Newsom DeSantis Great Debate

Estimated studying time: 5 minutes

By Larry Keane

The Nice Crimson State vs. Blue State debate between California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis included a brief back-and-forth on rising prison violence. That, after all, gave the California gun management chief cheerleader the opening he wanted to make low-cost political assaults and proceed to push for extra restrictive firearm legal guidelines though his state already has practically each gun management regulation on the books.

It was a evident, however unsurprising, reminder that Gov. Newsom isn’t serious about decreasing prison gun misuse or crimes. He’s all about appeasing gun management activists and the donor class that can assist propel him to a presidential run of his personal sometime, and possibly as quickly as subsequent yr.

Crime Exodus

The launching level for Gov. Newsom’s tirade on gun management was his makes an attempt at attacking Gov. DeSantis over rising crime – unironically the principle driver for why extra law-abiding Californians have been buying firearms over the previous few years.

Exhibiting a graphic containing FBI information on violent crime charges in California, Florida and the nationwide common, debate moderator Sean Hannity pressed Gov. Newsom about his state’s excessive numbers.

“Governor Newsom, your numbers are approach increased than the nationwide common. How do you clarify that when security and safety, I’d argue, is a prerequisite for the pursuit of happiness?” requested Hannity.

The governor tried to mark “progress” by citing the Nineteen Nineties. “We’re close to 50-year lows, down 55 p.c violent crimes within the state of California from the Nineteen Nineties,” Gov. Newsom responded. “And I need to evaluate and distinction that with the difficulty in Florida that you simply didn’t point out, and that’s the homicide price. Let’s broaden that extra broadly —”

Hannity interjected to remind everybody the FBI information included the homicide charges. Gov. DeSantis jumped in together with his personal response.

“So that is the slick politician — you set up the charges. He has 500 per 100,000. Florida is 250. In order that’s virtually twice as a lot, and he’s making an attempt to spin that to say California’s doing good? Individuals are leaving California in droves, largely as a result of public security has collapsed,” stated Gov. DeSantis.

Gov. Newsom couldn’t supply any good cause why 750,000 folks have left his state previously two years, whereas over the identical stretch, greater than 454,000 folks have moved into Florida.

Extra Gun Management

At all times able to chest-thump over his state’s excessive gun management legal guidelines as a nationwide framework for fulfillment, Gov. Newsom attacked Gov. DeSantis for not enacting unconstitutional gun management measures and was sloppy with the details in doing so.

“You had one of many worst mass shootings in American historical past, Parkland… You had a younger woman, Jaime Guttenberg, whose father pleaded with you to do one thing… You realize what you probably did, you probably did the alternative – you made it simpler for felons to get weapons,” Gov. Newsom proclaimed.

The Parkland murders have been in reality dedicated by a deranged prison in 2017. The governor was at the moment a Member of Congress, years earlier than he was elected governor. The Constitutional Carry invoice he did signal into regulation earlier this yr didn’t make it “simpler for felons to get weapons,” because the California governor falsely asserted. As Gov. DeSantis identified, it’s unlawful for anybody convicted of a felony to buy or possess a firearm and that is still so in Florida right now.

As an alternative of passing much more gun management legal guidelines that criminals will proceed ignoring and that solely penalize law-abiding residents, Gov. Newsom ought to spend extra effort and time getting powerful on the criminals that do break the regulation. As he has did not take any significant motion to make sure his cities are safer, voters have been left to take motion into their very own fingers. They did so in San Francisco after giving Geroge Soros-funded District Legal professional Chesa Boudin the boot.

In distinction, Gov. DeSantis has a document of taking motion towards such soft-on-crime prosecutors that go away communities in peril. Throughout the first Republican main presidential debate this yr, he reminded voters of his actions.

“These hollowed-out cities, it is a symptom of America’s decline. And one of many greatest causes is as a result of you could have George Soros funding these radical Left-wing district attorneys that get into workplace and so they say they’re not going to prosecute crimes they disagree with,” he stated. “After we had two of those district attorneys in Florida, elected with Soros funding who stated they wouldn’t do their job, I eliminated them from their submit. They’re gone.”

Help From Florida

When the California governor introduced up Fred Guttenberg for his gun management advocacy, it was a political choice by Gov. Newsom to disregard some other related voices from that tragedy. That didn’t cease Ryan Petty and Andrew Pollack from giving the governor a bit of their thoughts.

Ryan Petty’s daughter Alaina was additionally murdered within the Parkland tragedy. As was Andrew Pollack’s daughter, Meadow.

In response to the false accusations Gov. Newsom lobbed at Gov. DeSantis, Petty posted on social media in real-time. “It is a lie.  Gavin knew it was a lie when he stated it @RonDeSantis had labored carefully with Parkland households to make Florida faculties safer,” Petty posted. “How dare you employ the Parkland tragedy to additional your political agenda. You’re a political pariah. The disgrace is yours @GavinNewsom.”

Pollack didn’t maintain again, both. “My daughter died within the Parkland mass taking pictures. Ron DeSantis was not even Governor when it occurred, however I’m certain as hell glad he grew to become Governor shortly after,” he stated. “Governor DeSantis fired the incompetent folks accountable, he didn’t demonize lawful gun homeowners. Newsom is trash!”

Gov. DeSantis received reelection in 2022 in a landslide, 5 years after the Parkland tragedy and proclaiming that passing Constitutional Carry was a precedence for his second time period. Florida voters overwhelmingly made their most popular selection.

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