Guns Have More Protections than Children

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

New Mexico Governor Michelle Luhan Grisham did something very bold this week in an effort to protect children in her state's largest city from gun violence.  There has recently been a spate of child deaths and injuries in Albuquerque that were due, in large part, to the ready availability of guns in that metropolitan area - and Luhan Grisham felt that she could not just stand by and let the carnage continue.   

This week Governor Michelle Luhan Grisham said that she has had enough of the senseless killing of children, and she announced a 30-day ban on the "right" to carry guns in the public spaces and state office buildings of Albuquerque.  When she made her announcement, Luhan Grisham said that she knew her edict would be challenged in court, but she felt something had to be done.  She declared shootings in Albuquerque to be a public health emergency, and, as the governor of the state of New Mexico, she took a pro-active action to remedy that health problem.

Predictably, the heavens opened and the righteous wrath of gun owners quickly rained down on the parched deserts of New Mexico.

Republicans love to point their fingers and react in horror to crime in areas controlled by Democrats, but when leaders try to fix the problem, they had best not be coming for Joe Bob's guns.  And Luhan Grisham is, of course, a Democrat.

There was a lawsuit filed on Day One by a gun rights' group, and a whole host of politicians of both parties lined up to say they would not enforce the governor's new policy - including one Democratic prosecutor whom she had appointed.

In 1881, the city of Tombstone, Arizona, was facing an onslaught of gun violence, and it enacted a city ordinance that prohibited the open carrying of guns in that Wild West hellhole - and Virgil Earp enforced it.  There was a crime problem and politicians fixed it. 

The point is that thoughts an prayers don't impact gun violence - at all - and the only way to reduce the number of children dying from gun violence is to enact sensible regulations for gun ownership and use.  But Joe Bob doesn't have time to be bothered with background checks, waiting periods, gun safety training, or even securing his weapons at home.   Joe Bob knows that one day the government will come for his guns like those libtards did in Tombstone, and when it does he will need all of the quick firepower he can muster.

And if Joe Bob, Junior takes his daddy's unsecured, high-powered  guns to school and murders his classmates, well . . . shit happens.

Thank you Governor Michelle Luhan Grisham for having the courage to address a serious public health issue that most politicians run from.  Children are more important than guns, and people who believe otherwise are less than human.