By Ashley Herndon
OCEANSIDE, Calif. | The homes or offices of the new attorney general and four other elected officials in New Mexico have been buffeted by gunfire in the last month.
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Georgia, (my old home state), and 47 other states, have approved “Open Carry” legislation. As we all know ‘Open Carry’ allows people to carry a loaded weapon (semi and automatic included) in public. Whaaaat? This behavior makes Dodge City and Tombstone look calm…they only had six shooters, shotguns, and lever action rifles. Some of those towns were smarter than us today…weapons had to be turned over to the sheriff.
How did this happen? We do not like finger pointing, but it happened mostly in Republican controlled states. I am pleased to be a California resident, at least on this issue. The Republican Party we once knew is gone…most likely forever…being replaced by folks who either backed or participated in the January 6, 2021, treasonous coup attempt and assault on the Capitol and our democracy. This problem of legalized carry does not just lie at, but lives actively at the door of the new, what some call the Neo-Fascist-Republican Party. That group appears to believe in the old Wild West method of governing and approval of murderous people. Violence did not work in the old west. Our lives will be even worse today if allowed to continue.
We are left to wonder which states and leadership has the courage to turn things around without waiting for one of their own to be assaulted.
Look on the Internet and you will find there have been candidates in recent elections posting pictures of themselves holding automatic weapons and grinning.That’s not good in any language.
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