04-26-2017, 12:02 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-26-2017, 12:02 AM by Eric the Green.)
The plastic bag bans are great. I don't know why some hicks in the CA sticks can't put the stuff they buy at Walmart into a bag they bring or buy. They have the same ability to bring a bag as hipsters like me do. Their arms work just as well, and maybe better.
The hick areas were pissed already. Almost every state has strong right-wing rural areas. The Bakersfield/lower valley area and the mountains in the northeast might as well be in Idaho or Kansas, and have been that way for decades. I say, let them be pissed along with the folks in West Virginia and Kentucky and Alabama. Same types.
CA knows what's best, compared to most other states. We've cleaned up gerrymandering; that alone puts us miles ahead of others. We have legal weed now too, as long as Trump/Sessions don't knock us down. We're the leader in energy and climate. Imagine a state as large as ours, #1 in population, just about right on top in energy efficiency. Now we just need to get rid of the death penalty. In that respect, we are still barbaric.
I don't see how the new ammo laws, which the voters passed easily, put gun hobbyists out of business; iirc those are limits on how much ammo you can buy per gun. It doesn't raise the price of ammo.
To those who say liberals should ditch the gun issue, I say simply, we can't, because we care. That's what liberals do. If you want to be armed against the state (meaning in general, not CA), I understand. But that doesn't mean that the state you are fighting, is going to agree with you.
When civil war or revolution beckons, all bets are off, and it may well be time to get armed. But it will take far more than armed citizens to win anyway. If possible, a non-violent approach is best, depending on how tyrannical the opponent is. Clearly, non-violent revolution did not work in Syria, for example. They faced a monster named Assad.
The hick areas were pissed already. Almost every state has strong right-wing rural areas. The Bakersfield/lower valley area and the mountains in the northeast might as well be in Idaho or Kansas, and have been that way for decades. I say, let them be pissed along with the folks in West Virginia and Kentucky and Alabama. Same types.
CA knows what's best, compared to most other states. We've cleaned up gerrymandering; that alone puts us miles ahead of others. We have legal weed now too, as long as Trump/Sessions don't knock us down. We're the leader in energy and climate. Imagine a state as large as ours, #1 in population, just about right on top in energy efficiency. Now we just need to get rid of the death penalty. In that respect, we are still barbaric.
I don't see how the new ammo laws, which the voters passed easily, put gun hobbyists out of business; iirc those are limits on how much ammo you can buy per gun. It doesn't raise the price of ammo.
To those who say liberals should ditch the gun issue, I say simply, we can't, because we care. That's what liberals do. If you want to be armed against the state (meaning in general, not CA), I understand. But that doesn't mean that the state you are fighting, is going to agree with you.
When civil war or revolution beckons, all bets are off, and it may well be time to get armed. But it will take far more than armed citizens to win anyway. If possible, a non-violent approach is best, depending on how tyrannical the opponent is. Clearly, non-violent revolution did not work in Syria, for example. They faced a monster named Assad.