Governor Andrew Cuomo declares a disaster emergency on gun violence.

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All righty. So it is a common facet of all governments throughout human history that whenever a government seeks to maximize its own power, it declares an emergency.

We saw this most prominently with COVID. When the government still has not let go, the emergency measures put in place to try and fight a virus that nobody knew anything about, even though we now have enough

information to reopen, even though we now have a vaccine. We see all over the world. There

are places still locking down for no apparent reason. We see with regard to virtually every major

topic of the day, a desire by governmental actors to declare an emergency specifically

so they can then take greater control. On the right, you might see President Trump, for example,

declare a border emergency, even though it isn't technically an emergency in the sense that it

actually invokes emergency powers. If you declare something in emergency, people are more likely

to give you the means necessary in order to solve the emergency.

And so governmental actors always right, left and center, have a deep desire and abiding

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