When the Supreme Court ruled on Friday to allow a Texas ban on abortions after six weeks, many considered it early evidence of the high court's inclination to overturn the groundbreaking Roe v. Wade decision protecting abortion rights. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, however, has his eye on using the ruling to ban assault rifles—weapons of choice for many of the mass murderers the right is conveniently less hesitant to condemn. “I am outraged by yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing Texas’s ban on most abortion services to remain in place, and largely endorsing Texas’s scheme to insulate its law from the fundamental protections of Roe v. Wade,” Newsom said in a statement on Saturday. “But if states can now shield their laws from review by the federal courts that compare assault weapons to Swiss Army knives, then California will use that authority to protect people’s lives, where Texas used it to put women in harm’s way.” Read more