WOW! So much for the great peoples republic of Kalifornica. Didn't know we were so hated around the rest of the country.
Pthfndr, lighten up. People have a right to complain about what's coming out of this state. You can't blame them. After all, we did give them Feinstein and Boxer, not to mention model for all kinds of ideas for stupid laws etc.
I was born in Texas, raised in South Dakota, and grew up in Viet Nam. The Navy brought me out here thirty some years ago and left me here. I've seen how things are in the rest of the country and Yeah, we have some great thing out here. Yosemite, Big Sur, Shasta, all those things are nice. Have you seen Jackson Hole WY? Kind of gives Yosmite a run for it's money. The Grand Canyon? Haliakala(SP?) in Hawaii? Aspen? The Rockies at sunrise? The Great Plains? My point is, we have no lock on the physical stuff or the scenery in this country. That isn't what we have to complain about. The social and political climate in this place is becoming intolerable for those of us who live here and it is spilling out over the rest of the country. No wonder people don't like us.
That being said, Where is Littleton? Not in Kalifornica is it? You can't blame us for that. Kalifornicans driving up property values? How is that? Why, whenever someone selling real estate in another state spots a CA license plate on a prospective buyer's car they automatically jack up the price 10, 20, or 30 thousand dollars. I submit that it isn't us who are driving up the prices, it's the greedy (insert your state here) sellers who are doing that. I've seen it happen. Not all bad things come from here. South Dakota gave us Tom Daschle, Massachusets gave us Ted Kennedy, New York gave us Chuckie Schumer, Florida gave us Janet Reno, Arkansas gave us Clinton. Need I go on?
I'm a knife and gun dealer here in lower Kalifornica (San Diego) and yeah, I've thought about leaving just to make sure my business can survive. I have also been collecting guns for about 30 years and would like to keep them. I was looking real hard at Nevada.
Besides the fact that my wife won't leave here, (she hates this situation more than I do but won't leave her grandkids), I got to thinking about how I feel about refugees. I absolutely refuse to become one of those I have so little respect for. So, I'm going to stay here and fight this.
I'm not sure yet how, I just know that if we keep doing what we are doing, we will lose. The NRA has written us off and the legislature has become a power unto itself. The public here is so fragmented and unorganized,(that's what DIVERSITY gets you, by the way)that there just isn't the means to counter them. It looks hopeless, I know.
I have some ideas, and when I get them fully developed, you'll be hearing from me. I'm not going to go quietly and this fight is just getting started.
You can bitch about Kalifornica all you want, it's still a (sort of) free country. Those of us who live here have the right to, the rest of you can follow along, if you like. When we turn things around though, just remember who did it.
Peace! Live free or die.
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Dennis
"That no free man should ever be disarmed". (Thomas Jefferson)
wrightknife@ixpres.com