If there’s one theme that has remained constant over the years is that California’s Legislative leadership honestly believe they are the sharpest knives in the political drawer. Given their smarty-pants attitude, they assume they can do all kinds of stuff the rest of us normal-folk can’t, like pretend the Constitution doesn’t exist
They kick the Constitution to the curb every day and it doesn’t bother them one little bit. This past week in the Senate and Assembly Public Safety Committees, we heard some real doozies.
During our testimony in opposition to AB 1078 GOC pointed out that the research regarding gun violence used by the author Assemblyman Marc Berman is the weakest form of statistical science – correlation does not equal causation. To that Berman leaned into the microphone and said “I don’t care.”
Typical.
Well, it’s obvious that Berman doesn’t care about something else: The truth!
And then there was Assemblymember Celeste Rodriguez who was positively mystified why someone would question her mandate (AB 1187) to force anyone buying a gun to take an 8-hour class. “Why does the state of California require more extensive training to obtain a driver’s license than a firearm safety certificate?” she chirped. Well, ma’am – it’s because driving is a privilege. It’s not a right. Equating a driver’s license to the rights of the 2A are kind of like comparing President Trump to Vladmir Putin. There’s no comparison, lady!
And when GOC responded fiercely to her inflammatory and dishonest comments that guns are the #1 killer of children in the US – the Committee Chair actually gave her the opportunity to respond to GOC’s charge. She wasn’t interested.
These people are not only liars – they can’t win on the merits of an issue so they resort to either steam rolling the Constitution or flat-out lying. No matter which way we look at it – it’s cowardly.
Moving on to Assemblyman Haribidian, he put his own spin on what the Constitution says when he spoke in support of limiting individuals to the purchase of 3 guns a month. “There isn’t much of an argument to be said that 3 guns per month – or even one gun per month isn’t somehow sufficient legal access to firearms.”
Huh?
There’s that word “sufficient.” What isn’t “sufficient” is for some holier-than-thou legislator making any sort of decision as to what is “sufficient” for me – or my family. The arrogance! The hubris!
If I want to buy ten guns a month, I should be able to. If I want to buy a big, fat 4-ton gas guzzler pick-up, I should be able to without some yahoo telling me it would be more “sufficient’ for me to buy a Prius. I should be able to chug a 32-ounce cup of sugary soda if I want without some dolly-do-gooder telling me it’s not “sufficient” for my overall health.
It does seem, however, that this new crowd of legislators are mad as a pen full of wet hens – maybe because they are a hot mess on the national stage. But this is nothing new to us at GOC, because we have seen it all. In 2016, former Assemblymember Reginald Jones Sawyer responded to GOC’s Sam Paredes and arrogantly dismissed the issue of “Constitutionality” when he proclaimed “the Legislature sometimes ignores whether or not it’s constitutional or not – we go ahead and make laws because we’re California and we do it anyways….”
The Left treats the Constitution like its nothing more than used toilet paper when they disagree with what it says and then they dearly clutch it to their chests when they need it. No matter what, though, GOC will continue to hold fast to its original principles – and will speak the truth – every single minute of every single day.