I believe that you're forgetting a crucial fact about all of those freedom loving people (defined as "Californians who support gun rights") "outside of LA and Frisco," and that is that those people comprise a significant minority of the state's population. First of all, Democrats significantly outnumber Republicans in California. Secondly, California Republicans often (but not always) tend to be less conservative than in many other states. Governor Schwarzenegger is fairly typical, and he's not really a conservative. Schwarzenegger supported (before he was governor) the AWB, and he continues to be a gun control advocate and to make public statements to that effect.anygunanywhere wrote:I keep hearing about how conservative and freedom loving the people outsid of LA and Frisco are. I believe it is about time they walked the walk.
Now, here are some salient population facts about California which you failed to consider:
Population of California: 36,457,549
Population of California counties that vote overwhelmingly liberal/left:
Population of Alameda County: 1,457,426
Population of Contra Costa Country: 1,024,319
Population of San Mateo County: 705,499
Population of Marin County: 248,742
Population of San Francisco County: 744,041
Population of Los Angeles County: 9,948,081
Population of Santa Barbara County: 400,335
Population of Monterey County: 410,206
Population of Santa Cruz County: 249,705
Population of Santa Clara County: 1,731,281
Population of San Benito County: 55,842
Population of Solano County: 411,680
Population of Sacramento County: 1,374,724
Population of Napa County: 133,522
Population of Sonoma County: 466,891
Population of Lake County: 65,933
Population of Mendocino County: 88,109
Population of Humbolt County: 128,330
Population of Imperial County: 160,301
Population of Mono County: 12,754
Population of Alpine County: 1,180
Total population of the counties listed above: 32,818,901, or roughly 90% of the state's population.
California has 58 counties in all. That means that 21 of the state's 58 counties (36%), which represent roughly 25% of California's geography, have roughly 90% of the state's population; and that 90% votes overwhelmingly liberal on most issues. In California, which may or may not be the same as Texas in that regard, the vast majority of liberals do not support gun rights, period. The bottom line is, it doesn't matter if those Californians who do actively support gun rights "walk the walk" as you put it until their shoes wear out, the state will continue to infringe on those rights because the overwhelming majority of the state's voters want it that way, and it's not really fair to the state's gun rights advocates to accuse them of not "walking the walk." The conservatives that can leave, do. The ones that stay tend to have good reasons for staying. The answer isn't all that simplistic.