What??? Oh yeah...it's California again...Never mind.

[Xtracho]

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/11/robert-farago/california-decriminalizes-possession-stolen-firearm/

[BF]

Sometimes I wish that the entire state would fall off into the ocean.  The rest of the country would be better off for it. 

[old2soon]

Back in 1968 when I was mustering out of Uncle Sugars Canoe Club and listening to all the pitches of the various corporations AND the C H P-I was pretty close to hooked! I was giving the C H P motor program SERIOUS consideration. But for some inexplicable reason I went back to Il. NOT much better but it was home. You see WHERE I reside now. Glad I live in a state where I can open carry or C C W.  There ought to be a way to physically join N Y and Ca. and then seperate them from our continent and float them to the north pole!  Cut to the chase-happyhappyhappyhappy I DO NOT reside in either state!  RIDE SAFE.

[Jess from VA]

Just like the Fed and other people's-republic States, they hate guns, but then refuse to aggressively prosecute and incarcerate those who obtain or use them illegally.

So only lawfully owned firearms and gun owners are the targets.  Makes perfect sense (to an insane person).

[Karen]

WTF are they thinking?   (NOT)

[Patrick]

Back in 1968 when I was mustering out of Uncle Sugars Canoe Club and listening to all the pitches of the various corporations AND the C H P-I was pretty close to hooked! I was giving the C H P motor program SERIOUS consideration. But for some inexplicable reason I went back to Il. NOT much better but it was home. You see WHERE I reside now. Glad I live in a state where I can open carry or C C W.  There ought to be a way to physically join N Y and Ca. and then seperate them from our continent and float them to the north pole!  Cut to the chase-happyhappyhappyhappy I DO NOT reside in either state!  RIDE SAFE.

All of New York !?   You want me to float away too !? 

Upstate New York is mostly republican/conservative. However the larger urban areas are democrat/liberal and that group seems to be growing.

New York has 62 counties and 46 of them voted republican, yet, THE main democrat still re-won. Many other democrats were defeated though. The 7 downstate counties carry the vote.

New York was once a great state, but, I have to go back pretty far.

[bigguy]

Upstate New York is mostly republican/conservative. However the larger urban areas are democrat/liberal and that group seems to be growing.

For some time, I've held the belief that that is where the main distinction is. Growing up a southern boy, I though them "Yankees" were just strange folks. Then I began to meet many fine people from northern states who were intelligent, charming, and seemed to have a valid moral compass. Also, as I spent more time in the growing urban areas of the south, I began to run across some folks, with southern accents, who were strange folks. At some point I began to put together the idea that the common denominator was, "urban."
This is not a new idea. A very smart man noted, more than 200 years ago, that, "When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe." That man was Thomas Jefferson.
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson-Truth! & Unproven!

[Willow]

... At some point I began to put together the idea that the common denominator was, "urban." ...

Not so much.  We have several fine brothers that live in urban or near urban areas.  Oss and G-man come to mind.  It's culture.  It is generally true that urban populations may tend to lend themselves to a liberal culture, but even there there will be folks who don't buy into that culture.

We get into trouble, as far as our accuracy is concerned, when we start determining to write off everyone in a particular geographical area.

I live in Kansas.  Kansas is largely a red, conservative culture, state.  Among my friends I know of several people who are not what the majority of Kansas is culturally.  The recent gubernatorial election was split low fifty to high forty percents.

We are a mixed country.  The world is a mixed world.  I'm troubled when I hear someone expressing a wish for California or some other state to slip into the sea.  I'm troubled when I hear someone espouse a desire to turn Iraq or Iran into a nuclear bomb generated glass surface.  We are a nation and a world of good people and not so good people.

My experience has been that one on one it appears I encounter more good people.  Unfortunately when push comes to shove my experience has been that there are more people willing to buy into the not so good mindsets.

Let's try each one to be the good exception wherever we live.   

[Patrick]

One thing I learned long ago when meeting new folks and  the ' where you from ' question comes up, we tell them upstate NY. That used to get a strange look, but, as time goes by, we now usually get an understanding nod.

[Varmintmist]

PA is like a girl with a real nice rack that doesnt shave her pits or use deoderant.

Everything in the middle is just fine, but the two sides ruin it for everyone.

[Jess from VA]