Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) pointed to Missouri gun laws and blasted the state’s annual gun deaths but failed to mention that California has more than twice as many gun deaths each year.
Newsom posted to X:
Missouri has one of the highest gun death rates in the nation.
It also has:
No universal background checks.
No license / training requirements.
No large capacity magazine ban.
Last year, the GOP even voted against banning kids from openly carrying a gun without adult…
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) February 15, 2024
On November 16, 2023, this author wrote a piece highlighting the left’s tendency to point to firearm-related homicide deaths instead of actual homicide numbers. This allows someone like Newsom to avoid mentioning Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers showing California had 3,576 firearm deaths in 2021 while Missouri only had 1,414.
Moreover, by focusing on “gun death rates” instead of real numbers, Newsom can omit the fact that the FBI noted that California led the nation in “active shooter incidents” in 2021.
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