Instead of actually, you know, dealing with their own problems, Mayor Newsom is trying to legislate other cities.

A city hit hard by gun violence should not have gun sales at its back door, said Mayor Gavin Newsom, who is expected to announce today that The City is seeking state legislation to end gun shows at the Cow Palace.

The Cow Palace is in Daly City. The back door to San Fran? Does that make Oakland the front door? I’d lock and bar the front door first.

Although the gun shows are legal, Newsom said numerous illegal gun transactions occur in the parking lot during the show, which will take place Saturday and Sunday. Another gun show is scheduled in November.

I have never seen an illegal transaction at Cow Palace gun shows. Anywhere. I have also never seen Newsom at a gun show there. But what do I know, I only, you know, actually attend them.

While the exhibition hall is technically located in Daly City, it is just blocks away from San Francisco’s Sunnydale Housing Project, one of many neighborhoods in The City plagued by gun violence.

Technically in another city. Also physically, legally, geographically, morally, universally and actually.

While county ordinances banning firearms on government property continue to proliferate in the nine-county Bay Area, gun owners continue to fight what they call an attack on the law-abiding gun culture. […] “These local governments are taking advantage of a signal, although I think it is the wrong signal, that it’s deuces wild when it comes to passing gun law,” said Donald Kilmer, the attorney representing the gun show promoters challenging Alameda County. “Once we win against Alameda, we’ll challenge the other ordinances.”

I eagerly await the coming War on Fat People, where Frisco tries to ban spoons and dinner plates in Chicago.

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