However, Sir Gavin took umbrage with a recent decision by the Supreme Court, so he proclaimed that the best way to teach these pesky justices a lesson was by flogging California’s commoners, again, with his favorite cat-o-nine-tails – gun control.
To be clear, Newsom is outraged that the justices let stand a Texas law, which allows private citizens to enforce an abortion ban, so he threatened to punish his own people with a law empowering Californians to enforce a ban on homebuilt firearms, parts kits, and “assault weapons.”
“If states can now shield their laws from review by the federal courts that compare assault weapons to Swiss Army knives, then California will use that authority to protect people’s lives, where Texas used it to put women in harm’s way,” Newsom proclaimed in a hasty press release Saturday. “If the most efficient way to keep these devastating weapons off our streets is to add the threat of private lawsuits, we should do just that.”
In other words, the Governor of California thinks more gun control may force the justices to reconsider their opinion of a Texas law.