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NMGunIt wrote:
I tried to find out what the result of a declared State of Emergency by the governor of New Mexico would be. I have read somewhere, that in some states, during a declared state of emergency, the RTKBA is prevented.
Does anyone know this or how to get this info?
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Seeing the varying responses to this query, permit me to submit these thoughts: Both the national and state Constitution(s0, respectively, stipulate a right to keep and bear arms; NM Const.specifically states we have said "RIGHT" "protected", and that "RIGHT includes FOR personal protection; would one, in a literal emergency, not NEED, especially under an emergency, personal protection? Having asked that, one should consider this; the state Constitution protects your RIGHT to keep and bear arms; the governor operates under,by, and derives hispower fromthe constitution; can the governor suspend your constitutional RIGHT(S) merely with the stroke of a pen, NO??! He can try; his goons fro mthe DPS can threaten you; but then the question lies, how free are you really? Will you roll over, play dead, and lay yourself vulnerable to roving thugs, not unlike those in New Orleans BECAUSE you want to be a good li'l serf and obey the government when that govt. may be attempting to actually place you in a position of danger by attempting to disarm you, espcially in time of an emergency.
As for me and mine, we'll stand with the logic of Patrick Henry; "givem eliberty or give me death": And if in a state emergency I WILL reatin my GOD GIVEN right to protect myself regardless of what King Richardson would or would not decalre, and woe unto any homos sapien erectus who, during an emergency wishes to injure me. Better the thug's life than mine.
It's a matter of determining whether you beleive you have a "natural right" to life and liberty, which means safey, or are going to follow the law and give up your cap gun when the guv says ya gotta. If you do the latter, then you'll be one who gives them up when they come to confiscate them for good.