Fri Sep 22, 2023 – 10:50 am EDT
(BioEdge) — After three innocent children were gunned down in three months in the American state of New Mexico, the governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, announced a 30-day suspension of the right to carry firearms. “When New Mexicans are afraid to be in crowds, to take their kids to school, to leave a baseball game – when their very right to exist is threatened by the prospect of violence at every turn – something is very wrong.”
Naturally, fans of the Second Amendment were outraged and the governor quickly back-pedalled on the ban. What’s interesting about this incident is not the ban but the reason put forward by the governor – that gun violence was a public health emergency.
In the wake of COVID-19 restrictions, those three words – “public health emergency” – have become highly controversial.
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Writing in The Epoch Times, bioethics commentator Wesley J. Smith claims that “the medical establishment is redefining our most contentious political controversies as ‘public health emergencies’ so as to circumvent public resistance and impose policies on society unobtainable through normal democratic means.”
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