Newsom Exposes Truth of CA’s Taxpayer-Funded Anti-Gun Factoid Factory - Ammoland.com

U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- On July 21, California Gov. Gavin Newsom gave a press conference in which he attempted to bolster his image on crime heading into the home stretch of a hotly contested recall election. According to the California Attorney General’s office, homicides were up 31 percent in 2020 over 2019.

As is the habit of soft-on-violent-crime politicians, Newsom attempted to pin the blame for California’s homicide wave on inanimate objects. Describing the press conference in a headline, the Sacramento Bee reported, “‘We’re up against a gun epidemic.’ Gavin Newsom links rise in homicides to firearm sales.”

Newsom’s lazy assertion that the increase in gun sales in 2020 led to an increase in homicides wouldn’t normally be notable. However, this time Newsom’s baseless deflection is completely at odds with research authored by the Director of the Firearm Violence Research Center Garen Wintemute. The UC Davis-based center is California’s official state-funded anti-gun firearm factoid factory.

On July 5, the journal Injury Epidemiology published “Firearm purchasing and firearm violence during the coronavirus pandemic in the United States: a cross-sectional study.” As noted, the paper’s authors included Garen Wintemute along with a host of others associated with the taxpayer-funded center. Moreover, funding for the study was provided by the California Firearm Violence Research Center.

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