On Tuesday, the Legislative Courts, Corrections, and Justice Committee met at the state Capitol in Santa Fe, where Democrat state representatives and senators discussed passing anti-gun bills to limit New Mexicans’ right to bear arms. Many Democrat legislators railed against law-abiding gun owners of New Mexico.
State Sen. Joseph Cervantes (D-Doña Ana) threatened to make parents felons and bankrupt them if they don’t lock up their firearms. He said, “You tell parents you’re gonna lose everything you own” if they don’t lock up guns. Cervantes added he wants to sue “manufacturers and marketers of guns” while saying, “Bring it on if you think the Constitution protects unfettered use and access of guns.” He then applauded Australia’s near-total ban on firearms.
Rep. Stefani Lord (R-Sandia Park) said during her commentary, “Before we start passing insane gun laws, we need to make sure they don’t get kicked back” on grounds of constitutionality.
State Rep. Gail Chasey (D-Bernalillo) claimed automatic firearms are “weapons of war.”
Rep. Moe Maestas (D-Bernalillo) chimed in, comparing guns to “nuclear bombs.” He said that “forty years ago, there was an SNL skit where Everyone was walking around with a nuclear bomb. So apparently, that’s come to fruition.”
Maestas, who is married to rabid anti-gun lobbyist Vanessa Alarid, claimed we need to rewrite the Constitution, which he referred to as “today’s constitution,” and honor “past decisions.” He bashed “the massive rampant use of firearms,” saying “we have sacrificed public safety on the altar of a firearm.”
He then demanded New Mexico nix open carry. Maestas opined, “There is no reason to have open carry,” claiming, “It’s just, it’s just poor public policy.”
Cervantes chastised Rep. Lord because she called Democrats’ partisan anti-gun bills “this stuff,” which he took offense to. “I know you’re new, but in time you will have regard for ‘this stuff,’” he told Lord.
Lord clapped back, telling him, “ am new, but I am not stupid, and I will stand up [against] things that are not good.”
As Cervantes continued to trash Lord, saying that is not how he runs his committee, she asked, “Can I counter-point since you’re chastising me?”
An attendee yelled from the gallery to Cervantes, “You’re a misogynistic d**k!”
During the public comment period, multiple members of the public were silenced, including Republican House District 51 nominee John Block, by the chairs despite coming to the defense of Rep. Stefani Lord. This is not the first time Block has been silenced by Chasey during committees. He told Chasey before being silenced, “Shame on you!”
U.S. Army veteran Casey Peterson addressed the Democrat chairs as “You incompetent tw**s.” When he began getting gaveled down based on his language, Peterson said, “Go to hell; I’ll use whatever language I want,” before being forcibly removed.
During the hearing, far-left Democrat Albuquerque-area legislators Dayan Hochman-Vigil and Pamelya Herndon released their plans to sponsor anti-gun bills in the 2023 Legislative Session. One measure would create and beef up the “Office of Gun Violence and Prevention,” which was initially funded $300,000 in the 2022 Legislative Session. Anti-gun activist Miranda Viscoli said the department, to be comparable with states like Colorado, needed approximately $3 million in funding.
Herndon proposed a bill forcing New Mexicans to lock up their firearms. If they did not, and their gun somehow was used in an offense by a minor, the parent of that child could be made a felon if the victim of the crime is killed or permanently disabled. As noted by even some Democrats in the chamber, the bill would be the first crime proposal to base a defendant’s sentence not on their own actions but that of someone else (a minor) who got ahold of a firearm.
During committee members’ questions in the committee over the proposal, questions were brought up about the bill’s poorly drafted language, vagueness, and ineffectiveness as a tool to supposedly root out violent offenses with guns.
Following the attacks on the Second Amendment by the legislators and their so-called experts, such as anti-gun activist Miranda Viscoli, Block released the following statement:
“The extremist attacks against our Second Amendment that we heard today from these far-left Santa Fe liberals shows they live in an alternate reality. We heard directly from these Democrats that they want to bankrupt working families, punish certain businesses, demonize law-abiding firearm owners, and idiotically compare life-saving firearms to ‘nuclear bombs.’ Guns save lives. These gun-hating radicals are the lowest scum of the earth, clinging to the bottom of the most disgusting cesspools in the Santa Fe Swamp. We The People will not be disarmed, and definitely not by these Constitution-hating radicals.”
They all have treason written all over them. They all took an oath to protect and uphold our Constitution, and they all broke that oath. They all should be reminded of what the penalty for treason is. SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED UPON are not merely words, and any citizen who gives up their guns to this tyrannical government are just plain stupid and should look at what happened to the people in countries like Australia and Venezuela.
Well said John , the public is fortunate to have people like you and Representative Lord to try to inject some sanity into what appears to me to be a communist mutual admiration society. These liberal idiots continue to degrade New Mexico and will turn it into Portland, Seattle or commifornia if they are not stopped. They don’t truly represent The public, only their communist masters . Either they are ignorant beyond belief, or they are truly malicious beyond belief, which is it?
Locking guns Up DON’T Work. several Years Back Some Kid KILLED His Mom Broke Into Her Gun Safe & Killed A Lot Of Kids At A School. Parents Of Killed Students Sued Gun Manufactires & Gun Safe Manufactures
Apparently these gasbag politicians either haven’t read or don’t understand the plain language of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights., which these “leaders” swore a holy oath “to protect and defend against all enemies, foreign or domestic” and by passing any law that infringes on citizens rights they open themselves to arrest. Any “laws” which restrict ANY rights of the people are illegitimate and are owed no deference.
The Right to keep and bear arms is a human right, a God Given right – not requiring any license issued by some damn government paid stooge and flunky. People have the natural right of self defense. The right to be secure in their homes.
The right to defend themselves and their families against all who would do them harm – no matter if the threat is from bandits and thieves or the mask wearing minions of a tyrant. This is a dangerous game these “socialist democratic” fascists play.
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms Shall not be Infringed..
Many of the comments I see and take time to read are mostly generic. The red flag law is unconstitutional, this is true and most educated people realize that.
The deeper lying issue is what is the main goal? Some think it is public safety (myth), many think it is an intrusion on your rights (fact).
The far-reaching intention is to turn this nation into a socialist hell hole, but they cannot do it with all the law-abiding gun owners. When and if the guns were confiscated, you would see a transformation overnight.
This has been a plan with the progressive left and even the right for 100 plus years.
Spot on. Please people once we are disarmed, America as we know and love, will vanish overnight!
Guns do not define Life, nor does the individual person but God!
We continue to murder and kill even without guns. We have become arrogant, selfish and do not have right to judge right or wrongs because we are ignorant and self-willed.
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness; even those long dead wanted all to have life, and the very reason died for us so we could live life abundantly!
Until the revolving door at the jailhouse , the open border and the sanctuary city policies are changed AND the current laws enforced the punks and criminals will run the state. You and I as law abiding gun owners are getting screwed!
Miranda Viscoli, is a Bloomberg shill that wants to turn New Mexico into California Lite. The “Office of Gun Violence and Prevention,” is just a smoke screen for promoting anti gun policies at the taxpayers expense. If you want to know where the NM legislators want to take you all you have to do is look at the failed state of California.