U.S.A. — “Today Governor Gavin Newsom proposed a 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution to enshrine fundamental, broadly supported gun safety measures into law,” a press release from his office announced Thursday. “While leaving the 2nd Amendment unchanged and respecting America’s gun-owning tradition, the Governor’s proposal guarantees common sense constitutional protections and gun safety measures that Democrats, Republicans, independent voters, and gun owners overwhelmingly support – including universal background checks, raising the firearm purchase age to 21, instituting a firearm purchase waiting period, and barring the civilian purchase of assault weapons.”
Leave it to this gaslighting gubernatorial gasbag to lie right out of the starting gate and assert that registration/confiscation-enabling prior restraints, denial of rights to citizens recognized by U.S. Code as members of the “unorganized militia,” imposed delays on exercising of rights, and prohibition of in common use firearms suitable for the common defense, all comply with “shall not be infringed.”
This whole 28th Amendment nonsense got its start with propagandist Michael Moore, who almost a year ago wrote (Why NRA managers didn’t follow Association Bylaws and expel this clear violator when I first petitioned them over 20 years ago is something only they can answer.):
“The inalienable right of a free people to be kept safe from gun violence and the fear thereof must not be infringed and shall be protected by the Congress and the States. This Amendment thus repeals and replaces the Second Amendment.”