Newsom’s 28th Amendment
In George Orwell’s magnum opus, 1984, The Party said:
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
These phrases were so transparently wrong that anyone would believe them was the point. They demonstrated the level of brainwashing the citizens of Oceania had been subject to.
It’s in that spirit of dishonesty that Gavin Newsom launched his initiative to ratify the 28th Amendment.
NEW: I’m proposing the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution to help end our nation’s gun violence crisis.
The American people are sick of Congress’ inaction.
The 28th will enshrine 4 widely supported gun safety freedoms — while leaving the 2nd Amendment intact:
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— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) June 8, 2023
Here is the text in full:
NEW: I’m proposing the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution to help end our nation’s gun violence crisis.
The American people are sick of Congress’ inaction.
The 28th will enshrine 4 widely supported gun safety freedoms — while leaving the 2nd Amendment intact:
1) Raising the minimum age to purchase a gun to 21
2) Universal background checks
3) A reasonable waiting period for gun purchases
4) Banning the civilian purchase of assault weapons
Gun safety freedoms that restrict gun rights. Thats orwellian.
This would be the second time the Constitution was used to restrict the rights of the people and expand the power pf the government over them. The last was the 18th Amendment, which imposed prohibition.
That was an utter disaster that created America’s greatest crime wave and set in motion a long history of gun control.
Had it not been for the Roaring 20s, brought on by prohibition, the NFA might never had been passed.
Newsom want to impose prohibition on “assault weapons,” a nebulous and meaninglessness term. Just image the crime wave that will cause.
And, of course, he makes the ludicrous claim that these restrictions don’t impose on the Second Amendment. Clearly his interpretation of the Second Amendment is not one of personal gun rights.
The good news is more than half the states in America are now Constitutional carry and it takes 2/3-rds of states to ratify a Constitutional Amendment. The likelihood a Constitutional carry state will pass this is virtually zero.
He must know this has no chance of passing.
This is just the ultimate display of anti-guj virtue signaling.
Fuck him.