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.
Good. Gun violence is a public health crisis. I’m glad someone is finally treating it as such.
That guy’s looking stupid af with that motorcycle helmet.
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.
I was wondering who the 20% would be, but then remembered that some of them used a relative’s stockpile and the relative was the legal gun owner.
I think they were talking about car crashing and IEDs.
Love this. Now do cars. Not mentioned in the bill of rights thank goodness.
