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Surge Summary: Attempted firearm’s ban in Albuquerque reveals Democrats commitment to focus on anything but the actual lawbreakers in their attempts to deal with crime and gun violence.
by Rob Morse
What do you do when bad political decisions get set into dogma? If you’re a Democrat politician, then you ignore the facts and blame the people that your donors love to hate. That is exactly what we’re seeing play out in the violence in Albuquerque, New Mexico. To start, violent crime has been surging in Albuquerque for years. The first rule of politics is that you can’t appear powerless or irrelevant. Political realities rear their head and even the state governor is precluded from doing what works to reduce crime. So why did the Governor ban honest gun owners from Albuquerque? It is sad to be Democrat Governor Michelle Grisham.
The obvious thing to do is to arrest violent inner-city criminals who break the law. Unfortunately, democrat talking points claim that unfair law enforcement is a root cause of violent crime rather than the antidote to stop it. Democrats are supported by an urban voter base so they can’t arrest these violent criminals and risk alienating their demographic. Democrats had a narrow urban base of support in 2020, and Covid allowed millions of us to leave the city and work remotely.
The poor governor can’t blame the victims and claim they shouldn’t hang at the wrong clubs late at night; calling it the wrong place at the wrong time. Most of the victims are inner-city residents. Many are immigrant minorities. The democrats can’t afford to alienate these voting blocks either. The recent victims were young children in their home or innocently at play, so this is the opposite of gang-on-gang violence.
You can’t blame the economy and the lack of legal employment since Democrats are in the Whitehouse, the US Senate, and Democrats also control all the branches of New Mexico government. You can’t blame open borders and open immigration for driving down the average wage. The slipping job market isn’t a winning issue since it is the problem you created after you took over from Republicans and the Trump economy.
You don’t dare blame the parents or schools. Democrats have led the charge in saying that parental arrangements are all the same. In fact, fewer parents in the home are probably better than the intact, married-two-parent family since broken families leave more room for social workers and teachers to “fix” any conservative political beliefs. Given the donation of teachers unions to the Democrat party, you wouldn’t want to ever blame teachers.
That means you live in a political house of mirrors and all your past vices now point right back at you. You are out of political options, so you have to blame the inanimate objects like guns, except that doesn’t hold up to even the quickest examination.
Violent crime is localized to failed democrat controlled cities while legally owned firearms are ubiquitous. Licensed concealed carriers are more law abiding than the police. By a huge factor, licensed concealed carry holders stop more violent crimes than they cause. You’re depending on a complicit news media to bury those facts for you. While that works most of the time, it doesn’t work all the time.
Your executive order to disarm honest citizens doesn’t need to actually reduce violent crime. You’ve admitted it won’t in news interviews. Your order only needs to provide cover for the failed democrats and to get you more campaign donations from anti-rights billionaires like Michael Bloomberg.
We’ve seen that cities are uninhabitable when you don’t prosecute criminals. San Francisco and Seattle are some of the fastest shrinking cities in the US. Cities are shockingly dangerous when you don’t raise children in an intact family. Yes, a village can raise a child, but they do it badly and feral children become dangerous adults. There is no substitute for parents, and I’m saying that as an adoptive parent and a foster parent.
In this case, Governor Gresham’s executive order to ban licensed concealed carriers from the city of Albuquerque didn’t pass the smell test even if it helps the democrat mayor and city council out of the political mass they’ve made. The county sheriff isn’t supporting it. The local district attorney isn’t defending it. The optics look so bad that the state’s democrat attorney general can’t support it. Even a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order stopping law enforcement officers from acting on the governor’s order.
That is the perfect outcome given the twisted and cynical politics of the day. Now, governor, you can look at the ongoing violence in Albuquerque and blame the judge. Without evidence, you can claim that your executive order would have saved lives. The sycophant media are sure to nod their head and agree while the rest of us try to clean up your mess.
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