I've just left the People's Republic of California for Colorado. One of the main reasons is that the P.R.C. destroyed too many of my First, Second, and Fourth Amendment civil rights.
I found an eight-inch Python on the internet well over a year ago, haggled with the seller, and sent him a check, only to discover I couldn't so-called "import" it into the P.R.C. because it hadn't passed the so-called "safety inspection," which is just more anti-Second Amendment bigotry in action.
I'm taking my tax and investment dollars out of the P.R.C., and will do everything possible to help Colorado mature into a shall issue state.