{"id":195802,"date":"2023-12-14T11:31:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=195802"},"modified":"2023-12-14T11:31:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:31:38","slug":"california-gov-newsom-reveals-shameful-political-calculations-in-great-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/california-gov-newsom-reveals-shameful-political-calculations-in-great-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"California Gov. 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Newsom Reveals Shameful Political Calculations in Great Debate\">debate<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;between California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis included a short back-and-forth on rising criminal violence. That, of course, gave the California gun control chief cheerleader the opening he needed to make cheap political attacks and continue to push for more restrictive firearm laws even though his state already has nearly every gun control law on the books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a glaring, but unsurprising, reminder that Gov. Newsom isn\u2019t interested in reducing criminal gun misuse or crimes. He\u2019s all about appeasing gun control activists and the donor class that will help propel him to a presidential run of his own someday, and maybe as soon as next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-yoast-seo-table-of-contents yoast-table-of-contents\"><h2>Table of contents<\/h2><ul><li><a href=\"#h-crime-exodus\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"california-gov-newsom-reveals-shameful-political-calculations-in-great-debate\" title=\"California Gov. Newsom Reveals Shameful Political Calculations in Great Debate\" data-level=\"2\">Crime Exodus<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-more-gun-control\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"california-gov-newsom-reveals-shameful-political-calculations-in-great-debate\" title=\"California Gov. Newsom Reveals Shameful Political Calculations in Great Debate\" data-level=\"2\">More Gun Control<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-support-from-florida\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"california-gov-newsom-reveals-shameful-political-calculations-in-great-debate\" title=\"California Gov. Newsom Reveals Shameful Political Calculations in Great Debate\" data-level=\"2\">Support From Florida<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-crime-exodus\">Crime Exodus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The launching point for Gov. Newsom\u2019s tirade on gun control was his attempts at attacking Gov. DeSantis over rising crime \u2013 unironically the main driver for why more law-abiding Californians have been purchasing firearms over the past few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Showing a graphic containing FBI data on violent crime rates in California, Florida and the national average, debate moderator Sean Hannity&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/11\/30\/gavin-newsom-says-california-doesnt-have-a-crime-problem-while-staring-at-data-showing-the-exact-opposite\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"california-gov-newsom-reveals-shameful-political-calculations-in-great-debate\" title=\"California Gov. Newsom Reveals Shameful Political Calculations in Great Debate\">pressed<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;Gov. Newsom about his state\u2019s high numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGovernor Newsom, your numbers are way higher than the national average. How do you explain that when safety and security, I would argue, is a prerequisite for the pursuit of happiness?\u201d&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/11\/30\/gavin-newsom-says-california-doesnt-have-a-crime-problem-while-staring-at-data-showing-the-exact-opposite\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"california-gov-newsom-reveals-shameful-political-calculations-in-great-debate\" title=\"California Gov. Newsom Reveals Shameful Political Calculations in Great Debate\">asked<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;Hannity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The governor tried to mark \u201cprogress\u201d by bringing up the 1990s. \u201cWe\u2019re near 50-year lows, down 55 percent violent crimes in the state of California from the 1990s,\u201d Gov. Newsom responded. \u201cAnd I want to compare and contrast that with the issue in Florida that you didn\u2019t mention, and that\u2019s the murder rate. Let\u2019s broaden that more broadly \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hannity interjected to remind everyone the FBI data included the murder rates. Gov. DeSantis jumped in with his own response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo this is the slick politician \u2014 you put up the rates. He has 500 per 100,000. Florida is 250. So that\u2019s almost twice as much, and he\u2019s trying to spin that to say California\u2019s doing good? People are leaving California in droves, largely because public safety has collapsed,\u201d said Gov. DeSantis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gov. Newsom&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/top-takeaways-real-winner-of-desantis-newsom-debate\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"california-gov-newsom-reveals-shameful-political-calculations-in-great-debate\" title=\"California Gov. Newsom Reveals Shameful Political Calculations in Great Debate\"><strong>could not offer<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;any good reason why 750,000 people have left his state in the past two years, while over the same stretch, more than 454,000 people have moved into Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-more-gun-control\">More Gun Control<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Always ready to chest-thump over his state\u2019s extreme gun control laws as a national framework for success, Gov. Newsom attacked Gov. DeSantis for not enacting unconstitutional gun control measures and was sloppy with the facts in doing so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou had one of the worst mass shootings in American history, Parkland\u2026 You had a young girl, Jaime Guttenberg, whose father pleaded with you to do something\u2026 You know what you did, you did the opposite \u2013 you made it easier for felons to get guns,\u201d