SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom angrily denounced Republicans for refusing to undertake gun security measures as he renewed requires federal motion after two mass shootings in California left 19 individuals useless.
Newsom additionally referred to as out fellow Californian, Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy, for not making a public assertion after the shootings in Monterey Park and in Half Moon Bay.
“The place’s he been on gun security reform? The place’s the Republican Social gathering been on gun security reform?” the governor stated, showing visibly shaken after assembly with households of victims of the second taking pictures. “Disgrace on them. Disgrace on those who enable and perpetuate that to be rewarded politically.”
California has a few of the most stringent gun insurance policies within the nation, which the governor says helps clarify why the state has a gun dying price 37 % beneath the nationwide common. A few of these restrictions, nonetheless, are in jeopardy following a Supreme Court docket choice in June on a hid carry legislation in New York that invited challenges on a variety of firearm legal guidelines.
Even with California’s legal guidelines, individuals can simply convey weapons into the state from elsewhere — which is why Congress ought to take actions equivalent to proscribing the scale of magazines and banning assault weapons, Newsom stated.
“We are able to’t do that alone,” Newsom stated. “And with all due respect, we really feel like we're.”
The governor made the journey to Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco, after the killing of seven farmworkers Monday, apparently by one other employee. It got here lower than 48 hours after the assault by a gunman at a dance corridor throughout a Lunar New 12 months celebration in Monterey Park, a small metropolis east of downtown Los Angeles.
Newsom had harsh phrases for McCarthy, who represents the Bakersfield space, for not making any public statements addressing both taking pictures.
“I’m nonetheless ready for Kevin McCarthy, the chief of the Home of Representatives, who purports to symbolize the individuals of the state of California,” he stated. “We haven’t heard one rattling phrase from him, not since Monterey Park, not what occurred right here, not one expression of prayers, condolences, nothing, and it ought to shock no person.”
The Speaker addressed the shootings at a , across the identical time Newsom was talking in Half Moon Bay.
“Let me start by expressing my condolences to the households in California with the latest violence during the last couple days,” McCarthy instructed reporters.
Newsom stated he was within the hospital in Southern California visiting victims and relations when he was pulled apart and knowledgeable of the second taking pictures in Half Moon Bay.
The governor, like others in his occasion, has doubled down on the necessity for gun restrictions within the wake of the Supreme Court docket’s choice. Final yr the Democrat-dominated legislature handed a dozen extra restrictions, and new payments are within the works for this yr.
Whereas the state does have a decrease price of gun dying than the nationwide common, it’s been inconceivable to insulate it from tragedies like those seen this week. More and more, California Democrats have been seeking to Washington to position protections in areas that state insurance policies merely can’t cowl.
“We are able to determine this out — we are able to,” Newsom stated. “We all know what to do. It’s not sophisticated. We do. And we don’t have to do that many times and once more.”