“Evidently, Newsom’s disdain for an armed defense doesn’t extend to very special people like himself.”
They’re all hypocrites.
After a series of mass public shootings rocked California last month despite its incredibly strict gun control laws, Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, blamed the Second Amendment, lamenting to a reporter that the right to keep and bear arms “is becoming a suicide pact.”
Newsom’s anti-gun rhetoric came, ironically, during an interview in which he was obviously protected by several well-armed members of the California Highway Patrol’s Dignitary Protection Section.
These police officers are exempt from most of the state’s crushing gun control laws, including while off duty. Unlike other Californians, the officers can possess standard-capacity magazines, buy handguns that aren’t on the state’s “approved” list, and own semiautomatic rifles deemed “illegal assault weapons” too dangerous to be entrusted to other civilians.
By Amy Swearer