Editorial: Newsom’s Texas-style gun ploy is an emotionally satisfying, and very bad, idea
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Dec 17, 2021
3 minutes
Perhaps Gov. Gavin Newsom was only joking on Saturday when he called for a Texas-style law that would prod Californians to sue one another over guns, just as SB 8 incentivizes Texans to seek bounties to block abortions. Maybe he was speaking only out of frustration, or maybe he just wanted to buck up fellow blue-staters who are rightly appalled that the U.S. Supreme Court didn’t strike down the Texas law last week and instead appears headed toward embracing
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