Bellevue, WA -(AmmoLand.com)- A letter from California Assemblyman Miguel Santiago to Gov. Gavin Newsom shows the 53rd District legislator is more interested in gun control than he is about controlling the deadly coronavirus, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.
In his April 13 letter, Santiago declared,
“Firearm and ammunition sales have surged exponentially in the last 30 days with some retailers claiming an increase of 70 percent in the 11 days following Italy’s reported outbreak of COVID-19 cases. While personal safety is extremely important during these challenging times, so is public safety… Adding more firearms to our current state of affairs perpetuates the cycle of public panic and impulsive action. An increased population of firearms in our state not only poses a greater risk to children and families who are largely confined to their homes, but also to our communities facing racially motivated or otherwise targeted hate…By suspending firearm and ammunition sales and arming Californians with strong safeguards on public health and safety reinforced by state peace officers, we can mitigate undue risks to our public.”
“At a time when so many are fighting this virus and so many more have lost their jobs due to the governor’s ‘stay home’ order, and the state’s economy is hurting,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “Santiago’s
preoccupation with restricting the rights of gun owners seems, at the very least, to be completely out of place.“His letter to the governor has nothing to do with containing the spread of the virus and everything to do with preventing people from buying guns and ammunition,” Gottlieb continued. “Santiago obviously cares more about his gun prohibition agenda than saving lives from the coronavirus or from criminals preying on unarmed victims.” California has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, and Newsom’s effort to keep gun stores closed, using the COVID-19 crisis as a convenient excuse, is rapidly losing credibility.
“Since Santiago is so interested in gun control,” Gottlieb stated, “he should know that restricting the rights of law-abiding firearms owners, and those who want to buy their first firearm, is not the panacea to the pandemic. At a time when jail inmates are being released to protect them from infection, Santiago wants to prevent honest citizens from protecting themselves from criminals. He’s neither interested in public health or public safety. He’s just interested in public disarmament.”
About CCRKBA
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
If one takes time to understand Santiago’s perspective, it is easy to understand his priorities. AS HE SEES IT (not me!) – in US guns kill 30-40k every year, with many of them being children. COVID-19 has so far only killed some 20k who were mostly the old and crippled, and is a one time thing. Given that perspective, if one agreed with him – it would be easy to see that guns are worse than the virus. Of course those of us who have taken a serious look know that guns save 500k-3M every year, and that COVID-19 has… Read more »
Western mass here sounds like he wants as much of Bloomberg’s communist money as he can get. Believe me guys if we don’t get to the polls we are screwed .Bloomberg is buying up the Dems in all the swing states and if they get in they owe him. We need to stop them from the local city votes all the way to November all the law suits and letters in the world won’t help us. (GET OUT AND VOTE AND BRING FRIENDS WITH YOU !)
Well of course he’s more interested in gun control. Dems need a crisis to advance their agenda, the ‘pandemic’ is the latest to be used.
Chill, brother, he’s a democrat, what did you expect? While there are a few who have a love for the Second Amendment, most seem not too. This is typical leftist BS. I broke a tooth three weeks ago when this lock down stuff started. My dentist looed at it and said, by order of the State, No major dental work that’s not an emergency, if its not abscessed, it waits. My brother needs a kidney stone taken out, they told him the same thing and stuck a bypass in around it (in and out in hours), come back after Corona-gedden… Read more »
Every Democrat in government, no matter on which level, cannot be trusted to guarantee the freedoms that are listed in the Constitution. They adhere to the party line and are out to maintain and increase their own power. NEVER vote for a Democrat under any circumstances.
Today is the anniversary of the most important day in the history of Firearms Rights. On a bloody battle field 245 years ago. A group of citizens banded together. To fight against the Tyranny that was being forced upon they. By an Omnipotent Regime. They were unsure of the outcome of their fight. Yet fight they did because they knew their way of life was at stake. Why people fight for Freedom has taken many forms. While Oppression is always the same. Denying people of the Right to choose their destiny. Whether it be Firearms Right, Voting Rights, The Right… Read more »