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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.
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
“Beware of two errors: despising the world God sustains, or worshipping the culture He restrains.”
— Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace Vol. 1, Ch. 30
"[Successful NY Mayoral candidate] Mamdani built his campaign on the infrastructure of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA and its city allies can dispatch activists across New York and, with a network of progressive partner organizations, can mobilize young people, get out the vote, and do the work of door-to-door politics.
"We saw this dynamic many times in the twentieth century: socialists rise to power, their policies degrade the quality of life, and, as they enter the endgame, they tighten their grip on power and offload resentments onto their ideological, racial, and economic enemies.
"...the twentieth century taught us that left-wing voters have extraordinary defenses against reality."
-- Christopher Rufo
