California is the blueprint for what Democrats want to do to the rest of the country.
But the data can’t hide what a nightmare the Golden State has become after Democrat misrule.
And Gavin Newsom was speechless when the FBI dropped this brutal fact about California.
California leads the nation in active shooter incidents despite strict gun control laws
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has virtually every major gun control law that a state can pass on the books. The Golden State has a red flag gun confiscation law, universal background checks, a so-called assault weapons ban, a ban on high capacity magazines, a 10-day waiting period for all gun purchases, and – in many counties – some of the most onerous “may issue” restrictions on citizens’ abilities to obtain concealed carry permits anywhere. Anything on the gun grabbers’ wish list, California has it. Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety praised the Golden State for having the toughest gun control laws in the country.
The Supreme Court’s landmark New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen caused Newsom to double down on his gun control agenda. Last year, he signed six more gun control laws, including more restrictions on locations where gun owners can carry, microstamping all handguns sold in the state, and a tax on ammunition.
“While radical judges continue to strip away our ability to keep people safe, California will keep fighting — because gun safety laws work. The data proves they save lives: California’s gun death rate is 43% lower than the rest of the nation. These new laws will make our communities and families safer,” Newsom boasted.
The FBI released its 2023 Active Shooter Incidents in the United States report. The report found that there were 48 active shooter incidents last year in 26 states. California was top in the country with 8 active shooter incidents, followed by Texas and Washington, which each had four. The federal government defines an active shooter as “one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area.”
Gavin Newsom attacks other states for their gun control
Newsom has every gun control law that could be passed at the state level and California still had more active shooter incidents than Texas and Florida combined. Those states had six incidents with a greater combined population than California. And both states have Constitutional Carry laws that allow gun owners to carry a concealed weapon without a government permission slip.
The California Governor is positioning himself for a future Presidential run by trying to raise his national profile over the last two years. He’s taken to social media to try and jab at red states about their lack of gun control.
“Why is Florida’s murder rate 65% higher than New York’s murder rate? Bad luck? The humidity? Or maybe deciding to make it easy for criminals to get guns is more ‘pro-criminal’ than making it hard for criminals to get guns,” anti-gun U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) wrote on social media attacking Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
“It HAS to be the humidity. Why else would California’s gun violence rate be 57% lower than Florida’s?” Newsom replied.
Florida has its lowest rate of crime in 50 years under DeSantis. Many major cities – almost all of them under control of gun-grabbing Democrats – stopped reporting crime data to the FBI in 2022 to hide the spike in violent crime after 2020. California’s relentless pursuit of disarming citizens has helped criminals rampage through San Francisco and Los Angeles. No matter what phony statistics Newsom cites about gun violence, the safest states in the United States are almost always in Northern New England. New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine all have Constitutional Carry laws on the books. Of course, gun grabbing politicians and media elites don’t want to admit that as it might lead anyone with a lick of common sense to conclude what freedom-loving Americans already understand, that armed citizens lead to less crime.
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