…Shall not be infringed. While to most, that line seems pretty straightforward, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham lacks this basic understanding. On September 8, 2023, Governor Grisham announced a firearms order that essentially banned guns for 30 days in sections of New Mexico. While the order has since been scaled back after significant bipartisan […]
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American Exaggeration: The Dual Flaws of the Travel Ban and Gun Control
The above clip is from Aaron Sorkin’s acclaimed show: The West Wing. Ainsley Hayes played by Emily Procter, monologues that “ your gun control position has nothing to do with public safety and certainly not about personal freedom … it’s about you don’t like the people who do like guns… you don’t like the people” […]
Gun Violence and the American Mind
“Reform the mental health care system.” Time and time again, this has been the right-wing response to mass shootings. From three years ago, when 26 lives were lost at Sandy Hook Elementary School, to more recently, when ten people were killed at Umpqua Community College, right-wing politicians have consistently shifted blame onto the American system of […]
The Gun Violence Restraining Order: Necessity or Over-Prevention?
On September 30th, 2014, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill titled “Gun Violence Restraining Order” (AB 1014), making California the first state to permit such a law. This bill allows Californians to petition to revoke firearms temporarily from relatives whom they fear might be mentally unstable or a threat to the public. Assemblywoman Barbara Skinner […]