Newsom’s Gun Record Negates Any Claims He Makes About Defending Civil Liberties

The Bill of Rights was never intended to enumerate all of the rights the people had. It merely sought to protect some particularly key ones. Pretty much all of them have their roots in the years prior to the American Revolution, 250 years ago, and our Founding Fathers wanted to make sure nothing like that happened again.

These civil liberties are vital to a free society, but they’re not all of our civil liberties.

I don’t think anyone has an issue with that.

What bothers me, though, is when someone like California Gov. Gavin Newsom prattles on about civil liberties, all while routinely trampling on them. Some in his state have called him out on this.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and his fellow Democrats in the Legislature incessantly denounce President Donald Trump for trampling on civil rights in his lust for power.

Their current drive to sanction a gerrymander of California’s 52 congressional districts to add five Democratic seats is couched in assertions that it would help blunt Trump’s authoritarian tendencies. One pro-Proposition 50 ad describes Trump’s campaign for pro-Republican gerrymanders as a “blitzkrieg,” using language associated with Hitler and World War II Germany.

However, as Newsom, et al, posture as saviors of democracy, they haven’t hesitated to infringe on constitutional rights themselves.

For instance, California’s restrictive laws governing gun ownership have drawn adverse decisions from federal judges in recent months who have applied U.S. Supreme Court interpretations of the constitutional right to bear arms. In the past, Newsom denounced judges who ruled against them as toadies of the firearms industry.

California’s willingness to abridge constitutional rights extends beyond guns, however. Newsom and legislators also will challenge constitutionally protected free speech if it comes from those on the other side of the political divide.

Now, I won’t get into the free speech thing here, but it’s basically trying to ban the use of AI to make images and videos that mock people. That’s an abridgement of the First Amendment, and he needs to pound sand, but we need to focus on the gun aspect.

After all, that alone makes any claim of defending America against tyranny nothing but outright hypocrisy.

Yeah, I know, if Newsom is talking, he’s probably being hypocritical. As Californians were locked down, unable to go to work, church, or just socialize with friends, he was attending a dinner at French Laundry that cost more than my house, most likely. Hypocrisy is normal for him.

The issue here, though, is that Newsom is a vocal opponent of the most efficient means to defend against tyranny, even as he claims he’s somehow defending us against tyranny.

He blasts President Trump as a tyrant, an authoritarian, even as Trump seeks to expand gun rights via various mechanisms, including through the courts, which would do more to put guns in the hands of Americans who may not support him. If that’s authoritarianism, it’s the worst thought-out type of authoritarianism ever devised.

But Newsom, who seeks to essentially disenfranchise many Californians because other states are starting to play some of the same gerrymandering games, thinks that disarming people isn’t authoritarian, despite literally no dictatorship has widespread civilian gun ownership anywhere in the world.

He has no ground to stand on. He can claim to defend democracy and civil liberties, but that’s like saying pedophiles defend child safety. You can say it, but it doesn’t make it true.

Newsom needs to sit down and shut up. He’s embarrassing himself with this nonsense, and it’s not going to result in him winning the White House.

It might earn him even more well-deserved mockery, though.

Editor’s Note: The radical left, which includes Gavin Newsom, will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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