I'm not passionate on gun rights. I don't want them taken away, but I think Liberals have destroyed family and culture so much - that many Americans can't be trusted with a gun.

I'm curious how you think liberals have done this?

I do agree that many Americans can't be trusted with a gun. Especially those that have their heads so far up the right-wing conspiracy theory Q-blogosphere that they can't distinguish reality from fantasy (not saying anyone here is like that...but we have numerous examples in the media, including at least five of which are being sentenced this past week and next week). They have been so primed by Alex Jones, and his ilk, that they are on a hair-trigger. A lot of people have no business owning firearms, but we have no mechanism for screening them (e.g. the "crazies", often referred to by the right as people who shouldn't be able to buy one).

I don't know, and really don't care, what the NM law is on governor's powers. I agree with Lapsody that it was probably an unwise move, and the governor may pay for it in the polls. Maybe you are correct that there will be a RED backlash. That's NM's problem. I do think you are, at the very least, hyperbolic calling the governor a "Stalinist". I suppose she could be, but I doubt it.

Also, I will again point out that the ban is on carrying in public. Not possessing. Last I knew there were a lot of places you couldn't carry. Like all schools, any federal facilities and governmental buildings, etc. A quick check reveals that open-carry is illegal in FL(!!), IL, NY, HI, and parts of CA. Several more states require permits for open-carry. Some variability between pistols and "long guns" (e.g. TN bans open carry of long guns). NM allows both with no permits.