California's Governor Newsom is proving himself to be a total twit. He's not only usurping the Constitution by preventing Trump's name being on the 2020 ballot if he won''t release his tax returns, but he's now come out with a rant about gun prohibition.
He says that the Second Amendment doesn't give you the right to own "weapons of mass destruction," so he's going to decide what type of guns constitute such a weapon and he'll ban and/or confiscate them regardless of what the Supreme Court rules. California already has a law that you can't go out of state, buy guns and bring them back into California. But, the Gilroy mass shooter moved to Nevada, lived there, legally bought the guns there, and then moved back to California. One of the guns the shooter bought is illegal in California. So... why wasn't he stopped and arrested at the border?
In making his tirade, Newsom fails to mention that the Garlic Festival was a "gun free zone." Nevertheless, the shooter managed to come through an opening in the fence. Wouldn't it be proper to say that the cops and/or event security are to blame for allowing the shooter onto the premises with a gun? It doesn't matter that they didn't know there was a hole in the fence; they had a duty to secure entry... period.
The point here is this: It doesn't matter what gun laws you enact; if someone really wants to commit a gun crime, you can't stop them with a law. All you can do is punish the innocent, law-abiding gun owners by piling on more laws. Or, you could set about identifying the root causes of crime and then mitigating them. But, what do I know? I'm just a racist, deplorable, law-abiding citizen who owns a bunch of guns and a pile of ammo and has yet to shoot anybody after 65 years of owning them. And I don't need one of Newsom's ill-reasoned laws to tell me that I shouldn't shoot anyone, either.
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