From: James Rogers (jamesr@best.com)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 18:33:25 MST
At 05:07 PM 12/4/2000 -0800, MMB wrote:
>No, best not to arouse attention: concealed carry of a handgun is flat
>out illegal in NM, regardless of whether it should be or not. I am not
>picking on NM, I just selected it because on the face of it, it seems
>like a pretty free-living place.
New Mexico is often excepted as the lone "non-western" western
state. Despite its rural population and geographical location, New Mexico
is populated by large quantities of government dependent peoples and
metropolitan aristocrats playing cowboy. As a result, its politics are far
more Democrat oriented (both in politics and nature) than Arizona, Nevada,
etc as it has lots of government social welfare programs, semi-restrictive
gun laws, and a relatively high tax burden. Of course, a lot of this has
to do with New Mexico being one giant Indian reservation (most Indian
reservations are pretty anti-gun in most parts of the country).
-James Rogers
jamesr@best.com
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