The source for this post comes from the current issue of “America’s 1st Freedom” magazine |February 2018. (blue lettering)
Headlines:
California’s ANTI-NRA Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom admits that he is coming for your guns.
Gavin Newsom threatens to take your guns as he runs for the governor’s office and beyond.
For a man who has his eyes on the u.s. presidency, California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is perfectly willing to smear millions of law-abiding Americans for wishing to defend their Second Amendment-protected right to keep and bear arms.
And he’s even willing, unlike many in the gun-ban movement, to admit that he wants to confiscate guns from those law-abiding Americans.
In mid-December, on the five-year anniversary of the mass murder of students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary, Newsom tweeted:
“It’s been 5 years since 20 first graders were shot dead at Sandy Hook.
Since then:
14 killed in San Bernardino
49 killed in Orlando
58 killed in Vegas
26 killed in a Texas church
Enough.
We have a message for the @NRA: “If you hurt people, we ARE coming for your guns.”
First, the gun control push after the Sandy Hook attack was comprised mainly of legislation that would have required background checks for all gun sales, not just sales by licensed dealers. Interestingly, in every one of the shootings Newsom focused on in his hateful, anti-NRA tweet, the murderer had passed an FBI background check to purchase his firearm(s).
Newsom’s deceit on background checks aside, his personal attack on NRA members is even more shameful. The vast majority of NRA members have never hurt anyone with their guns, yet Newsom’s tweet would have you think just the opposite. And, as he admitted, “We ARE coming for your guns.”
As Democrats dance toward the 2020 presidential elections, it’ll be interesting to see if anyone can go further toward the anti-gun side than Newsom, who seeks to push the numerous restrictive gun laws that have so badly hurt the Second Amendment in California on the rest of the nation’s gun owners.
Could it be that the problem with California gun laws begins with the gun owners in California? Looking at the web-site https://www.thoughtco.com/gun-owners-percentage-of-state-populations-3325153 we find that as of April 28, 2017 the percentage of gun owners in California was estimated to be 21.3% of the total population. Doing a GOOGLE search I find posted at this web-site http://worldpopulationreview.com/states/california-population/ the current estimate for California’s population in 2018 is 39.78 million. Simple math would indicate that we have an estimated gun ownership population of 8,472,465 in California. That’s a lot of gun owners. Taking this a bit further, I find at the web-site http://www.sos.ca.gov/administration/news-releases-and-advisories/2012-news-releases-and-advisories/db12-113/ that there is an estimated 18.2 million registered voters in California. Of these, 13.2 million voted in the presidential election. So what is my point? My point is this, having 8.4 million gun owners in California, (assuming the estimate does not include minors under the voting age) gun owners in our state account for 63.6 % of the total number of people that voted in California in the last presidential election.
With a number this large, am I the only one that finds it is amazing that we have the gun laws in California that we do. I can only assume that we have a majority of gun owners in California that are either not registered to vote or simply don’t bother to vote. Therefore, when we look at the gun laws in California, and blame our government officials for the never-ceasing erosion of our Second Amendment rights, we actually should be looking at the silent gun owners themselves. It is my belief that it’s the lack of interest, or complacency of these silent gun owners in California that help our government officials in placing California on the map to becoming the first state in America to have TOTAL gun confiscation.