{"id":85970,"date":"2023-09-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85970"},"modified":"2023-09-13T15:36:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T20:36:49","slug":"make-those-trains-run-on-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85970","title":{"rendered":"Make Those Trains Run On Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Democrats warned me that if we voted GOP, we&#8217;d have fascism in the US. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/the-governor-of-new-mexico-breaks-badly\/\">they were right<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Last Friday, New Mexico governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, announced a 30-day ban on the right to carry open or concealed firearms in public.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.state.nm.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/090823-PHO-guns-and-drug-abuse.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">She and the state health secretary, Patrick Allen, declared<\/a>, \u201cGun violence and drug abuse currently constitute statewide public health emergencies,\u201d and that provided sufficient justification for the governor to repeal the concealed-carry law,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyor.com\/nm-ccw-history\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first passed in 2001<\/a>, as well as the state\u2019s open-carry law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In New Mexico, about 46 percent of adults have at least one gun in their home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New Mexico state legislature is not under fire, missing, or incapable of performing its duties. It&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/Publications\/Session_Dates.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">adjourned on March 18<\/a>, and is scheduled to begin its next session January 16, 2024. The state legislature meets for a 60-day regular session in odd-numbered years, and for a 30-day regular session in even-numbered years. The governor can call a special session to deal with emergency legislation that needs attention before the next regular session; the state legislature can also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/constitution\/new-mexico\/article-iv\/section-6\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">declare its own \u201cextraordinary session\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;and meet outside of the normal session, if three-fifths of each chamber agrees.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>No Democrat can be allowed to live this down.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats warned me that if we voted GOP, we&#8217;d have fascism in the US. And they were right: Last Friday, New Mexico governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, announced a 30-day ban on the right to carry open or concealed firearms in public.&nbsp;She and the state health secretary, Patrick Allen, declared, \u201cGun violence and drug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,22],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-85970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-victim-disarmament","tag-bergs-7th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85971,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85970\/revisions\/85971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}