New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has issued an emergency public health order temporarily suspending the right to carry firearms in public across Albuquerque and surrounding Bernalillo County.

  • Flying Squid
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    4210 months ago

    If you asked me what, say, the 20 most dangerous cities in America were, Albuquerque would not even be on my radar. But apparently it should be.

      • Flying Squid
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        4310 months ago

        I mean, I don’t base my impression of a real city from its fictional version or I’d have never set one foot in Baltimore due to The Wire.

        • @Wodge
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          1810 months ago

          Well I’d avoid New York due to all those alien invasions etc.

          • @dhork
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            1010 months ago

            London is a lot worse in that respect. The first time I saw the Westminster Bridge in London in person, I was surprised to not see any Cybermen walking across it.

          • Flying Squid
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            310 months ago

            Yeah, but you might get to get a selfie with Thor!

    • 👁️🫦👁️
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      1310 months ago

      My first day visiting Albuquerque, I was in pizza parlor picking up an order, and the news was on a TV nearby. They were covering the arrest of this cracked out looking couple. The lady behind the counter then explained to me that it was a big local story because those two had tortured and murdered their daughter. Its also the cartheftt capital.

      I haven’t been back.

    • @halferect
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      1010 months ago

      It’s the great drug corridor and it’s got lots and lots of surrounding desert to disappear people, but I live in New Mexico and I go to ABQ a lot and never felt in danger. There are areas I definitely wouldn’t go but that’s just like any city

    • @Ensign_Crab
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      510 months ago

      It’s kinda taken a wrong turn.