Posted on 09/08/2023 5:56:19 PM PDT by shadowlands1960
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday announced a new public health order that, she said, will ban people from carrying firearms, either open or concealed, in Albuquerque and throughout Bernalillo County for the next 30 days, regardless of whether they have a permit.
Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, issued an executive order Thursday evening declaring gun violence a public health emergency.
During a news conference Friday, she said she expects legal challenges to the public health order and expressed uncertainty about whether the order would prevail in court.
The order states "no person, other than a law enforcement officer or licensed security officer, shall possess a firearm ... either openly or concealed, with cities or counties averaging 1,000 or more violent crimes per 100,000 residents per year since 2021."
The order applies only to the city of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County, Lujan Grisham said, and can only be enforced by New Mexico State Police, whose presence in the state's largest city would be "significant" over the next month.
Violating the order would likely be a misdemeanor, Lujan Grisham said, and it will have no bearing on private property or at a licensed gun dealer.
(Excerpt) Read more at santafenewmexican.com ...
Why not just declare emergency and out law crime. I am headed to Albuquerque
On Wednesday. What you bet I will violate that illegal order.
You know, if the DOJ had any creds they would arrest the Gov. that would straighten out these peoples’ over reach.
I don’t know how she thinks she can just issue such a decree.
Democrat governors are also a national health emergency for the massive damage they are responsible for doing to the country.
And just like that your rights are gone. An emergency ya know... For the children.
isn’t it weird how there are no higher judges putting an immediate stop to her unlawful actions? Higher up judges always seem to step in immediately however whenever a republican judge rules in favor of some republican somewhere though!
She doesn’t think she will get away with this, she knows that probably the first court is going to strike it down. This is a test, a toe in the water.
New Mexico Constitution, Article II - Bill of Rights, § 6 Right to bear arms: No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons. No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms. (As amended November 2, 1971 and November 2, 1986.)
I doubt her little order will still be standing this time next week.
Until that happens her stafe police will harass the citizens under color of “law”.
This’ll go over like a fart in Church.
This’ll go over like a fart in Church.
“Or regulate”
But they currently do regulate it, permits are “regulation”.
Nobody (bery few) fought back against her covid bs.
This has NM Constitution problems, as NM has alway s been an open carry state, and legal concealed carry requires training and a background check.
Nothing can go wrong with this ruling except open season for criminal activity.
maybe we should ban consumption of alcohol, too, people are killed every day in vehicles operated by drunk drivers ~
That’s been tried.
The problem isn’t the guns; they have been around for generations. The problem is at least three-fold:
First, there is an attitude that human life is cheap and can be endangered and even disposed of in the name of convenience. Can’t imagine where that attitude came from, aside from a Supreme Court ruling about fifty years ago which condoned millions of humans to be declared inconvenient and thereby disposable.
Second, there is a problem with anger management. There are too may movements advocating that all emotions are valid and should guide behavior. Violence in particular is showcased, admired and justified in video games, sporting events, demonstrations, movies and music. Too often it seems to be held up as the real proof of being a man or woman. Anger is also a hallmark of resentment politics.
Third, there is the problem of fatherlessness. In times past, one of the most importance roles of fathers (and mothers and grandparents in the absence of the father) is to teach children how to management and control their anger. Nowadays kids don’t know how to handle conflict, reach compromises or forgive others. Of course not only parents are failing this role, so is society at large. We are so concerned about preventing kids from hurt feelings that they can’t handle situations in the real world.
All this is evident but obviously cannot be discussed by the Democrats in this nation of cowards and helicopter adults. So the carnage will continue and the ineffective “solutions” will proliferate.
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