Santa Fe City Council to Consider Creating Untold Number of "Gun-Free Zones"

Your Santa Fe City Council is currently considering a resolution that would make it a fourth degree felony for a person -- including a concealed handgun licensee -- to carry a firearm for personal protection in, or on, certain city-controlled properties that can be used for school-related or school-sanctioned events. 
 

These would include the Santa Fe Community Convention Center and its underground garage (including personal vehicles, presumably), public libraries in the city, any facility -- public or private -- that students may visit to participate in school activities, and any facility -- public or private -- where Santa Fe Public School interns could be placed, including City Hall.

According to the resolution's preamble, anti-gun Mayor Alan Webber and gun control supporters on the Council are relying on an expansive interpretation of the state definition of school premises in New Mexico state law that includes "any.... public buildings or grounds, including playing fields and parking areas that are not public school property, in or on which public school-related and sanctioned activities are being performed."