Angry Newsom criticizes Texas governor, U.S. judges on guns
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday harshly criticized Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in the wake of an elementary school shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead and assailed two federal judges as “extremists" for their rulings undermining California's gun control efforts.
“That completely belies the fact that there’s only one nation on planet Earth that separates itself from all other nations and that’s the United States of America in the perversion of the Second Amendment” guaranteeing the right to keep and bear arms, Newsom said. Newsom held out actions in the nation’s most populous state as “an antidote of sorts” to people nationwide who may be feeling “anxiety, stress and fear” over recent gun violence, including the slayings in Texas and at a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y. earlier this month.
Newsom, as he has in the past, also criticized “extremist” federal judges who have ruled against some of California’s gun laws — Judge Roger Benitez compared assault weapons to Swiss Army knives and Judge Ryan Nelson earlier this month wrote the majority opinion blocking the state’s ban on the sale of semiautomatic weapons to adults under 21.
The Firearms Policy Coalition, a pro gun rights group, issued a statement criticizing “anti-rights politicians” who it said are offering “false hope” while having “disgustingly commandeered these tragedies in a rush to enact their agenda of disarmament and authoritarianism.” The group did not name any politicians.
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