“We’re going to control the controllable, the things we have control of,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said during an event at the state Capitol. “California leads this national conversation. When California moves, other states move in the same direction.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom and top legislative Democrats pledged Wednesday to expedite more than a dozen bills aimed at reducing gun violence in California, promising to quickly pass laws that would allow private citizens to sue firearm manufacturers and distributors as well as require school officials to investigate credible threats of a mass shooting, following the violent attack Tuesday on a school in Texas.
The mass shooting of at least 19 children and two adults at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school Tuesday prompted the leaders to take a harder look at how California could step up its efforts to address gun violence, they said. The bill passed the Senate on Tuesday on a 24-10 vote, and now heads to the Assembly. It was prompted by Newsom, who urged state lawmakers in December to use the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to block the Texas abortion law as the impetus to craft a similar bill in California that would target the gun industry.
Newsom and legislative leaders said they plan to pass and sign as many of the bills as possible before they break for a summer recess on July 1.Assembly Republican leader James Gallagher criticized state Democrats for the decision to speed up the review of bills in the wake of this week’s Texas attack.
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