Newsom says DeSantis ‘scared to death’
California Gov. Gavin Newsom slammed his Florida counterpart Gov. Ron DeSantis for signing a bill allowing permitless carry into law last week, just days after the country’s latest school shooting in Nashville.
“They don’t care about our kids,” Newsom said in an interview that aired Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside With Jen Psaki.” “Cause if they did, they’d ban these damn weapons of war. They would have background checks that require some common damn sense.”
DeSantis signed the bill in the week after the March 27 mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, which led to the deaths of three children and three adults. Since the shootings, protests at the Tennessee Capitol have roiled the state...
