it if, instead, you encouraged every law-abiding citizen to carry. The criminals would not only feel themselves surrounded, but they would also know they dare not attempt any criminal conduct.
Lesson from New Mexico history: a fully armed society is a polite and law-observing society. Start taking advantage of the law-honoring citizens who are still trying to make New Mexico a great state. Guns were one of the indispensable tools which built your state. Equip your citizens with the tools they need to remedy what you consider an emergency. Let your law enforcement officers enforce the existing laws which already criminalize murder. Don’t force those officers to start arresting your Constitutionally-informed citizens, who are your best hope for peace, prosperity and justice.
You should also know that most of your LE officers, including Albuquerque police Chief Harold Medina, will not follow you in violating their oaths to the Constitution, and will not themselves break the law. Amend your emergency order before more New Mexico citizens get killed. Your action is a recipe for death and lawlessness.
Precious in the sight of the LORD Is the death of His godly ones.
Psalm 116:15
Rod Dreher asks, "I don’t understand why the government doesn’t deploy the army and shoot rioters until they stop. Philippe Lemoine, a Frenchman, says it’s not that simple."
Excerpt:
"We have let things rot for so long that, at this point, relying primarily on force to restore order would require a degree of violence far greater than what people realize and what is politically feasible.
It's possible to contain a riot using only moderate force when the number of police officers is high relative to the number of rioters, but when riots are so widespread and involve so many people because you have allowed this kind of things to happen for so long, that's just not possible and you have to use extreme violence to make up for the lack of manpower.
I know people on the Internet will say that it doesn't matter and that we should just do it, but the reality is that most of the people in charge are not prepared to use that kind of force and neither would most ordinary people if they saw ...
Even Marine Le Pen’s recent statements track this line: personal Islamic practice is compatible with the Republic; replacing French law with Sharia is not. French Muslims who are simply citizens practicing their "religious faith" “have no reason to worry” about a Le Pen election victory.
But can one be a practicing Muslim without demanding and practicing Sharia?
