Since we all know 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything, let’s talk about some of the questions people have been asking of late.
During – and still – the pandemic, many intelligent, rational people wondered about certain aspects of the response to COVID and other seemingly odd things.
They were ignored and vilified and some of the questions they asked were deemed so far beyond the pale that they were called literally insane.
How could you dare suggest the pandemic would ever be used as an excuse to confiscate guns, you batshit crazy neo-fascist gun nut?
Now New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has done almost that – declared a public health emergency in order to ban the carrying of weapons in Albuquerque, even though the law and the courts and the constitution say you really can’t do that.
Grisham is widely known as a drunken idiot – see here https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/new-mexico/2021/02/20/new-mexico-gov-lujan-grisham-regrets-lavish-food-alcohol-spending/4522897001/ and here https://nypost.com/2021/10/11/dem-new-mexico-gov-pays-150k-to-settle-crotch-grab-claim/ , but even her usually supportive lefties are aghast at her behavior this time. From the way woke Slate magazine:
Last week, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared a public health emergency over gun violence in her state and imposed a 30-day ban on public carry in Albuquerque. Lujan Grisham’s diagnosis of the problem is surely correct; her proposed solution, however, is astoundingly misguided. The governor has leveraged an emergency health law to suspend a right protected by state statute, the state constitution, and Supreme Court precedent. Whether that right should exist is beside the point; it does exist in New Mexico today, pursuant not only to court decisions but also democratically enacted laws. By suspending it unilaterally, Lujan Grisham has claimed an alarming new power to revoke well-established individual rights by executive order. And she has done so in the most blundering way possible, ensuring a backlash that will only empower citizens, activists, and politicians who view all firearm restrictions as an existential threat to personal liberty.
Grisham single-handedly proved that people who were worried about public health justified gun laws have, of course, turned out to be right.
Strike one.
And how dare you suggest we would ever try to use a pandemic-type response to combat climate change? Lockdowns, censorship, travel restrictions? How nuts are you?!?
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