{"id":2697,"date":"2023-12-20T11:35:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T11:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2023-12-20T11:35:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T11:35:28","slug":"her-claims-to-the-contrary-new-mexico-governors-gun-control-public-health-order-has-been-a-dismal-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2697","title":{"rendered":"Her Claims to the Contrary, New Mexico Governor&#8217;s Gun Control &#8216;Public Health&#8217; Order Has Been a Dismal Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lujan.jpg\" data-caption=\"Courtesy KOB\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lujan-696x392.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lujan-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lujan-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lujan-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lujan-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lujan-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lujan-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lujan-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lujan-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lujan-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lujan.jpg 1744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham\" title=\"New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy KOB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a recent social media post, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/new-mexicos-gov-michelle-lujan-grisham-couldnt-be-prouder-of-her-unconstitutional-gun-control-damp-squib\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her executive order<\/a> that tried to hijack public health and weaponize it against the Second Amendment (not to mention Article II, Section 6 of the state\u2019s constitution) was somehow working to reduce \u201cgun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ICYMI: Our Public Health Order on guns is WORKING: \u2714\ufe0f219 guns seized<br \/>\u2714\ufe0f439 guns safely surrendered at buybacks<br \/>\u2714\ufe0f2,490 bad guys arrested<br \/>\u2714\ufe0fArrests DOUBLED b\/w Sept and Nov<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Oy2FHYDZVG\">https:\/\/t.co\/Oy2FHYDZVG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (@GovMLG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovMLG\/status\/1735309255555604878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As support, she offered a link to <em>NM Political Report<\/em>, but she apparently wasn\u2019t aware that the article just reprinted what she had announced and didn\u2019t offer any additional analysis to prove her claims. So, as is her usual practice, she\u2019s offering a lot <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2023\/09\/11\/its-high-time-for-nms-governor-to-stop-the-political-stunts-get-to-work-on-evs-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more style than substance<\/a>, offering the state nothing more than a self-inflating bag of hot air.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor fails to mention that not only was the centerpiece of her unconstitutional order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/just-deserts-new-mexico-governor-grishams-authoritarian-power-grab-has-crashed-and-burned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed in court<\/a> (banning concealed carry in Bernalillo County), but her entire approach to the issue has been roundly mocked by both the left and the right. Even public health professionals invited by the Democrat Party for a congressional hearing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/senate-dems-self-own-as-their-own-experts-testify-that-gun-control-hinders-real-public-health-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">think she\u2019s on the wrong track<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s look at the numbers she gave to the press for them to uncritically regurgitate. They sound impressive on the surface, with hundreds of guns taken off the streets and thousands of \u201cbad guys\u201d arrested. But, when you look at her talking points individually and in context, these numbers are just more hot air.<\/p>\n<p>Seized guns? The black and grey market in the state will quickly replace them. The 219 guns she claims were confiscated isn\u2019t even a carload. Criminals will be back on the streets with new guns in hand in no time.<\/p>\n<p>How about those gun \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/new_mexico\/article_0cc6d180-7a89-11ee-8e15-b3b9f87dafff.html\">buybacks<\/a>\u201c? I know from talking to people who were there that only a handful of people sold dozens of rusted junk guns at the Las Cruces event before it ran out of money. No actual guns used by criminals or that would realistically be used in future crimes were picked up at these events. It was just a total waste of money.<\/p>\n<p>What about the arrests? Let\u2019s keep in mind that New Mexico\u2019s criminal justice system isn\u2019t adequately described as \u201crevolving door.\u201d It\u2019s more like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E6F0IhdaaWI\"><em>The Big Rock Candy Mountains<\/em><\/a> where all the cops have wooden legs, the jails are made of tin, and you can walk right out again as soon as you are in.<\/p>\n<p>In the rare occasions that cops feel comfortable actually making arrests, suspects are back out on the street almost right away, committing even more serious crimes because they know they can get away with it.<\/p>\n<p>If Governor Grisham had provided some conviction and incarceration numbers to support her claim of progress, maybe we could take her seriously, but she knows she doesn\u2019t have them. Talk privately to any law enforcement officer in the state and they\u2019ll tell you that things aren\u2019t gong well, no matter what the big boss says in front of the media.<\/p>\n<p>In sum, what we have here is a wanna-be doctor who just slapped a band-aid over a sucking chest wound and is now bragging about the great job she\u2019s done. The hole\u2019s covered up, but the deep problems New Mexico has have not been addressed.<\/p>\n<p>There are still roving gangs of near-homeless people scouring the state for any property that\u2019s not bolted down so they can trade it for more fentanyl. For adults, the economics are terrible and poverty is rampant. For kids, the future is terrible because the state still has among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/rankings\/education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the worst educational systems<\/a>, which will only lead to even more poverty.<\/p>\n<p>If Governor Grisham was serious at all, she would have spent her time in office trying to solve these problems. But she didn\u2019t and she won\u2019t. She\u2019s more interested in empty grand gestures meant to appease her far left, anti-gun base. It\u2019s just another pathetic attempt to distract gullible, low information voters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/her-claims-to-the-contrary-new-mexico-governors-gun-control-public-health-order-has-been-a-dismal-failure\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy KOB In a recent social media post, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham claimed that her executive order that tried to hijack public health and weaponize it against the Second Amendment (not to mention Article II, Section 6 of the state\u2019s constitution) was somehow working to reduce \u201cgun violence.\u201d ICYMI: Our Public Health Order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}