A gun rights group sued New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) and other state officials on Saturday over an emergency order banning firearms from being carried in public in Albuquerque.
The National Association for Gun Rights, alongside Albuquerque resident Foster Haines, filed suit just one day after Grisham announced the public health order temporarily suspending concealed and open carry laws in the city.
The group argued that the order violates their Second Amendment rights, pointing to the Supreme Court’s decision last year in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.
A lot of reasons, people who feel the need to buy a gun are likely at higher risk of gun crime. For any significantly high enough group of people who own guns, some will be reckless and hurt themselves or provoke others. People are unempathetic and don’t realize pointing a gun at others constitutes a deadly threat- to name a few reasons. Why do* you think?
Aren’t guns supposed to make sure you don’t die?
Guns are designed so that their owner can immobilize a threat to their life as effectively as possible, that doesn’t mean all people use them for their intended use case. Cars aren’t designed to crash, but the more people that drive cars increases the risk of crashes. I personally am in a lot of cities at night- and would feel safer with a gun. I’m not exactly of a threatening stature, I’d rather be able to defend myself in those situations than just be at the mercy of basically the person attacking me who’s bigger than me. There are tons of examples of people be paralyzed, getting concussions, or killed by people attacking them with fists, blunt objects, or knives when they’re getting mugged. There is only one way I could (if carrying a gun were possible) credibly deter that.
but the more people that drive cars increases the risk of crashes.
The irony
There are tons of examples of people be paralyzed, getting concussions, or killed by people attacking them with fists, blunt objects, or knives when they’re getting mugged. There is only one way I could (if carrying a gun were possible) credibly deter that.
I assume you must be referring to just giving them your wallet, because having a gun doesn’t really protect you from hand to hand violence by an attacker. Fights are risky and guns are a much much better tool for aggression than responding to a suddenly violent situation. Unless they’re calling you out from across the saloon, by the time you know you’re in danger they’re usually too close. Carrying a gun just means you also get to give them your gun, not that you start blasting the bad guys.
I assume you must be referring to just giving them your wallet
You are naive to assume that always resolves it, there are also various reasons that someone cannot afford to do that.
because having a gun doesn’t really protect you from hand to hand violence by an attacker.
Why not?
Fights are risky
Agreed, I’d rather people have the opportunity to get what they can to minimize that risk.
Unless they’re calling you out from across the saloon, by the time you know you’re in danger they’re usually too close.
That’s not true, you can shoot someone who is attacking you still. You can shoot someone who’s running at you with a weapon.
Carrying a gun just means you also get to give them your gun, not that you start blasting the bad guys.
Why do you assume they would know you have a gun?
You are naive to assume that always resolves it, there are also various reasons that someone cannot afford to do that.
How many times have you heard of muggers randomly beating people up once they’ve surrendered their valuables in your local area vs. just online paranoia? You say “you spend time in cities at night”, but I’ve lived in cities for decades, including walking late at night, seen drug dealing and been shouted at by mentally ill homeless people, and both never have felt the need to be armed and also never needed to be so. My preparation for a questionable area is “don’t bring a lot of cash”, not fantasies about how someone holding me up with a knife will somehow let me draw and use a gun while they stand there. Handguns just aren’t good self-defense weapons.
And if you can afford a gun, you can afford to lose the loose cash in your wallet. You’d need to be mugged regularly for a gun to be cheaper than the cash.
Agreed, I’d rather people have the opportunity to get what they can to minimize that risk.
Minimizing risk is giving them the money, or failing that actual self-defense courses for close combat, not imagining a ranged weapon will protect you when at arms length. There’s a reason self-defense courses don’t teach gun-fu, but instead de-escalation/situational awareness, followed by running away, and only then if that’s not immediately available, stunning attacks that give you the window to escape. Even highly skilled combatants want to get away from a fight ASAP. If you try to point a gun at someone with a knife to you, you’re likely to just end up in a wrestling match followed by likely losing it and getting shot.
That’s not true, you can shoot someone who is attacking you still. You can shoot someone who’s running at you with a weapon.
What scenario are you imagining where your attacker is running at you waving a knife from a distance? That’s just not how muggings work. Even in this scenario, anything under 6 meters means the attacker stabs you before you draw and fire.
