ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico’s high prosecutor says he can not undertake a protection of the governor’s public well being order that suspends the best to hold firearms in public.

State Attorney General Raúl Torrez stated Tuesday in a letter to the governor that gun violence can't be rebranded as a public well being emergency to justify a blanket prohibition in opposition to carrying firearms.

He stated he agrees with the necessity to begin a debate on the devastating influence of gun violence and urged the Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to think about whether or not her time could be higher spent in growing complete laws as a substitute.

The transfer exposes a divide between Lujan Grisham and Torrez, the state’s top-ranked elected Democrats, as they reply to a rash of gun violence and deadly shootings that claimed the lives of youngsters.

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