For someone who has said that he has zero interest in running at the Federal level, he sounds like someone who is planning otherwise.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...a41bc0334111a1&ei=33

Gavin Newsom wants 28th Amendment for guns in U.S. Constitution

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom is seeking an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would restrict gun ownership — a daunting and likely quixotic response to the deadliest wave of mass shootings in U.S. history that would nonetheless position California as the most aggressive state in the union on gun control.

Newsom outlined his plan Thursday to pursue the amendment, seeded with cash left over from his landslide 2022 reelection, fueled by frustration over the country’s failure to adopt restrictions that polls show most Americans broadly support and a conservative Supreme Court that has rolled back gun laws.

“This is a mechanism to address that despair,” Newsom said in an interview with POLITICO ahead of his announcement, which came from his Campaign for Democracy PAC. “We’re sick of being on the defense and throwing up our hands. We want to go on the offense and be for something and build a movement that’s bottom up, not top down.”

The Democratic governor’s proposal would raise the federal minimum age to buy a firearm to 21 from 18; mandate universal background checks; institute a “reasonable” waiting period for all gun purchases and ban assault rifles nationally.

Newsom acknowledged the seemingly unimaginable hurdles to creating a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But his plan is distinctly Newsom: designed to draw maximum public attention on an issue where he sees Americans’ views as being far ahead of their governments’. In the interview, Newsom said his motivation to act on guns was inspired by a rollback of gun control measures in courts amid the unending series of mass killings. Specifically, he said, it’s meant to address “the echo chamber of despair out there today.”

The U.S. is on pace to hit a record number of mass killings in 2023, reaching an average of one a week, according to a recent analysis by The Associated Press and USA Today.

The effort positions California at the forefront of the fight for increased gun restrictions. Newsom and the state Legislature in Sacramento are set to kickoff a nationwide process that would require support from 34 states to trigger a convention. California state Sen. Aisha Wahab, (D-Hayward), and Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles) are expected to carry the bill, backed by a host of outside gun-safety groups.

“This initiative will literally be a catalyst for other states to follow,” said Wahab, chair of the state Senate’s public safety committee and herself a victim of gun violence.

Wahab’s father was murdered and her mother died at an early age, landing her in the foster care system. She said she wants to center victims in the debate, and offered that this will start again in California.

“When we're talking about gun violence across this nation, people regardless of whether or not they're a Republican or Democrat or independent, they are being gunned down. Their children are being gunned down,” she said. “We've had enough.”

Getting 33 other states on board would be almost impossibly difficult. Democrats now control 20 state legislatures across the country. But Newsom, who seeded his political committee with $10 million and has spent time on the national stage trolling Republican Govs. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas, has for years crusaded against the gun industry and reaped the political benefits in a state where voters broadly support strong curbs on firearms.

Newsom laid the groundwork for his gubernatorial run by championing a 2016 ballot initiative regulating ammunition sales. As governor, he has signed bills restricting ghost guns, barring companies from marketing firearms to minors and preventing people under 21 from purchasing certain weapons.

He has also used the topics to wade into volatile national issues. When the Supreme Court upheld a Texas law letting people sue abortion providers, Newsom pushed California’s Legislature to pass a law letting residents sue illegal gun distributors. That sparked the legal reckoning Newsom was hoping for: When a federal judge halted California’s law last year, Newsom thanked him for also endangering the Texas statute.

Yet larger legal headwinds could upend California’s progress and limit what the state can enact. The Supreme Court’s expansive interpretation of the Second Amendment has overridden California’s concealed carry rules and reinvigorated challenges to Newsom’s ammunition ballot initiative, a ban on high-capacity magazines, California’s prohibition on assault weapons and other laws.

Newsom said even if Congress voted to enact some of the restrictions he’s pushing, which itself is inconceivable based on recent history, the courts are acting as another seemingly impenetrable barrier for new reforms. “They're literally throwing out all of the progress many of us have made in these blue states,” he said.

The roadmap for his latest proposal was the 17th Amendment, Newsom said, which in 1913 created popular elections of U.S. senators rather than having them picked by legislators, tipping the balance of power between states and the federal government.

He was circumspect about its prospects but predicted that a continued wave of mass carnage could someday tip the scales for those seeking meaningful action. “If we reach the threshold of these mass shootings, and we have another few dozen of these in the next year or two, I think people are at a breaking point in this country, and you may see this accelerate in a pretty profound and pronounced way.”

Short of proposing something transformational, Newsom conceded that “I don't know what the hell else to do. I don't know what else is the answer.”

“I don't want to be maudlin or predictably patronizing and almost too political. But I got four damn kids, dude, I can't take it anymore,” Newsom added. “I mean, when they go to the mall now, when they go to a movie theater, when they go to a birthday party — let alone going to school. And I have to have conversations with them about this. This is insane. It's absolute insanity. And the biggest and most insane thing we can do is the same old BS and just point fingers. So, let’s give this a shot.”
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Here is a link to another article:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...768a76942a1fc5&ei=13

Just more playing to his audience.

It's long overdue for Californicate to become it's own country.

I don't see the proposed amendment language anywhere in the entire article about the amendment.

But this summary from the Governor Gavin Newsom's website:

“Our ability to make a more perfect union is literally written into the Constitution,” said Governor Gavin Newsom. “So today, I’m proposing the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution to do just that. The 28th Amendment will enshrine in the Constitution common sense gun safety measures that Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and gun owners overwhelmingly support – while leaving the 2nd Amendment unchanged and respecting America’s gun-owning tradition.”

