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Posted on 03/29/2026 8:41:14 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
A child or teenager will be arrested and charged with possessing a firearm on three out of four days in New Mexico...
“That number is way too high,” Benjamin Baker, senior public safety adviser to Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham told Republican members on the New Mexico GOP’s Public Safety Legislative Task Force...
He said that the Albuquerque Public Schools system has caught students bringing guns to school 10 times this academic year...
While elected Democrats and Republicans alike have called for legislative remedies to juvenile crime, members of the legislative task force on Monday voiced frustration with how their public safety proposals have failed to advance through the state Legislature. Multiple times, they mentioned Senate Bill 166, sponsored by Sen. Antonio “Moe” Maestas (D-Albuquerque) in this year’s regular session, which would have changed the state law’s definition of “a harm to self’ and ‘harm to others” to permit more people to be civilly committed to locked facilities. The bill cleared the Senate but died in the House.
“When we’re bringing this legislation,” said Rep. Nicole Chavez (R-Albuquerque), whose son was killed in a 2015 drive-by shooting, “they die in their first committee.”
Behind the dais at Monday’s meeting was a panel made up solely of Republicans. When discussion drifted toward partisan talking points, one senator was quick to defend the Democratic governor.
“Keeping New Mexico safe should not be a partisan issue,” said task force Co-Chair Sen. Crystal Brantley (R-Elephant Butte). “The far right is pretty quick to say ‘Well, crime is up, we’re the most dangerous state in the nation because we have a Democrat governor.’ The reality is, that’s not fair. We’re not even getting these bills to her desk.”
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Too many laws already
“That’s Not Fair!”
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Never
Go Full Retard !
At least the Washington Generals try to pretend they're the opposition some of the time.
Great comment!
NM Ping list.
Does he simply not learn? Maybe he should be locked up!
They seen too many Billy The Kid movies?
What percent are white kids who are protecting themselves from Hispanic juveniles?
Juveniles get juvenile justice.
Use juveniles for running drugs, and the job is done...
Why is it New Mexico had far less crime back BEFORE the democrats forced the 1968 gun control law on the entire USA?
Back then Guns were available at gas stations, liquor stores, hardware stores, sporting goods stores, clothing stores, book stores, record stores, grocery stores, Saddle shops, bus stations.
Cash and carry. No waiting period, no paperwork, no background checks. Just look old enough.
OR, you could chose one from the back of a hunting magazine, drop a check in the mail and it would be shipped right to your door. You could even order fully functional anti-tank rifles and ammo same way.
Yet the murder rate was very low back then and road rage was unheard of.
Then came the 1968 gun control bill ...and...
“Today we begin to disarm the criminal and the careless and the insane. All of our people who are deeply concerned in this country about law and order should hail this day.”-— Lyndon Johnson signing the 1968 gun control act into law.
And Thomas J. Dodd, who wrote the 1968 gun control act using the 1938 Nazi Weapons Law as a pattern...
“No one can predict how many lives will be spared because of this bill, but, if the bloody record of our yesterdays is any measure, millions of future Americans will live to enjoy the promise of many peaceful tomorrows.
I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play a part in this great moment in our time.”— Thomas J. Dodd on passage of the 1968 Gun control act.
HOW DID THAT DEMOCRAT PROMISE WORK OUT FOR YOU AMERICA!
There were very few mass killings before the 1970s. I can recall three since 1949. Most mental hospitals were closed in the 1970s. When that happened mass murders took off like a rocket.
What they won’t tell you is that the numbers are skewed because the same guy is caught and released, sometimes multiple times in a day. Being armed during a crime is apparently not enough to deny bail.
And they will not be punished so they will just keep doing it
So the Dems’ big proposal is to broaden definitions so as to increase “civil commitments”. Depending on the details, that provide missing tools to stop the relatively rare psychotic kids and trannies bent on mass shootings. But what percentage of youth bringing guns to school and/or committing violent crime are actually psychotics? Isn’t the real problem gangsters, wannabees, or people deathly afraid of them?
Does Moe’s bill fail because legislators don’t want to see crime as a mental health issue, opposing a slippery slope where problematic people are branded as mentally ill, Stalin-style?
Seems to me the “kids toting guns” problem could be much relieved by strict enforcement of criminal law, with swift, sure, tough punishment for offenders. People arm themselves either to intimidate/attack others, or to defend themselves from others (people or animals). NM’s troublesome element obviously fears their peers more than they do the Law and judicial punishment. Government needs to make the public safe by enforcing the Law. El Salvador has reduced the murder rate from over 100 to 1.6 per 100,000 by taking the repeat offenders out of circulation.
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