Regardless how one feels about #GunControl, solutions to gun violence need to be addressed by the legislature, not the executive branch (whose job is to enforce the law).
Hopefully this inspires the legislature to take action.
#BREAKING: A far-Right Trump supporter, identified by antifascists online at Ryan Martinez, has been arrested by police after shooting an Indigenous protester (who is in reported stable condition) in so-called Española, New Mexico at a protest calling for the removal of conquistador, Juan de Oñate, called by the organization The Red Nation.
On social media the event was billed as a "prayerful protest." The statue was put into storage during the George Floyd uprising and was supposed to be put back on display this week at the Rio Arriba County building, which for the last week, has been the site of ongoing Native-led demonstrations, prayer, and protest - successfully delaying the statue being re-erected.
This is the second time that a far-Right counter-protester has shot and injured someone over the statue. On June 15th, Stephen Baca shot a protester at a rally calling for the statue's removal.
“A federal judge has blocked part of a public health order that suspended the right to carry guns in public across #NewMexico’s largest metro area.
The ruling Wednesday by U.S. District Judge David Urias marks a setback for Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham as she responds to several recent shootings that took the lives of children, including an 11-year-old boy as he left a minor league baseball game in Albuquerque.” #legsl#GunViolence
The Frasher Foto Postcard Collection https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6s2019xp/ hosts over 5,000 picture postcard views of California and the Southwest taken by Burton Frasher in the 1910s–1950s. Among the many shots of landscapes and people are street scenes, offering a time-travel tour of early 20th-century American signmaking.
“#NewMexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued an emergency public health order that suspends the open and permitted concealed carry of firearms in Albuquerque for 30 days in the midst of a spate of #GunViolence.
Dem gov said she is expecting legal challenges but felt compelled to act in response to gun violence, incl the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old boy outside a minor league baseball stadium this week”
Voted in #SantaFe#NewMexico today, a place where the Democratic primary determines some of the ultimate races. One race really struck me as emblematic of the future, assuming constitutional democracy survives in the U.S. 1/
“Fed judge cleared way for enforcement of public health order that suspends right to carry #guns at public parks & playgrounds in #NewMexico’s largest metro area.
The order rejects request from gun rights advocates to block temp firearms restrictions as legal challenges move fwd.
It marks victory for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham & her advocacy for temp gun restrictions in response to recent shootings that left children dead” #legal#GunViolence
"Texas Gov. Greg #Abbott announced this week that the Texas National Guard is installing #RazorWire along the border of #Texas and #NewMexico on his orders"
Here's the full moon rising tonight over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern New Mexico. Boy, do I wish I could share this view tonight in HDR, where you could see the brilliant yellow moon and all its features, but browsers and file formats and screens just aren't there yet.
While the record $10 billion budget for #NewMexico is great and proof that Democrats put the money in when possible, a large chunk of that is dependent on fossil fuel revenues. In order to phase out fossil fuels and bring about a #GreenNewDeal, states have an obligation to wean themselves off fossil fuel revenues for the sake of our planet. https://www.sfreporter.com/news/2024/02/12/senate-approves-record-budget/
A bighorn sheep — a younger ram from a mini-herd that dropped by to eat the yard when I was staying in New Mexico a month ago — walking behind a cholla cactus in the middle of a spring snowstorm. #NaturePhotography#NewMexico#Photography#Snow#Sheep#Wild
I swear I just heard an eagle out the window. It’s not impossible, I’ve seen both bald eagles and golden eagles nearby, but never at the house. #NewMexico