“Thoughts and prayers aren’t enough. We have to do something” - every stupid democrat in America after a shooting.


This ignorant t-wat governor did just what the leftist fools want to see happen everywhere

First Hispanic Woman Governor of New Mexico Susana Martinez Torches Michelle Lujan Grisham Over Gun Ban

Quote:In 2021, Republicans in the state legislature were calling New Mexico's crime a "public emergency" and requesting Lujan Grisham call a special session to address it.

Hailing the situation as a “public emergency,” Republican leaders recently penned a letter to Lujan Grisham where they called for immediate action based on their belief that “the increasing crime rate only seems to get worse with each passing day,” KOB4 reported.

Montoya stressed that nothing short of action will do.

"That's the real problem here,” he told KOB4. “We have a number of politicians who want to be soft on criminals and act like they are tough on crime.”

The circumstances surrounding that call for emergency response were similar: A middle schooler had been killed, and cops were being injured. Lujan Grisham's response at that time was anemic at best. This time? It's a "health emergency" that must be addressed, not by targeting criminal behavior, but law-abiding citizens.

Legal scholars like Jonathan Turley see trouble ahead, but this is all on brand for this Democrat. As a first-term governor, Lujan Grisham was a COVID lockdown zealot and pushed her population on vaccines and boosters. The state maintained one of the higher COVID infection rates, and despite being vaxxed and boosted, Lujan Grisham came down with COVID twice in 2022. Like California's Governor Hair Gel, Lujan Grisham held tightly to her emergency powers, maintaining the state's COVID restrictions on social distancing and mandates on masking, vaccines, and boosters through March of this year. So, she is just trading one form of hysteria for another, under the guise of public health. Many of us knew there would be a new pandemic push underway, and Lujan Grisham is revealing a page out of the Democrat playbook. Gun-grabbing is on the menu for 2024.

Lujan Grisham doesn't seem to care about the pushback or the criticism that she is getting from gun control advocates and even politicians in her own party. Two New Mexico Republican state senators are threatening her with impeachment, and the state House Republican lawmakers are filing a lawsuit against her in solidarity.

Icing on the cake: Lujan Grisham's predecessor, the 31st New Mexico Governor, First Hispanic Woman to hold the office, and Republican Susana Martinez has called her out. Lujan Grisham likes to claim the moniker of "First Democrat Hispanic Woman," so it's kind of hilarious that Martinez came out of retirement to throw some shade.

Preach it, sister.

While Martinez's website touts her record on fighting crime, Lujan Grisham's inconsistent record can be hung around her neck like an albatross. She has granted clemency to more prisoners than her predecessors, and has said little on New Mexico's bail reform, which has done nothing to mitigate crime. Like most major cities in the nation, Albuquerque's crime has only gotten worse; hence, why they are where they are. As a two-term governor, Martinez has the street cred to speak into the issue, and some New Mexico constituents are glad that she is.

Make no mistake: Lujan Grisham is using this to polish her higher ambitions. Whether she blinks on this matter or not, everybody now knows her name, which is the first step in seeking out rarer air. Lujan Grisham was on a shortlist for VP in 2020 but was not picked. So, besides being a good soldier for the Democrat agenda, Lujan Grisham sees this as an opportunity to put her naked ambition on full display while seeding the ground for the national push to grab your guns.

However this plays out, unlike Susana Martinez, Lujan Grisham likely will not make it through her second term in New Mexico.

WATCH: Bernalillo County Sheriff Eviscerates New Mexico Governor for 'Suspending' Gun Rights

Quote:The decision by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to "suspend" gun rights in Albuquerque, NM, has become a hot-button issue across the country.

Lujan Grisham first declared a public health emergency and then used that declaration as a justification for her executive order, which suspends open and concealed carry rights in areas deemed to have high rates of gun violence. The order is set to expire after 30 days, but the governor has indicated she will move to extend it if she deems it necessary.

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The entire thing is grossly unconstitutional. A governor does not have the right to void enumerated rights, and that includes gun rights derived from the Second Amendment. That any governor would even want to take that kind of action shows a deep sickness within them. Lujan Grisham appears to be a petty tyrant because she is a petty tyrant.

That wasn't lost on Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen, who did not mince words about the illegal order on Monday.

SHERIFF: We don't agree on this at all. This is unconstitutional, and like I said, I uphold my oath seriously. As far as meaning for Albuqurque specifically, I am putting everybody else, including every other politician, and everybody else as a leader to jump on board and work as a team. I said this last week. There was an article, and I wish this man would email me. He says the mayor, the sheriff, the AGs, the chief, they all have their own separate press conferences, I read all these editorials. What are they going to do together?

