Skelton: Jerry Brown should have signed more gun bills
When the legislative session ended last month, lawmakers sent Gov. Jerry Brown 18 gun-related bills. He vetoed several of them, including a measure that would bar repeat drunken drivers from possessing a firearm for 10 years.
In his Thursday column, George Skelton says Brown’s rejection was a mistake.
“The message is that the governor doesn’t see why a convicted drunk or druggie shouldn’t be armed,” he writes.
Skelton previously wrote that the bill, SB 755 by Sen. Lois Wolk (D-Davis), should be a “no-brainer.”
Citing studies from the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program, he notes that a gun owner with a misdemeanor conviction is five times more likely to commit a violent crime with a firearm than someone without a record.
All of Skelton’s columns are here.
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