The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says California Gov. Gavin Newsom is a hypocrite for signing a law barring local governments from requiring voter identification, while still expecting gun buyers to provide ID before exercising their Second Amendment rights.
Democrat Newsom is a career anti-gunner who has supported every gun control measure to come along in Sacramento. He has proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution which would gut the Second Amendment. His end game is to make gun laws as personally invasive as possible simply to deter Californians from exercising their right to keep and bear arms.
On the other hand, the bill he signed bars local governments from enacting local ordinances requiring residents to provide valid identification in order to vote in municipal elections. The new state law was aimed at Huntington Beach, but affects all other California cities.
“Gavin Newsom’s hypocrisy evidently knows no limits,” said CCRKBA Managing Director Andrew Gottlieb. “Demanding background checks and positive identification to buy a gun, but not requiring ID to vote essentially treats the Second Amendment as a second-class right, and the U.S. Supreme Court has already made it clear that sort of double standard is off the table.
“The notion that requiring voter ID somehow places obstacles in the path of certain groups is ludicrous,” he observed, “because Newsom hasn’t protested about obstacles placed in the way of gun buyers, regardless their age, race or economic status. Indeed, he’s all for making it as tough as possible for law-abiding Golden State residents, no matter who they are, to legally purchase or own firearms.
“If identification is required to exercise one fundamental right,” Gottlieb said, “it should be required for all rights, and vice versa. There should be no double standards, which is now the case in California. Andi-gunners like Newsom invariably say things are different when it comes to guns, but we’re not talking about guns, we’re talking about rights.”
Politics is only confusing or confounding if you try to ascribe noble intentions to the policies which politicians promote.
On the other hand, politics makes perfect sense if you realize that politicians have zero regard for the populace and will do whatever they think will increase their power, wealth, and control.
California’s Governor is no exception.
““If identification is required to exercise one fundamental right,” Gottlieb said, “it should be required for all rights, and vice versa. There should be no double standards, which is now the case in California….”
Start loading the lawsuit pipeline with legal challenges, we won’t have this kind of majority in our favor on the SCotUS forever, folks.
Start donating to the 2A rights orgs. currently doing the heavy lifting these days, like the SAF…