New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has issued an emergency public health order temporarily suspending the right to carry firearms in public across Albuquerque and surrounding Bernalillo County.

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      10 months ago

      The answer to the drug abuse epidemic isn’t more drugs either. But banning drugs didn’t do anything to help communities nor will banning guns.

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          10 months ago

          Social safety nets.

          Things like: Universal health care, stronger worker protections, better welfare support, better maternal/paternal assistance.

          People making enough money to support themselves, aren’t in constant danger of layoffs just to boost profits, can access physical and mental healthcare cheaply, aren’t financially ruined because they have a baby and new a few months off work, and aren’t in danger of losing everything over an emergency room visit aren’t out committing violent crimes.

          Focusing on “gun” violence ignores the root cause of violent crimes regardless of the weapon of choice.