Gavin Newsom Blames Republicans, White House For Gilroy Attack

By Cam Edwards

AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli

What do you do if you’re the governor of California and none of your restrictive gun control laws, from gun bans to gun-free zones, actually stop a murderer with evil intentions? You blame Republicans, that’s what.

Newsom said the shooting is reflective of larger issues in American culture, decrying what he called the “morally bankrupt” Republican Party for its inaction on gun control.

“California’s doing its part,” Newsom said. “But, Jesus, these guys, the folks in the White House, have been supporting the kind of policies to roll back the work we’re doing in states like ours, to get rid of large capacity magazines, to address the issues that we’re trying to advance on background checks on ammunition.”

Let’s make one thing clear: California’s gun laws didn’t stop the attack at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, nor did they stop the mass murder in San Bernadino, or the active killer in Isla Vista, or the police officer who went on a southern California killing spree a few years ago. The work that “they’re doing in states” like California is aimed at turning the constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms into a privilege at best, and a …Read the Rest

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