Poll: Californians Favor Gun Restrictions Over Self-Defense Rights
It's friggin' California
Fueling the Golden State's gun-control debate, a new statewide poll says a wide margin of California voters favor beefing up what already are among the country's toughest gun laws.
They back tighter controls and taxes on ammunition sales and outright bans on more weapons, according to the new Field Poll, and strongly reject training teachers to carry concealed weapons at schools.
In record numbers, California voters now say it's more important to put new controls on gun ownership than to protect Americans' rights to own guns, the poll says.
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Screw California!
We gotta get out of this place
If it's the last thing we ever do
We gotta get out of this place
Girl, there's a better life for me and you,
That's my state!!111!
And people wonder why so many political refugees from Nanny states like California, New York or Illinois are fleeing here to Texas.
I don't believe it.
Pending forcible return to Mexico California must be immediately strictly quarantined. No on goes in, and most importantly no one gets out, ever.
Has the government controlled education system stopped teaching about the Constitution, what it means, and its value in today's society?
Why do I live here, again?