New Mexico Bans Second Amendment Rights

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So effective immediately, no person, other than a law enforcement officer or licensed security officer, shall possess a firearm, either openly or concealed. We are suspending open and concealed. Yes. All the examples you cited are crimes, kids shooting at other kids, shooting from cars. So what's the value of the Civil Order? Why not just do it in better law enforcement? The value of the Order is, is that it gives me three things. One, it says it's a statewide issue and it's a message to everyone to start leveraging your resources and arresting people. Two, the jurisdictions come at this, including with the DOJ restrictions differently, without the leveraging and the additional resources arresting and where do they go? We've got to make sure that everyone is bumping up their services. It's a message to the metropolitan detention center. It's a message to the HMOs. You better figure out treatment. We have been sort of stalled out to your point. This order basically says, stop stalling out into your point. Just arrest everyone. Well, I also have to have the ability, I can't arrest everyone. There are literally too many people to arrest. This would have been a lot less. Someone got to consider it for really an elbow, for walking on a public street. They're not going to get arrested. I can make the point that they may be they should be. And this is the point. I'm willing to do anything and everything within a shred of evidence-based effort. Because if you're not horrified that on any street corner in too many cities in New Mexico, there is someone with a gun sticking out of their waist or their belt. And I'll tell you, if you're a young person, you're not allowed to have a handgun. I got it. But we won't be able to arrest all of them. So imagine, just in a perfect world, if this was upheld, it gives all of these police officers the ability to focus on the real criminals. Last follow-up. But your point is about. You took an oath to the Constitution. Isn't it unconstitutional to say you cannot exercise your carrying license? With one exception. And that is, if there's an emergency, and I've declared an emergency for a temporary amount of time, I can invoke additional powers. No constitutional right in my view, including my oath, is intended to be absolute. There are restrictions on three speech. There are restrictions on my freedoms. In this emergency, this 11 year old, and all these parents who have lost all these children, they deserve my attention to have the debate about whether or not in an emergency we can create a safer environment. Because what about their constitutional rights? I took an oath to uphold those two. And if we ignore this growing problem without being bold, I've said to every other in the Mexican, your rights are subjugated to theirs. And they are not in my view. You said about crimes. There are a lot of crimes. So how are they right? But again, if I'm unsafe, who's standing up for that right? If this climate is so out of control, somebody should do something. I'm doing as much as I know to do. Madam, do you really think that criminals are going to hear this message and not carry a gun, the carpey, on the streets for 30 days? No. But here's what I do think. It's a pretty resounding message.