When someone commits a violent crime with a firearm, law enforcement needs every possible tool to identify that weapon, connect it to other crimes, and get a dangerous criminal off the streets before they can hurt anyone else.
Emphasizing the need for tools to combat violent crime.
Share
More from Martin Heinrich
That public process is at the heart of good democracy, good governance, and we won’t accept anything less than that.
The first Good Samaritan permit has now been issued, and this is just the beginning. We can now use this new tool to clean up more abandoned mines, improve water quality, and make communities across New Mexico and the West safer and…
I think this program, from a healthcare point of view, just proves out how valuable a fresh fruit and vegetable kind of diet is for the population, and we should learn from that when we’re setting things like farm policy and writing a new…
This is a landmark moment — and proof that our Good Samaritan law is working. After more than 25 years of hard work to break down the legal barriers standing in the way of abandoned mine cleanup, we are finally seeing volunteers get to…
Other voices in this conversation
