Maybe Gov. Gavin Newsom missed it, but he has plenty of issues in his own state of California to worry about without complaining and whining about Trump’s speech at the NRA Leadership Forum today. Gavin was so fussy in fact he wrote an entire thread on it …
Trump is choosing to spend his time pandering to the @NRA while lives are being lost every day to senseless gun violence. Let’s spend our time talking about the facts on gun violence in America:
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) April 26, 2019
Psst. Gavin, look in your own backyard.
Gun violence kills nearly 100 Americans every day. Nearly 40,000 Americans were killed by gun violence in 2017.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) April 26, 2019
Notice Gavin doesn’t have the decency to remove suicide from his stats because you know, all that matters blaming guns.
Three of the deadliest mass shootings in modern American history have occurred within just the past two years. Two. Years.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) April 26, 2019
Firearms are the second leading cause of death for American children and teens — and the first leading cause of death for Black children and teens. If we cannot protect our children, we've failed.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) April 26, 2019
He says nothing about gang violence here either.
An American woman is fatally shot by her partner every 16 hours.
Since 2010, gun-related murders of intimate partners have increased by 26%.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) April 26, 2019
Gavin conveniently leaves out how a firearm is the greatest equalizer for any woman.
This is a crisis. And rather than attempting to solve the issue, our leaders are off raising money for those who block commonsense gun legislation. It's immoral. It’s disgraceful. It’s pathetic. And it’s weak.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) April 26, 2019
Gavin’s hair is the real crisis.
As long as we have an administration that panders to the gun lobby, we will literally never have a chance to move forward and save lives. We cannot elect more politicians bought-and-paid-for by the @NRA.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) April 26, 2019
Wow.
Here's a thought. How about focusing on the problems in California instead of this or your ridiculous trip to El Salvador. You know the state you run that has some of the highest gas taxes in the US and you wonder why gas prices are so high?
— Mark Haywood (@sharkhaywood) April 26, 2019
Oops.
Are you going to govern our state or just run against Trump for your entire term?
— Paul F. Parmley (@PaulParmley) April 26, 2019
Oops some more.
Gavin spends his time being the King of social media instead of dealing with California’s homeless and public health epidemic, highest poverty, failing public ed and an almost insurmountable state debt & liability burden… #RecallGavinNewsom https://t.co/Gr77LJhXDR
— SilverPatriot (@SilverPatriot1) April 26, 2019
Whoda thunk?
No different than you choosing to spend time pandering to fringe rights groups rather than focusing on real issues facing California. I’ve already given you a list of suggestions. So far, I’ve seen no action. Just daily histrionics about yet another imaginary “crisis”. Stop, dude
— NotNancyPelosi (@NotNancyPelosi) April 26, 2019
Hold on a minute there Gov. you talk about @realDonaldTrump pandering to special interest groups but that is exactly what you do on a regular basis. Doubling Down on the the Double Standard.
— Shimasaki_Ichiban (@DarrenShimasaki) April 26, 2019
And you spend your time every day obsessing over Trump versus working on the issues you were elected to resolve. It would be nice if you represented all Californians versus Tom Steyer and the SEIU. @blackhawkrwf
— Al Norris (@AlNorris925) April 26, 2019
Way to totally faceplant over your own dumpster-fire of a state, Gavin.
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