And that's why in the press conference when I was with the governor the other day I said "we are all here." Bernalillo County is a problem. The state of New Mexico has a problem with firearms. What do we do to stop the infiltration that are being used for violence and firearms. What can we do for Albuqurque? Show that there's a collaborative effort to stop the gun violence. That's all that we can do. As I said, there's not a magic wand, there's not one solution, there's a myriad of solutions, and I can't be the only one coming up with that, and that's why we have to work together as a team.

REPORTER: Sheriff, what do you tell the people who are afraid now that they might not be able to defend themselves having their concealed carry when you guys show up after it's already happened?

SHERIFF: That's a quick answer: We aren't enforcing it.

REPORTER: Sheriff, you mentioned that you're going to be calling for a special session with the governor, and I understand this news just broke Friday afternoon. It's Monday morning. Have you heard back from the governor yet (inaudible)...have you conversed with her at all (inaudible)?

SHERIFF: No, I have not. A lot of people have asked me how I feel. Shocked and irritated is all I had for the weekend. I have to turn my irritation and anger into solutions. That's something that I have to look at very seriously with the oath that I took in January 2023.

The change in the sheriff's tone is palpable compared to the original statement he put out, in which he didn't pointedly say no to enforcing Lujan Grisham's order. If there was any confusion, he cleared that up with his latest comments. He and his deputies will not enforce it, and he believes that the governor's move is flatly unconstitutional, to the point of causing him anger and irritation.

Constitutionality aside, you can understand why he'd be frustrated. The sheriff and his deputies are on the ground. They are the ones putting their lives on the line. They understand as much as anyone that it's tragic when children are killed by gun crimes. The governor put forth this order from her ivory tower, knowing it was unconstitutional, and turned the entire search for solutions into a joke.

As Allen says, there is no magic wand. You don't solve gun crime by taking virtue-signaling, unconstitutional actions to deny law-abiding citizens gun rights. In my opinion, Lujan Grisham did this to boost her profile for a future Senate or presidential run. She has thoroughly disqualified herself, though. I just hope enough Democrats agree because to reward her behavior would be catastrophic.

Quote:Michelle Lujan Grisham’s executive order banning the open and concealed carrying of firearms in Albuquerque, the argument over the best methods for combatting gun violence has jumped back into the national spotlight.

At the center of the story is Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen, who held a press conference on Monday in which he unequivocally declared that he would not be enforcing the governor’s order and called for a special session to create real solutions to the city’s problems with gun violence.

While addressing reporters, Sheriff Allen argued that Lujan Grisham’s “temporary ban challenges the foundations of our Constitution."

He continued:

My job is to keep the peace and to make sure that the citizens of Bernalillo County are safe. And I do not believe that this order will help me do so. I'm a law enforcement professional. This order will not do anything to curb gun violence other than punish law abiding citizens from their constitutional right to self-defense.

The sheriff then related a personal story involving his nephew, who became a victim of gun violence recently.

Let me give you a personal story. Last week, as I'm sitting here as the sitting sheriff, I get a phone call that my brother also was a victim of gun violence last week, that many of you do not know, while he and my nephew were sitting in their car, they were shot at and their vehicle was impacted by numerous rounds. How can I, as a sheriff, tell him to put his firearms away and not be able to protect himself?

I have a fact for you. Criminals do not follow the law or a public health order. Never seen it. We will never see criminals follow the law. Once again, this only punishes law abiding citizens. What I also want to address is what we're doing on the gun violence here in Bernalillo County and helping in the state of New Mexico.

The official then called for the state legislature to convene a special session to deal with crime rates. “I am respectfully requesting, as an elected official, to please consider a special session to specifically address crime, not just in Bernalillo County, but for the state of New Mexico,” he said. “We need to look at solutions to address violent crimes involving juveniles with firearms, adults with firearms, pretrial release, harsh state penalties for violent crimes which also involve a firearm.”

Sheriff Allen also explained that his office would be collaborating with Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller and the leadership of local and state police, along with the FBI and U.S. attorney “to curb gun violence and so many other crimes that we see in Bernalillo County.”

On Saturday, over 100 people gathered together to peacefully protest the governor's order. In a show of defiance, they carried rifles and handguns to express their support for the Second Amendment. State lawmakers have called for the governor’s impeachment over the matter. Allen’s comments come after several gun rights groups have filed lawsuits against Gov. Lujan Grisham to overturn the “emergency” order. It is not expected to survive the expected wave of court challenges.

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We should name Democrats a public emergency and ban them.

Ok, I know this is obvious to most people here, but let's ask, "Are leftists stupid, or do they just want to ban guns, no matter what?"