The 28th Amendment will permanently enshrine four broadly supported gun safety principles into the U.S. Constitution:

• Raising the federal minimum age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21;
  
• Mandating universal background checks to prevent truly dangerous people from purchasing a gun that could be used in a crime;
  
• Instituting a reasonable waiting period for all gun purchases; and
  
• Barring civilian purchase of assault weapons that serve no other purpose than to kill as many people as possible in a short amount of time – weapons of war our nation’s founders never foresaw.
  

Additionally, the 28th Amendment will affirm Congress, states, and local governments can enact additional common-sense gun safety regulations that save lives.

Passage of the 28th Amendment will require a convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution, also known as an Article V Convention or amendatory convention. Working in partnership with members of the California State Senate and Assembly, California will be the first state in the nation to call for such a convention...

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/06...2028th,End%20America's%20Gun%20Violence%20Crisis&text=SACRAMENTO%20%E2%80%93%20Today%20Governor%20Gavin%20Newsom,gun%20safety%20measures%20into%20law.

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Just more playing to his audience.

Ole Gavy is just laying the groundwork for his presidential bid once Pres Biden falls down one too many times and cracks his coconut.

Gavy has said and proposed many senseless items (reparations anyone?) knowing full well that they'll never see the light of day but appeasing his base. Of late, he's even said silly things like "protecting our border..." to sound more middle ground.

He's a tool of the highest level. I hope he runs so the rest of the country can be exposed to this numbnut and then vote against him.

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Originally posted by Russ59:

He's a tool of the highest level. I hope he runs so the rest of the country can be exposed to this numbnut and then vote against him.

I said something similar about Biden back in maybe 2006, or 2002, when he was running for the dem nomination. He speaks without thinking first, and says overtly racist and sexist things. He was a walking gaff machine his entire career.

But as we've seen, the left will vote for anything with a D because they hate conservatives so deeply.

We should hope for the most milque toast Dem candidate, one that is not proposing sweeping gun control in an amendment to the COTUS.

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We should hope for the most milque toast Dem candidate, one that is not proposing sweeping gun control in an amendment to the COTUS.

Yeah... Newsom is not as big an idiot as he seems. This "28th Amendment" to the Constitution has NO CHANCE of being ratified by the States; however, he is going to fire up the left-wing base with this BS.

He's positioning himself to be the Dem candidate. I really don't think it will be Biden.

Newsome out-Betoed Beto....

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Newsome out-Betoed Beto....

Newsome-Beto 2024!

28th Amendment: ... of the government, by the government, for the government shall not be infringed.

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Originally posted by 12131:

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Newsome out-Betoed Beto....

Newsome-Beto 2024!

Now I'm triggered....

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“Our ability to make a more perfect union is literally written into the Constitution,” said Governor Gavin Newsom. “So today, I’m proposing the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution to do just that. The 28th Amendment will enshrine in the Constitution common sense gun safety measures that Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and gun owners overwhelmingly support – while leaving the 2nd Amendment unchanged and respecting America’s gun-owning tradition.”

The 28th Amendment will permanently enshrine four broadly supported gun safety principles into the U.S. Constitution:

• Raising the federal minimum age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21;
  
• Mandating universal background checks to prevent truly dangerous people from purchasing a gun that could be used in a crime;
  
• Instituting a reasonable waiting period for all gun purchases; and
  
• Barring civilian purchase of assault weapons that serve no other purpose than to kill as many people as possible in a short amount of time – weapons of war our nation’s founders never foresaw.
  

Wonder who these gun owners are who overwhelmingly support what garbage he's trying to sell because no gun owners I know have been asking for the things listed.

Our founders new exactly what they were doing when the 2nd amendment was written which makes his 4th point invalid. Weapons of war back then; muskets, we as citizens today don't even come close to owning the weapons being used to fight todays wars.

Homey is going to need 38 states (three fourths) to ratify and I don't see that happening.

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Originally posted by xd45man:
Homey is going to need 38 states (three fourths) to ratify and I don't see that happening.

Yeah, an Amendment needs 2/3 of both houses of Congress to be passed, and then ratified by 3/4 of the state legislatures. Those are both difficult hurdles for passage.

flashguy

Ironically, it's probable that the chase for more restrictive gun control will lead another civil war and to the most gun deaths in our history.

These idiots just don't get it. It's the people's tool to protect themselves from governments composed of corrupt, immoral, unethical tyrants such as the current admin. It has many other utilities but a critical primary one is to keep the government in check.

What’s the next level below “box of rocks” on the stupid scale?

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The U.S. is on pace to hit a record number of mass killings in 2023, reaching an average of one a week, according to a recent analysis by The Associated Press and USA Today.

If they would just change the definition AGAIN to what constitutes a mass shooting the'd have it nailed. Just a suggestion, count anyone that got shot that didn't want to get shot in the same month (or quarter or year) as any body else a mass shooting.

And if you think I'm trivializing the issue, they started it.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Now I'm triggered....

How So, Single Stage, Two-Stage, Binary?

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These idiots just don't get it. It's the people's tool to protect themselves from governments composed of corrupt, immoral, unethical tyrants such as the current admin.

Oh, I think they get it....
That's why they want to take it away.