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Even Liberals Know That New Mexico's Governor Issued an Illegal Gun Control Order
Townhall.com ^ | 9 September A.D. 2023 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 09/09/2023 7:38:51 PM PDT by lightman

When some of the most vocal anti-gun activists call out New Mexico’s governor for going off the reservation on her recent anti-gun order, you know it’s unhinged. It’s also illegal. In the wake of a series of shootings in Albuquerque, Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham banned open and concealed carry for 30 days, using public health orders to enforce this ordinance (via AP):

New Mexico governor declares gun violence a public health emergency https://t.co/FH09tdkbuf — KOAT.com (@koat7news) September 8, 2023

The Democratic governor said she is expecting legal challenges but felt compelled to act in response to gun deaths, including the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old boy outside a minor league baseball stadium this week.

The firearms suspension is tied to a threshold for violent crime rates that only the Albuquerque area currently meets. Police are exempt from the temporary ban on carrying firearms.

Lujan Grisham said the restrictions “are going to pose incredible challenges for me as a governor and as a state.”

“I welcome the debate and fight about how to make New Mexicans safer,” she said at a news conference, flanked by leading law enforcement officials, including the district attorney for the Albuquerque area.

Her legal reasoning is a shambles, and I would hope the many pro-Second Amendment advocacy groups nationwide are speaking with lawyers to challenge this order, which is unconstitutional. The landmark Bruen decision addressed these sorts of anti-gun pushes. Recommended By Every Historical Precedent, the Next Act Will be War Mark Lewis

New Mexico’s Governor is convinced that her duty to the Constitution is “not absolute.” pic.twitter.com/jc67bRpfpf — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 9, 2023

Dear New Mexico Law Enforcement:@GovMLG issued a blatantly unconstitutional decree infringing our God-given rights to keep and bear arms.

You could face significant federal criminal and civil liability, if you enforce her illegal order.

"Just following orders" won't save you. https://t.co/rnWIz2F70a pic.twitter.com/dijRcvTgEi — 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) September 9, 2023

When David Hogg and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), some of the most active gun control folks out there, are telling Grisham to slow her roll while also calling her out for making up legal statutes, it's a pretty good sign that this order doesn’t have much chance to be upheld in court. You can’t just do whatever you want, Michelle. We fought a pivotal war when a king from a particular English-speaking Island nation tried to do the same here in the 18th century.

I support gun safety but there is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution. https://t.co/6GfbOZLc7g — David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) September 9, 2023

I support gun safety laws. However, this order from the Governor of New Mexico violates the U.S. Constitution. No state in the union can suspend the federal Constitution. There is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution. https://t.co/kOhLMtaOl2 — Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) September 9, 2023

Agreed https://t.co/Z7tGLWt4U4 — David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) September 9, 2023

Holy sh*t is hell freezing over? pic.twitter.com/jufXVasmU1 — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 9, 2023


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; albuquerque; banglist; rkba
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Must be Michelle Lujan Grisham's "time of the month".
1 posted on 09/09/2023 7:38:51 PM PDT by lightman
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To: lightman

Even liberals know the election was stolen and Trump is being persecuted via trumped up charges for no other reason than to steal another election. But liberals are trash and applaud the above.


2 posted on 09/09/2023 7:41:45 PM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: lightman

Lock her up.

Sounds good, anyway.


3 posted on 09/09/2023 7:42:21 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: PROCON; CedarDave

Ping.


4 posted on 09/09/2023 7:43:00 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

This makes about as much sense as masking up and taking the covid shot.


5 posted on 09/09/2023 7:45:00 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: lightman

Another “we don’t know unless we try” Alinsky tactic.


6 posted on 09/09/2023 7:46:40 PM PDT by 100%FEDUP
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To: lightman

That would seem to be an impeachable offense at the very least.


7 posted on 09/09/2023 7:48:17 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: lightman

“Public health order”

If she gets away with this every rats will try it. In fact, it’s the BS power grab the Biden and the rats want use for their fascist climate emergency


8 posted on 09/09/2023 7:50:47 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: LouAvul

Dems now openly acting like the fascists they are.

If no one stands up to the neighborhood bully, they will continue to act with impunity.

Look at how they now brazenly steal elections with impunity.
Look at how they crassly use the legal system to persecute their political enemies.
Look at how they use law enforcement to entrap and jail American citizens for merely protesting their stolen elections.
Look at how they refuse to keep illegals from crossing into our country.

We would better off and more protected if we had Russians controlling this country than these treasonous Democrats.


9 posted on 09/09/2023 7:52:01 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: lightman
End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 9, 2023

The whole point of Wokeness is to destroy the meaning of words, and thus, destroy the Constitution and the Republic.

10 posted on 09/09/2023 7:53:48 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: lightman

Now watch as the state police blindly enforce the decree to keep their paycheck and retirement.

Back the blue? No.


11 posted on 09/09/2023 7:56:02 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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No state in the union can suspend the federal Constitution.

Except when it comes to "sanctuary" immigration laws.

-PJ

12 posted on 09/09/2023 7:56:12 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: lightman

There should be a penalty for violating the Oath of Office.

The office she competed for.
The office she took voluntarily.

I can not imagine a penalty too harsh


13 posted on 09/09/2023 8:03:37 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: Political Junkie Too

And for “public health emergencies”...or have you forgotten the Ides of March 2020 when freedom of worship and assembly were trampled upon in the name of “keeping everyone ‘safe’”?


14 posted on 09/09/2023 8:10:19 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Maybe this bitch should run for governor of Cuba.


15 posted on 09/09/2023 8:14:45 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: AlaskaErik

Less sense. The shots were somewhat effective, though with bad side effects. This will exacerbate the problem.


16 posted on 09/09/2023 8:22:56 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: lightman
And for “public health emergencies”...

She's using the state's "public health emergency" laws to hide her gun ban diktat.

-PJ

17 posted on 09/09/2023 8:27:44 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

Yup.

And that scaremongering will be used for generations yet unborn because “we the sheeple” have shown that we† prefer “health, safety, and security” over LIBERTY.

Ben Franklin and the other signatories of the Declaration of Independence deserve a far more courageous legacy.

†not ALL of us!


18 posted on 09/09/2023 8:32:24 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

It is illegal, but other leftist pols are watching to see how it play out.

If the court takes the case, will it/they uphold or dismiss?

If the court refuses the case, will pols do anything?

If she gets away with it — because it is an emergency order — look for every leftist in a position of power to find ways to circumvent the constitutional rights of citizens — because of feigned emergencies.


19 posted on 09/09/2023 8:33:30 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: lightman

May ms. lujan have a bad hair day. May ms. lujan jave too bitter a coffee, no matter how many sweeteners she ppours into it.May ms. lujan’s banccard of choicd be copied at a gas pump. May ms. lujan have indigestkon crom a baf bakery item grom her favorite vcoffee shop. May ms. lujan’s pet develop diarrhea overnight. May ms. lujan’s cellphone die a mysterious electronic death, after a weekend of fun filled photos. May ms. lujan’s house be visited by fire ants. May ms. lujan’s car lunk to a stop in traffic.
May ms. lujan do a mitch mcconnell.


20 posted on 09/09/2023 8:41:27 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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