Gov. Newsom&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/11\/30\/gavin-newsom-says-california-doesnt-have-a-crime-problem-while-staring-at-data-showing-the-exact-opposite\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"california-gov-newsom-reveals-shameful-political-calculations-in-great-debate\" title=\"California Gov. Newsom Reveals Shameful Political Calculations in Great Debate\">proclaimed<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Parkland murders were in fact committed by a deranged criminal in 2017. The governor was at that time a Member of Congress, years before he was elected governor. The Constitutional Carry bill he did&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/desantis-signature-tips-us-majority-constitutional-carry-nation-new-florida-gun-rights-law\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"california-gov-newsom-reveals-shameful-political-calculations-in-great-debate\" title=\"California Gov. Newsom Reveals Shameful Political Calculations in Great Debate\">sign into law earlier this year<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;did not make it \u201ceasier for felons to get guns,\u201d as the California governor falsely asserted. As Gov. DeSantis pointed out, it is illegal for anyone convicted of a felony to purchase or possess a firearm and that remains so in Florida today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of passing even more gun control laws that criminals will continue ignoring and that only penalize law-abiding citizens, Gov. Newsom should spend more time and effort getting tough on the criminals that do break the law. As he has failed to take any meaningful action to ensure his cities are safer, voters have been left to take action into their own hands. They did so in San Francisco after giving Geroge Soros-funded District Attorney&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/articles\/voters-fed-up-give-san-francisco-da-chesa-boudin-the-boot\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"california-gov-newsom-reveals-shameful-political-calculations-in-great-debate\" title=\"California Gov. Newsom Reveals Shameful Political Calculations in Great Debate\"><strong>Chesa Boudin<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;the boot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, Gov. DeSantis has a record of taking action against such soft-on-crime prosecutors that leave communities in danger. During the first Republican primary presidential debate this year, he reminded voters of his actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese hollowed-out cities, this is a symptom of America\u2019s decline. And one of the biggest reasons is because you have George Soros funding these radical Left-wing district attorneys that get into office and they say they\u2019re not going to prosecute crimes they disagree with,\u201d he&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/articles\/first-gop-debate-shines-light-on-why-americans-value-second-amendment-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"california-gov-newsom-reveals-shameful-political-calculations-in-great-debate\" title=\"California Gov. Newsom Reveals Shameful Political Calculations in Great Debate\">said<\/a>.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cWhen we had two of these district attorneys in Florida, elected with Soros funding who said they wouldn\u2019t do their job, I removed them from their post. They are gone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-support-from-florida\">Support From Florida<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When the California governor brought up Fred Guttenberg for his gun control advocacy, it was a political decision by Gov. Newsom to ignore any other relevant voices from that tragedy. That didn\u2019t stop Ryan Petty and Andrew Pollack from giving the governor a piece of their mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/camedwards\/2023\/11\/17\/a-fathers-love-and-the-fight-for-real-solutions-n77405\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"california-gov-newsom-reveals-shameful-political-calculations-in-great-debate\" title=\"California Gov. Newsom Reveals Shameful Political Calculations in Great Debate\"><strong>Ryan Petty\u2019s daughter Alaina<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;was also murdered in the Parkland tragedy. As was Andrew Pollack\u2019s daughter, Meadow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to the false accusations Gov. Newsom lobbed at Gov. DeSantis, Petty posted on social media in real-time. \u201cThis is a lie.&nbsp; Gavin knew it was a lie when he said it @RonDeSantis had worked closely with Parkland families to make Florida schools safer,\u201d Petty&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rpetty\/status\/1730558616837689563?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"california-gov-newsom-reveals-shameful-political-calculations-in-great-debate\" title=\"California Gov. Newsom Reveals Shameful Political Calculations in Great Debate\">posted<\/a>.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cHow dare you use the Parkland tragedy to further your political agenda. You are a political pariah. The shame is yours @GavinNewsom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pollack&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewPollackFL\/status\/1730421973497287153?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"california-gov-newsom-reveals-shameful-political-calculations-in-great-debate\" title=\"California Gov. Newsom Reveals Shameful Political Calculations in Great Debate\"><strong>did not hold back<\/strong><\/a>, either. \u201cMy daughter died in the Parkland mass shooting. Ron DeSantis was not even Governor when it happened, but I\u2019m sure as hell glad he became Governor shortly after,\u201d he said. \u201cGovernor DeSantis fired the incompetent people responsible, he didn\u2019t demonize lawful gun owners. Newsom is trash!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gov. DeSantis won reelection in 2022 in a landslide, five years after the Parkland tragedy and proclaiming that passing Constitutional Carry was a priority for his second term. Florida voters overwhelmingly made their preferred choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong><em>*** <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"california-gov-newsom-reveals-shameful-political-calculations-in-great-debate\" title=\"California Gov. 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