There’s an old saying that goes, “If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.” That’s generally good advice in that it means that you shouldn’t get into a fight that you can’t finish (and win).
That advice should especially apply to the idea of starting a fight. Don’t do it unless you can win it (and in the case of an actual physical fight, don’t start one at all. Try to avoid them if at all possible).
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, who you may remember implemented a gun ban in parts of her state (see here for more about that), may have started to get that concept recently.
Or, more likely, she knew that she couldn’t win, so, she gave up before she got a black eye in court.
The important thing, though, is that she did give up her illegal gun ban. Zachary Stieber writes,
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Oct. 16 announced that she is letting a ban on firearms expire, about a year after it was first imposed.
Grisham issued an executive order in September 2023 banning guns at public places such as parks in Bernalillo County, which includes Albuquerque.
The order was later narrowed to apply only to parks and playgrounds.
“The public health order, though temporary, allowed us to implement urgent and necessary measures that have had a measurable, positive effect on public safety in our state,” Grisham said in a statement. “I have decided to allow the public health order to expire, but our fight to protect New Mexico communities from the dangers posed by guns and illegal drugs will continue.”
Now, if that last paragraph were true, if the gun ban has “had a measurable, positive effect on public safety,” do you really think that she would be allowing the ban to expire instead of fighting it in court?
No, of course not. At least not if the gun ban was really about saving lives.
And, conveniently, the ban is expiring while in the middle of a lawsuit about the constitutionality of the ban. It looks suspiciously like she couldn’t handle the heat from the fire that she started.
Let’s be frank here, though. The ban was never really about saving lives. It was about controlling the people in that state and preventing people from being able to resist tyrannical governments. You know, governments like hers.