One little thing that always interests me about California is that we used to be "The Wild West" state, you know, the place where EVERYONE has a gun to save their ass with, and the politicians realized that the law-abiding citizens should be armed to protect themselves from the bad guys.. yet somehow we became one of the most firearm regulated states in the country (Granted some are worse, but they're on the east, the east was never the Wild West.. just the Tame East)
How the heck did we jump from one to the other in a little over a century? Hell, if this fork of history repeats itself, I'll give my future grandchildren money to move to a different, more-free state.
What was the big excuse to introduce gun control in the first place? That we as a society were becoming more civilized, and therefore firearms were not necessary, thus gun control should be enacted because a civilized society should not have murders and crime and whatnot?? If that was the reasoning of the time, then I would have to say that the politicians were falsely using broad generalizations about the society, however they need to realize that not all of the people in the society need to be civilized for the society to be considered so.
Alright.. It's 2:47AM, enough ranting. Lee signing out.