Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders announce emergency actions to curb gun violence at a press convention in Sacramento on May 25, 2022.
Buffalo. Boulder. Aurora. Las Vegas. Orlando. San Bernardino. Sutherland Springs. Poway. Parkland. Sandy Hook.
At a press convention on Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom rattled off an inventory of cities which have turn into tragic metonyms of our nation’s epidemic of gun violence. “That’s just a short list,” Newsom mentioned. On Tuesday, when a gunman stormed a southwest Texas elementary faculty and killed 19 youngsters and two academics, one other place joined that macabre roster: Uvalde, Texas.
The press convention on the state Capitol was the primary joint look in at the least a 12 months by the governor and the Legislature’s prime Democrats, Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins of San Diego and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon of Lakewood. The said goal, in accordance to Newson, was “not to add to the rhetoric but to advance our resolve.”
But provided that the state Legislature is already contemplating a raft of recent gun proposals, Congress is beset by gridlock and the federal judiciary seems primed to slap down a few of California’s present gun legal guidelines, there wasn’t a lot to advance.
The news, such that it was: Newsom, Atkins and Rendon vowed to “expedite” the gun management payments at the moment shifting via the Legislature. That features a proposal making it simpler to maintain gun makers and distributors legally chargeable for damage and dying dedicated with their merchandise, a ban on the promoting of sure firearms to youngsters, and a little bit of Texas-inspired laws to give Californians the power to sue anybody who manufactures, distributes or sells designated “assault weapons” or ghost weapons.