This is why your best result is lobbying at and voting for good people in your statehouse.
I live in deep blue NM. It's been that way since 1932 in the legislature. We have no firearms permits to purchase or possess, can carry openly most places, carry concealed on our own property and in vehicles on roadways without permit, and CCL is 'shall issue' after a course that is heavy on 'when' and lighter on 'how.' We've been 'stand your ground' for criminal law since 1912, but for wrongful death civil suits whether you safely could have avoided shooting can be considered by your jury.
These above are all because of an accessible, service-oriented volunteer legislature that is time-limited on their sessions. We also have low property taxes, and do NOT have personal property tax. Government services are few, but we don't need many.
For my money, state legislatures can work - part of the genius of the Founding Fathers and the shrewd system they designed.
Free speech is open in most public spaces, prohibited in some; if you want to practice free speech in those, you'll need a permit. As well, you're prohibited by both criminal and civil law from provably dangerous, libelous, or slanderous free speech. Limits. There are limits. The same is true for freedom of association, freedom of religion, eminent domain, right to speedy trials, and on and on.
Limits.
I live in deep blue NM. It's been that way since 1932 in the legislature. We have no firearms permits to purchase or possess, can carry openly most places, carry concealed on our own property and in vehicles on roadways without permit, and CCL is 'shall issue' after a course that is heavy on 'when' and lighter on 'how.' We've been 'stand your ground' for criminal law since 1912, but for wrongful death civil suits whether you safely could have avoided shooting can be considered by your jury.
These above are all because of an accessible, service-oriented volunteer legislature that is time-limited on their sessions. We also have low property taxes, and do NOT have personal property tax. Government services are few, but we don't need many.
For my money, state legislatures can work - part of the genius of the Founding Fathers and the shrewd system they designed.
Free speech is open in most public spaces, prohibited in some; if you want to practice free speech in those, you'll need a permit. As well, you're prohibited by both criminal and civil law from provably dangerous, libelous, or slanderous free speech. Limits. There are limits. The same is true for freedom of association, freedom of religion, eminent domain, right to speedy trials, and on and on.
Limits.
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