Yes & No, my dear Candy

In voting against NM House Bill 316, a proposal that would outlaw coyote killing contests, we were treated to another "Live Free or Die" moment that we're all supposed to embrace without question.

"'What happens on my private land is my business,' said [Rep.-R] Candy Spence Ezzell, a Republican Roswell rancher." (as reported today on page A4 of the Albuquerque Journal)

Except when it's murder, for example?  Or rape?  Or stockpiling nuclear arms?  Gee, might there be anything else?

Oh, but I forgot: "... the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."  Except when those arms are nuclear arms.  Yup, guess we do accept some infringements.  Not at all the iron-clad, perpetually inviolable, all-or-nothing 'right' that some people argue we have.

Hint, my dear Candy:  Don't argue for or against an absolute principle; but if you do, don't be surprised when your argument is shot down [pun intended] with a single counterexample.  And don't be surprised if there are more counterexamples.

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