The only people who will comply with the carry ban are people who abide by the law. We all know criminals will continue to carry, and laugh at us law abiding idiots. You know, like the thieves in lib cities who walk in during broad daylight and clean out retail stores b/c they know nobody is going to do anything about it.

Just wait. Some good guy is going to shoot a robber, and NM will prosecute the would-be victim, not the criminal. Some world we have made for ourselves.

Get out of cities. Permanently leave them to the progressive idiots.

(09-07-2023 09:23 PM)andybible1995 Wrote:  

(09-07-2023 09:21 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Fat white women

Why are white women like this?

AWFLs

Pretty sure that this Governor thought that by doing this she'd be considered a "hero" by her party. Turns out people on both sides think she's a moron. Funny how that happened.

I just want to know when the NM Reps will bring out impeachment proceedings for this Castro wannabe. She took an oath of office to abide by the constitution when she was sworn in and she reneged on it by this act. I believe it's contempt of constitution. What an awful woman and she should change her name. She is tar and feathering every Hispanic with her name.

New Mexico Governor’s Explosive Response to Sheriff Over Gun Ban: ‘Stop Being Squeamish’

Quote:The debate over gun rights in New Mexico continues to rage after Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared gun violence a public health issue and banned the carrying of firearms in Albuquerque for 30 days. The move angered proponents of gun rights, who argued that the order violates the Second Amendment while leaving law-abiding citizens more vulnerable to violent criminals. Some state lawmakers called for Lujan Grisham’s impeachment.

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Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen on Monday told reporters that he would not enforce the governor’s order, arguing that it is unconstitutional and ineffective. But now, the governor has responded to the sheriff’s comments, defending the order and castigating him for not supporting it.

During Monday’s press conference, Allen explained why he would not be enforcing the order:

While addressing reporters, Sheriff Allen argued that Lujan Grisham’s “temporary ban challenges the foundations of our Constitution."

He continued:

My job is to keep the peace and to make sure that the citizens of Bernalillo County are safe. And I do not believe that this order will help me do so. I'm a law enforcement professional. This order will not do anything to curb gun violence other than punish law abiding citizens from their constitutional right to self-defense.

Gov. Lujan Grisham issued a harsh statement sent to KOAT, taking the sheriff to task for his comments:

I don’t need a lecture on constitutionality from Sheriff Allen: what I need is action. What we need is for leaders to stand up for the victims of violent crime. We need law enforcement, district attorneys, public officials, school leaders and state agencies to use every single tool at their disposal to stop this violence. Period.

This is an administration that has treated the gun violence epidemic as the crisis that it is. We’ve passed common-sense gun legislation, including red flag laws, domestic violence protections, a ban on straw purchases, and safe storage laws; dedicated hundreds of millions of dollars to a fund specifically to help law enforcement hire and retain officers; increased penalties for violent offenders and provided massive support to intervention programs.

We've given you the tools, Sheriff Allen— now stop being squeamish about using them. I will not back down from doing what’s right and I will always put the safety of the people of New Mexico first.”

(09-12-2023 08:04 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  Get out of cities. Permanently leave them to the progressive idiots.

This

(09-12-2023 01:53 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  

(09-12-2023 08:04 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  Get out of cities. Permanently leave them to the progressive idiots.

This

Easier said than done. The jobs of importance are in the cities. You can't support a family picking lettuce or driving a tractor as a farm hand.

First Dem legislator breaks silence on MLG’s anti-gun order

Quote:The first Democrat legislator finally broke their silence, with state Sen. Joseph Cervantes (D-Doña Ana County) writing on Twitter, “Having passed key gun safety laws working with her administration, I call on the Governor to rescind her order outlawing arms.”

He further wrote, “An unconstitutional approach undermines the important collaboration gun issues deserve, and the important role of a Governor to lead genuine reforms.”

There has not been a single Democrat legislator publicly coming out in support of the governor’s unconstitutional order as of publication.

I haven't kept up with this, but where are the lawsuits? Seems like they would have been filed within an hour.

(09-12-2023 02:41 PM)fsquid Wrote:  I haven't kept up with this, but where are the lawsuits? Seems like they would have been filed within an hour.

3 were filed over the Weekend.

At this point, it is getting close to the point where only war is going to solve many of the problems facing the country and even then it could give credence to the far left to do more. Sucks, hopeuflly the courts strike down the order since it is unconstitutional.

(09-12-2023 02:42 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

(09-12-2023 02:41 PM)fsquid Wrote:  I haven't kept up with this, but where are the lawsuits? Seems like they would have been filed within an hour.

3 were filed over the Weekend.

Good.