Gavin Newsom’s campaign to repeal the Second Amendment
Opinion by Washington Examiner • 4h ago

California Gov. Gavin Newsom answers questions about the state's flood preparedness plan during a press conference Tuesday, April 25, 2023, in Corcoran, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom answers questions about the state's flood preparedness plan during a press conference Tuesday, April 25, 2023, in Corcoran, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Whatever else Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) campaign for a 28th Amendment gets wrong about guns, at least it implicitly admits that the Democratic Party’s gun control wish list is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. After all, why propose an amendment if the Constitution doesn't forbid what you want to accomplish?

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Leaving Newsom’s admission aside, however, his 28th Amendment would accomplish nothing, at least nothing good. At worst, it would lay the legal groundwork for confiscating every gun in the United States.

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Newsom has offered no text for his amendment, only four “principles” he wants written into it. This allows him to propose “barring civilian purchase of assault weapons” without ever having to define exactly what an "assault weapon" is.

Define it too narrowly and gun manufacturers will create new models that skirt the definition. Define it too broadly by saying it is “any semi-automatic firearm with a detachable magazine,” for example, and you outlaw almost half the handguns in the nation. If the text of Newsom’s 28th Amendment is ever written, he’ll have to choose. The first option renders his amendment useless; the second would mean it never gets the votes to become law.

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Not all of Newsom’s principles are so vague. Raising the legal age to buy a firearm from 18 to 21 is an easy bright line to enforce, but there isn’t any evidence that it would reduce gun crimes at all. But how can we raise the age to 21 when people may vote when three years younger than that?

Newsom’s third principle calls for a “reasonable waiting period for all gun purchases.” What is “reasonable” is not defined. We know from existing state waiting periods that they reduce gun suicides for those over 55, but they have no effect on gun homicide rates overall.

Finally, Newsom calls for “universal background checks” for gun purchases. But all commercial gun purchases are subject to universal background checks already. What Newsom is really calling for here is background checks for all private firearm transfers. Anytime anyone transfers gun ownership, from father to son, for example, or from neighbor to neighbor, Newsom wants the federal government to know about it.

Some states have tried this, and compliance is nonexistent. It is estimated that only 3.5% of private transfers in Oregon, for example, complied with that state’s universal background check law. The only way to achieve anything approaching effective compliance would be for the federal government to create a national gun registry and force all owners to register their firearms with the feds. That is the Democrats' real goal with a universal background check system: a new government database that knows who owns every gun in the country and where they live.

Newsom’s gun grabbing pitch is predicated on the suggestion that mass shootings are a rational security threat and that the public, after "another few dozen of these in the next year or two,” will accept repealing the Second Amendment.

But mass shootings make up just 1% of all gun deaths each year. If Newsom wants to do something about gun violence, he should attack the George Soros district attorneys in his state and across the country who refuse to prosecute minorities charged with gun possession crimes. Democrats need to focus on enforcing existing gun laws before they try to create new ones.

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IMO, posturing to position himself as best hope for the party should Brandon fall.

The DNC is between a rock and a hard place with Brandon and Cameltoe.

I'm getting adds now on social media about all the horrible gun violence.

Calling for the repeal of the second should result in an increase in gun violence.

you could see the day for this to happen...this is a soft and apathetic country.

Feel bad for whoever is tasked to make sure we don’t have any weapons in our homes. Bet they’d start in the cities before venturing into the countryside. Doubt an old redneck is gonna be as easy to convince as a city slicker.

He got a better chance at getting smart than passing that.

He's just saying it to get the whacko vote.

It just keeps drawing closer despite some people's reassurance we have nothing to worry about, all is well. The direction your moving is what determines where you end up but little steps seem to make some people believe we're not going anywhere.

^ yup, all is not well. Right now people refuse to even talk about how bad things really are....they want to have 'productive' conversations about the best gop politicians. Might as well talk about which sieve holds water the best.

I bet 'they' have a plan for how to take the 2nd down right now..all typed out on paper just waiting to be implemented.

No offense meant to anyone, just speaking my mind...

Newscum should do the world a favor and gargle with broken glass.

Mike

That's what happened in NYS. After Sandy Hook, Cuomo et al blew the dust off the legislation that t became the Safe Act. As completely flawed as it is, there is no way they could have formulated that law at that kind of break neck speed. It was already written and they waited for an opportunity to use it. If anyone thinks these scumbags aren't planning ahead, they are nieve

More likely result in a blood bath similar to the Civil war

You also have VP Kneepads and Hair Sniffer now calling to outlaw all Assault Weapons ( AKA Semi Auto). Next it will be Pump actions then Bolt actions and finally everything but Muskets. Then they will and already are attacking the Ammo!!! Newsome is just playing to his Demonrat people.

F Newsome and all of his kind.

they think it is necessary to come and get em for what they have planned to succeed. I plan to secede.