Commentary
President Joe Biden looked chipper in his recent State of the Union Address. That means his re-election announcement could come soon. And it means Gov. Gavin Newsom’s own quest for the presidency probably will have to wait until 2028. In the meantime, he’s still burnishing his bona fides with the left wing of the Democratic Party, which likely will become even more dominant over the next six years.
The latest is his continued push for even more gun control laws. Even though California’s more than 100 such laws haven’t prevent the recent spate of mass shootings. Nor would any new laws, had they been on the books already, prevented the shootings—if only because mass killers obviously don’t care about following laws against murder of any kind, and in any case can get guns in other states or on the black market. As Dan Walters reported:…