New Mexico’s top prosecutor says he cannot undertake a defense of the governor’s public health order that suspends the right to carry firearms in public
State Attorney General Raúl Torrez said Tuesday in a letter to the governor that gun violence cannot be rebranded as a public health emergency to justify a blanket prohibition against carrying firearms.
Many of the 70 people gathered on Albuquerque's Civic Plaza wore T-shirts in support of the right to bear arms, while others waved American flags and held signs reading: “Do Not Comply.” “But to ban the largest city and the most populous county in the state simply because bad people engaged in bad behavior seems overkill,” said Abramson, who is also a lawyer. “It's not the law-abiding citizen that is the problem.”
The sheriff who oversees Bernalillo County and the police chief in Albuquerque said they won’t enforce the governor's order because it violates constitutional rights. State Police spokesman Ray Wilson said late Monday that no citations had been issued by his agency. “Now she’s punishing us for the problem she created,” he said, adding that the perpetual violence in Albuquerque has left residents scared to walk to their cars to go to work in the mornings.“As governor, it's my job to take action and put New Mexicans' safety first — not complain about problems we are elected to solve,” she said in a social media post over the weekend on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The Catholic Church was among the few who joined longtime gun-control advocates on Monday in support of the order. The Most Rev. John C. Wester, archbishop of the Diocese of Santa Fe, insisted the governor is “not attacking the Second Amendment.”
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