With all due respect, I believe you may underestimate the potential threat that can spill across NY's boarders . The anti's have been creeping forward for some time with the health factor. You are not just fighting Cuomo, you are fighting other blue states, and the AMA. I hope you are correct, but if this gets traction it can be more serious. I think Cuomo will be done come election times, and I think he knows it. He has nothing to loose so can play to his party as they will take care of him, and the emergency powers hands him a potent tool. JMO
I'm not ignoring it. However, I'll go so far as to remind readers that Trump got 70 million votes and his opposition is questionable having that many. Broken down state by state, there are about half a dozen who will likely attempt the same thing. That leaves 40+ states who will not, and have been passing laws which disable a lot of what they would try.
Even in those "blue" states which seem to toe a line, most of the non metro counties are significantly not. What we are seeing is the reaction by a few who clog the hallways of power in state houses and legislatures, and they are not the majority. They are an interconnected web of influence with fewer numbers than many understand.
Keep in mind that "emergency powers" can and have been limited in other states who are working to make it stick. At present, we don't even know what he plans, and what resources he may attempt to throw at the task. Again, we have done the math - there can't be any effective door to door action, even the White House will fail miserably trying to get more vaccinations. (And what list are they working off of?) I'd expect him to direct voluntary turn in prior to an expiration of gun rights of ownership, which will trigger millions of residents to sue, start demonstrations, and eventually taint the last few chances of him even publicly campaigning. Nope, he's an embattled despot who has stepped over the line constitutionally and everything that follows is tainted fruit of this poisoned tree. The stance that somehow gun crime is a major health issue is more than obviously overreach and a seizure of the people's rights. We will see just how he will grip them in the face of millions of NY gun owners who really don't have to do a thing. No turn ins, no support, no enforcement. Just laugh at him exactly the same as they laughed at the SAFE Act. And other states? There is no wall of blue in this country, there are battle grounds of a few metros attempting to coerce a much larger majority of counties who refuse to cooperate. Is that not exactly what the electoral map shows? The least number of counties ever won by a candidate?
Some oldsters may volunteer to be the target of enforcement shooting a squirrel or getting face time as a woke hero saying "I own guns but - " and it's an old well known publicity stunt. We will see some inroads among the compliant who want to be victims, we will also see significant failures of inaction because they lack any support by the people.
You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. The People are becoming much more aware of it now.
