This may not be an accident. She knows the US and New Mexico Constitutions forbid government infringement on a citizen’s “right to keep and bear arms,” and Supreme Court has spoken, yet she did it anyway. She knows a ban on self-defense is illegal, yet she did it. Time to speak boldly: This is wrong. The anti-gun nuts … are coming.
Yes, the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution states that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Yes, the New Mexico Constitution, at Article 2, section 6, further says “No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes.”
Still, the Democrat Governor – caring not a twit about those longstanding provisions and caselaw – like Governors who decided COVID permitted stripping Americans of free speech, free exercise of religion, travel, and a right not to be compelled to be injected by the government (or face loss of job, education, travel, and right to serve) – did it again.
She knowingly ignored the law, just threw a ban on guns outside the home, and declared that new edict the law. Where is justice? Where is respect for those two Constitutions?
Specifically, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham just “issued an emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public…for at least 30 days…” across her state.
“The Democratic governor said she expects legal challenges but was 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” – calling it “an emergency public health order.” Really?
Her order – as she knows – explicitly defies both Constitutions and recent Supreme Court cases and is facially unconstitutional, yet she has effectively given the citizens of her state, as well as those who framed both Constitutions and the High Court, her middle finger. She does not care.
Is this the “new norm?” The Supreme Court rules that student loans cannot be forgiven by the Executive without Congressional action, yet the President ignores the Court, does it anyway. The High Court rules Roe v, Wade is no longer law, yet the top two Democrats cry payback, and a Supreme Court Justice – unprotected by a Democrat Attorney General – is nearly assassinated.
A former President gains in the polls, leads the field – shares popularity greater than Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny – and is then indicted, prosecuted by Biden surrogates at the state and federal level, arrested with intent that he not run or win the race, and headed for prison.
Is Biden studying Putin? Is New Mexico’s Grisham studying Biden? And what is next? Perhaps not coincidentally, Biden s watched Putin get his opposition arrested in 2014, then get him barred him from running for President in 2018, despite international law scholars objecting.
Intent on power, Putin then had him poisoned (or that is the suspicion), from which he recovered, then had him jailed when he returned from exile in 2021. The parallel is ominous: Those in power hate to give up power, those seeking to vindicate the people are arrested and shackled.
Frankly, I watched this happen all over the world as an Assistant Secretary of State and in the military, just never imagined it would occur on US soil. Many will say, “but, but, but …” and I say, “yes, but …” Then halt your defense, and examine the Constitution, our caselaw, and ask yourself – is your security based on the idea that nothing like that can happen here? It can.
The evidence is right before us It began in 2020, with the idea that longstanding citizen rights could be taken, under the color of an “emergency public health order.” The Supreme Court, presently led by Constitutionalists, overturned those federal and state infringements.
But it took time, and people lost jobs, businesses, opportunities to worship together, travel, hold jobs in law enforcement, the military and private sector. They were punished for asserting their constitutional rights.
Now we get this, a governor who, following the lead of Mr. Biden, himself oddly shadowing behavior of Mr. Putin, including defense of China for no reason credible legal reason – has decided to outlaw guns.
Sometimes, as Plato so eloquently wrote, we read things in “shadows on the cave wall,” and we are well served to watch, think, seek sun and then ponder what those shadows portend.
The New Mexico Governor’s actions may not be an accident. Either way, they are illegal. They show knowing disrespect for our Constitution, the Supreme Court, and her State Constitution. There is no legal justification. Time to speak boldly: This is wrong. Anti-gun nuts are coming.
Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, attorney, and naval intelligence officer (USNR). He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (2018), and is National Spokesman for AMAC.
