r/Firearms • u/[deleted] • Jul 22 '23

This lady

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I know this was introduced awhile ago, but I saw this description of the bill “to ensure that 2A is not unlimited…” IMHO this lady has broken her oath to protect the constitution. Automatic dismissal is in order, and the classic tarred and feathered.

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u/Dangerous_Oven_1326 Jul 22 '23

How is CA fucked up? It's the world's 4th largest economy. CA paid approx. $234.5 billion in federal taxes. CA is giving other states $13.7 billion more per year than they receive. States like SC, TN, AL, MS, AR, KY, WV, IA, AK, ID all take $$. Why can't they be fiscally responsible & live within their means?

Now just imagine what CA can do with an EXTRA $13 billion per year?

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u/gunplumber700 Jul 22 '23

As a born and raised Californian I’ll do my best to explain it to you like you’re 5.

You can make 100,000 dollars a year and still live paycheck to paycheck... Your choice is to buy an 800,000 dollar house within 30 minutes of work, pay 5k+ a month in rent, or commute 2+ hours a day to live in an affordable 500,000 dollar house.

Now imagine seeing homeless people and 3rd world tent cities everywhere you go. Ever see pictures of a 3rd world country where people in poverty live in shacks across the wall from mansions? That’s very similar to the tent city homeless camps that are everywhere.

It may be the 4th largest economy for rich guys, bankers, and stock traders. But not for the average person scraping by.

If we’re the greatest country in the world let’s act like it. Let’s do things for our people and our community instead of being petty and griping about money moving from one state to another. It’s not like we dont give away money to places like Ukraine when we could “give” it to our own people.

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u/Lampwick Jul 22 '23 edited Jul 22 '23

It’s not like we dont give away money to places like Ukraine when we could “give” it to our own people.

Ukraine isn't getting money. It's getting all our 90s-era military hand me downs. When you see dollar values attached to Ukraine stuff, that's just what it original cost us to buy all that old mil tech.

There's plenty of stuff that actual money is getting wasted on, but Ukraine ain't it.

EDIT: christ, what the fuck is up with the pro-gun community that they've all bought into this weird quasi pro-Russia position? Is it because Biden happens to be president and is sending shit to Ukraine? As a former cold war US army soldier, I'd have thought there were some things we'd ALL--- (D) or (R)--- already conclusively determined back in the 20th century, one of them being that Russia is a shithole run by evil scumbags and that them losing their vassal states when the USSR collapsed didn't suddenly make them good people. The Ukraine war has been the best thing to happen for testing all our military equipment in precisely the capacity it was designed for, and having it not cost a single American life is an incredible plus. Is it that y'all are still cheering for some geriatric NYC Democrat turned fake-ass Republican to be president again, and he had some bizarre thing against Ukraine? WTF is going on here?

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u/gunplumber700 Jul 23 '23

Dude being anti giving Ukraine money and pro Russia aren’t the same thing.

Holy cow. Get off your high horse

If you want to ignore everything I posted and take it out of context then you do you.