Those who want voters to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom joined crime victim advocates at the state Capitol last Tuesday to accuse the governor of being too lenient on lawbreakers as the state experiences a new wave of crime.
They castigated him for unilaterally suspending executions of murderers and making it easier for felons to win release from state prisons.
âThe thing that really alarms me about what the governor did, is that itâs a continuation of policies to undermine the criminal justice system, and to put dangerous people back out onto the streets,â said Marc Klaas, whose daughter, Polly, was murdered 25 years ago by a recently released felon. The killer, Richard Allen Davis, is one of 737 murderers benefiting from Newsomâs death penalty suspension.
Outgunned: Why California s groundbreaking firearms law is failing
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Two decades ago, California legislators added a new weapon to the stateâs growing arsenal of gun-control measures, already among the toughest in the nation. Their motivation came from 2,000 miles away in a shaken Chicago suburb.
It was there that a gunman opened fire in an engine factory where heâd worked for nearly 40 years. He killed four people and wounded four others before pulling the trigger on himself. It was soon revealed that some of the weapons he smuggled inside should have been earlier confiscated because of his past criminal convictions.
In the wake of the rampage, and with lofty expectations, California became the first state in the country to create a database identifying thousands of people whoâd legally purchased guns but were now deemed too dangerous to be armed.