I have enjoyed posting on here over the years and talking with some great people. It has been quite helpful to experience and keep in contact with people in free parts of the United States while living in California.
However in modern times with internet use being so well tracked and living in California I no longer feel comfortable freely talking and sharing firearms.
California continues to get worse regularly and while leading the nation in militant police forces restricts the population's ownership of arms more and more. Tracking, registration, increased prohibited persons and things to make one prohibited, ammunition purchase restrictions, firearm type and features etc.
It is to a point now that people following California law are choosing to disarm themselves, and I strongly believe the law only really works if people buy into it and adhere to it. I can no longer advocate people do so in California, but I also don't want to encourage anyone to get into serious trouble.
However I think if anyone truly wants to remain armed long term they need to own firearms off the books and probably stored in various places including some not tied to them, and if they want effective modern arms as was the intention of the 2nd Amendment they are in conflict with the state of California.
I have also come to realize that the freedoms we have as a people depend on having a good people, and talking about firearms separately from all other things doesn't accurately portray what is needed to keep the RKBA strong.
We try to keep it separate from all other things to make it as all inclusive as possible here, but the extent I feel is detrimental to the big picture sometimes.
If the people do not trust themselves they allow government which is naturally motivated to disarm and consolidate power to disarm them. In California we celebrate 'diversity' so strongly that everything foreign is celebrated more than any of the long term things that have formed and made America what is had been. (Something which was certainly not perfect but was pretty amazing and why people flocked here long before it was primarily economic incentive.) The corporations with the biggest influence and pockets encourage it because they want to hire skilled workers for as little as possible which means hiring mainly foreign cultures today.
You are left with a ragtag population that does not agree on creed or culture or values and doesn't see eye to eye and distrusts itself, and the police state happily moves in to the security vacuum. The legal system expands many times over dividing and conquering while never actually reaching the level of security and peace of mind the people once provided for themselves expending far fewer resources.
Arms are your ultimate power and when things really go wrong it is who is well armed and organized that determine the outcome.
Gradual adoption and following of unconstitutional weapon laws embolden those that don't really have complete power to rule as if they do because only those following their orders will be well armed. Ultimately what is law is really only what is backed up by the people with the guns, and the legal system can write down whatever it wants but depends on men with guns to actually put it into action. The 2nd Amendment was to insure those men are the full body of the population, a population that trusts itself and elects some to positions of law enforcement to be on the front lines. Not a thin blue line of bureaucracy that follows orders.
I hope the rest of the nation continues to work hard to retain their rights and I hope to one day join you in a free state. Until then I am so far behind enemy lines it is dangerous to be part of open firearm discussion anymore.
However in modern times with internet use being so well tracked and living in California I no longer feel comfortable freely talking and sharing firearms.
California continues to get worse regularly and while leading the nation in militant police forces restricts the population's ownership of arms more and more. Tracking, registration, increased prohibited persons and things to make one prohibited, ammunition purchase restrictions, firearm type and features etc.
It is to a point now that people following California law are choosing to disarm themselves, and I strongly believe the law only really works if people buy into it and adhere to it. I can no longer advocate people do so in California, but I also don't want to encourage anyone to get into serious trouble.
However I think if anyone truly wants to remain armed long term they need to own firearms off the books and probably stored in various places including some not tied to them, and if they want effective modern arms as was the intention of the 2nd Amendment they are in conflict with the state of California.
I have also come to realize that the freedoms we have as a people depend on having a good people, and talking about firearms separately from all other things doesn't accurately portray what is needed to keep the RKBA strong.
We try to keep it separate from all other things to make it as all inclusive as possible here, but the extent I feel is detrimental to the big picture sometimes.
If the people do not trust themselves they allow government which is naturally motivated to disarm and consolidate power to disarm them. In California we celebrate 'diversity' so strongly that everything foreign is celebrated more than any of the long term things that have formed and made America what is had been. (Something which was certainly not perfect but was pretty amazing and why people flocked here long before it was primarily economic incentive.) The corporations with the biggest influence and pockets encourage it because they want to hire skilled workers for as little as possible which means hiring mainly foreign cultures today.
You are left with a ragtag population that does not agree on creed or culture or values and doesn't see eye to eye and distrusts itself, and the police state happily moves in to the security vacuum. The legal system expands many times over dividing and conquering while never actually reaching the level of security and peace of mind the people once provided for themselves expending far fewer resources.
Arms are your ultimate power and when things really go wrong it is who is well armed and organized that determine the outcome.
Gradual adoption and following of unconstitutional weapon laws embolden those that don't really have complete power to rule as if they do because only those following their orders will be well armed. Ultimately what is law is really only what is backed up by the people with the guns, and the legal system can write down whatever it wants but depends on men with guns to actually put it into action. The 2nd Amendment was to insure those men are the full body of the population, a population that trusts itself and elects some to positions of law enforcement to be on the front lines. Not a thin blue line of bureaucracy that follows orders.
I hope the rest of the nation continues to work hard to retain their rights and I hope to one day join you in a free state. Until then I am so far behind enemy lines it is dangerous to be part of open firearm discussion anymore.
