UPIJune 8 (UPI) -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday proposed a 28th U.S. constitutional amendment that would give gun-safety measures constitutional protection while preserving Second Amendment rights.
"Our ability to make a more perfect union is literally written into the Constitution," Newsom said in a statement. "The 28th Amendment will enshrine in the Constitution common sense gun-safety measures that Democrats, Republicans, independents, and gun owners overwhelmingly support -- while leaving the Second Amendment unchanged and respecting America's gun-owning tradition."
Newsom said his vision of a new amendment would include universal background checks for gun buyers, raising the age to buy guns to 21, firearm waiting periods for gun purchases and barring the civilian purchase of assault weapons.
What he proposes isn't a freedom protected by the Constitution, but a restriction on freedom born in fear and do good wokeness without a clear idea of results if made fact. The last Constitutional amendment related to saving the US from alcohol for a different wokeness do good attempt didn't work out nearly as well as they thought and only opened the door for turning people into criminals and inventing organized crime.
