Breaking: New Mexico Governor Suspends the Second Amendment
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham bans all open and concealed carry.
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham declared a “public health emergency” as justification to ban all concealed and open carry for the next month or longer, effective now.
The order is effective statewide but targeted towards cities with high violent crime rates, specifically, Albuquerque. Grisham will review the ban after 30 days to determine whether or not it continues. From KOB Channel 4:
There are several exceptions. The public health order does not impact private property, licensed firearm dealers, firing ranges, or shooting competitions. However, anyone traveling between those locations must store their guns in a locked container or safety box.
The order does not apply to law enforcement officers or licensed security officers …
The Regulation and Licensing Division will conduct monthly inspections of licensed firearm dealers to ensure compliance with all sales and storage laws.
The Department of Health, along with the Environment Department, will begin wastewater testing for illegal substances such as fentanyl at schools.
The Department of Health will compile and issue a comprehensive report on gunshot victims presenting at hospitals in New Mexico, which shall include (if available): demographic data of gunshot victims, including age, gender, race, and ethnicity; data on gunshot victim’s healthcare outcomes; the brand and caliber of the firearm used; the general circumstances leading to the injury; the impact of gunshot victims on New Mexico’s healthcare system; and any other pertinent information.
No firearms are allowed on state property, including state buildings and schools. This also includes other places of education where children gather, such as parks.
New Mexico State Police will add officers in Albuquerque with funding for overtime provided.
The Children, Youth and Families Department will immediately suspend the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative and evaluate juvenile probation protocols.
Grisham also said that her oath to the Constitution “is not absolute” and gave these examples to justify her ban:
Lujan Grisham referenced several recent shootings in Albuquerque in issuing the order. Among them was a suspected road rage shooting Wednesday outside a minor league baseball stadium that killed 11-year-old Froyland Villegas and critically wounded a woman as their vehicle was peppered with bullets while people left the game.
Last month, 5-year-old Galilea Samaniego was fatally shot while asleep in a motor home. Four teens entered the mobile home community in two stolen vehicles early on Aug. 13 and opened fire on the trailer, according to police. The girl was struck in the head and later died at a hospital.
The governor also cited an August shooting death in Taos County of 13-year-old Amber Archuleta. A 14-year-old boy shot and killed the girl with his father’s gun while they were at his home, authorities said.
There is zero evidence that a LTC holder was behind the death of the 11 year-old. The five year-old was killed by a group of teenagers in illegal possession of a firearm who committed a drive-by. The 13 year-old was killed by another teen, who was charged with homicide; and the father charged preexisting negligence law. At no point do open or concealed carry factor in to any of these crimes nor is there any, at all, evidence showing that concealed carry permit holders are the people driving the crime rate. Grisham is simply punishing the innocent for the illegal actions of criminals. If prohibited persons are willfully violating the law to illegally carry then banning all carry isn’t going to have any effect, either — except on innocent people’s ability to defend themselves.
Albuquerque’s crime rate has steadily risen for the past several years with the cause attributed to the former Soros-backed DA, now AG of New Mexico, Raúl Torrez.
Albuquerque Police Chief Gorden Eden said the recent spike was in part due to the case management order that went into effect in 2015. The state Supreme Court order that only affected the Albuquerque area aimed to reduce the population in jail by moving cases through the courts more quickly.
“With the case management order we started to see cases being dismissed by the District Attorney’s office and started to see the jail population decrease,” Eden said. “Quite frankly, what I think happened is there were just too many decisions being made in the criminal justice system and that has created a real perfect storm for our state and for the 2nd judicial district.”
The DA was busy dismissing cases right and left and the clueless governor doesn’t understand why crime is on the rise? The new DA isn’t any better: a Grisham hand-picked establishment Democrat who was accused of directing staffers to publish stolen emails that included receipts about underwear purchases from former Susana Martinez.
Blue cities like Albuquerque have a murder problem — and a judicial rot problem. Grisham citing a “public health emergency” is exactly why Second Amendment supporters reject this specious claim by anti-Second Amendment advocates to classify felonious actions and prohibited carry as a “health issue.”
No way this edict survives the guaranteed court battle, especially post Bruen.
The only issue here are Democrats who enable repeat offenders to further brutalize innocent citizens.
I think, ultimately, they follow the pattern of Hitler’s Germany; first they take the guns away with which the people maintain the real power, then they introduce by constant bombardment and repetition the lies they want the people to “buy into” and believe, they introduce division and hatred amongst the common masses so the masses fight and distrust one another, then they goose-step in with their government control to supposedly bring “law and order” and ultimately choose their victims for the slaughter; mercilessly herding them into cow cars and carting them off to FEMA camps of death by mass murder. And so far, we have pretty much tolerated their WOKE, ANTIFA, BLM, TRANSGENDER, etc AGENDA/COW PILES. Thus, the mess which we are now chin deep in. And if we decide that a civil uprising might be a solution, MARTIAL LAW would be their sweetest dream come true....off to the FEMA camps we go!!!!!! We, the people, ARE the ones in CONTROL~we have become lazy. It is time to wake up, stand up and refuse to back up from this evil that is trying to destroy our nation from within and from top to bottom. WE ARE ONE NATION UNDER GOD. GOD OWNS these United States and He expects us to steward and run this nation ACCORDING TO HIS DESIGN AND COMMANDS. He gave us the AUTHORITY AND POWER to do just that. And God will NOT do something for us that HE told US TO DO FOR HIM. WAKE UP CHRISTIANS~we have much work to do in JESUS’S NAME....and we need to be doing it NOW.
The Founding Fathers of Our Great Nation designed and penned Our
CONSTITUTION as an INSTRUMENT to insure the free peoples of these United
States of America would NEVER be enslaved by their government; The Government was designed to be the manager of this INSTRUMENT OF the people, FOR the people and BY the people.
And, if or when the managers of this instrument prove themselves to be USURPERS by virtue of their OPPRESSIVE, CONTROLLING, ILLEGAL ACTIONS OR WORDS it is then time for the People of this Great Nation to REMOVE, REPLACE, AND RE-ELECT their government with a new, better, and appropriately responsive and subservient manager of this INSTRUMENT; our precious and irrefutably capable CONSTITUTION.
THS~dlb 08-29-2014