Messing About with Article II, Section 6

A few weeks ago, Albuquerque City Councilor Diane Gibson has gotten herself some no-charge campaign advertising, courtesy of the lamestream snoozemedia ^[1], on account of her calling for a State-level Constitutional Amendment to change Article II, Section 6 of the Constitution of the State of New Mexico from its current text:

No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons. No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.

— to something that gives municipal and county governments more leeway to enact victim disarmament statutes:

No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons.

Considering that the sorts of victim disarmament statutes desired by Gibson and her hoplophobe cronies only disarm those who need to own and carry weapons the most — the five-foot, hundred-pound woman who’s being stalked by her crazed six-foot, two-hundred-pound ex-boyfriend — and don’t actually disarm the criminal and terrorist types one bit, those of us who support and exercise the individual, civil, Constitutional, human right to own and carry weapons for “…. for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes ….” would prefer that IF Article II, Section 6 must be amended, that it should read like this afterwards:

No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes. No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.

FOR FURTHER REFERENCE

1. Albuquerque Journal — New vote sought on firearm provision

   KRQE News — Albuquerque city councilors seek new vote on firearms provision

NOTES

1. Submitted to the Albuquerque Journal — Tuesday, 18 August 2020 at 8:57 AM
2. Reposted —
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   2. Absurdist Discordian Party of New Mexico — Facebook page / Spreely page
   3. A Bias Toward Liberty — Facebook group
   4. Albuquerque Liberty Forum — Facebook page / Spreely page
   5. Discordian Absurdist Party of New Mexico — Facebook page / Spreely page
   6. Freedom Rally Point New Mexico — Facebook group
   7. Gun Owners of New Mexico — Facebook group
   8. KCUF Media — Facebook page / Spreely page
   9. Libertarian Second Amendment Caucus — Facebook page / Spreely page
   10. New Mexico Dissent and Expose — Facebook page / Spreely page
   11. New Mexico Gun Rights — Facebook group
   12. New Mexico Lest We Forget (voters remorse) — Facebook group
   13. New Mexico Libertarians — Facebook group / Facebook page / Minds group / Spreely group / Spreely page
   14. Resist Marxism New Mexico — Facebook page
   15. Sons and Daughters of Liberty New Mexico — Facebook group
   16. Split the State New Mexico — Facebook page / Spreely page
   17. Stupor Bowl Sundae Feetball Shoot — Facebook page / Spreely page
   18. The Old Drunken Old Irrvelivents — Facebook page / Spreely page
   19. The Weekly Sedition — Facebook page / Spreely page / Twitter / WordPress
   20. Vote Dumpster Fire — Facebook page
   21. Vote the Air — Facebook page
   22. Vote the Air NM — Facebook page
   23. Wood Chipper — Facebook page

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