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Old 01-25-2023, 11:09 AM
 
Location: So Cal
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He's getting angry. When lefties become angry, they become tyrants. They dwell on the idea of controlling people, and it becomes an obsession. Because, if only they could control people, it would surely be utopia... Of course, in reality, it has never worked that way before and likely never will.


I wouldn't want to be hanging around in California these days with all the mental illness, violence, drugs, homeless vagrants, coupled with incompetent leadership that only knows how to pass the blame onto others for their own failed leadership. Lefties in power are their own worst enemies, and I'm afraid Newsome is going to show is why, if he actually starts making heavy handed decisions. People are generally more likely to make stupid decision when they become angry.





He's not confused. Remember the time he said a California city looks like a real **** hole? He is aware of what's going on.
Maybe you're talking about the trains, too? I think he said something about it looking like a third world country.
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Old 01-25-2023, 11:12 AM
 
Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan
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Maybe you're talking about the trains, too? I think he said something about it looking like a third world country.

Maybe that's what he said. I recall he was sitting in a vehicle waving to people when it was claimed that he made the remark.
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Old 01-25-2023, 11:14 AM
 
Location: San Diego
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How are those correlated? As far as I know both shooters have zero or very light criminal pasts. Which state would either the 66 year old man or the 72 year old man be in jail and what for? What light on crime policies lead to these shootings?
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Good point.
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These are great questions if they don't get lost in the usual "let's be outraged!" apoplectic pile-on, LOL.
Anybody know?
Well, now we've heard from the "Let's not try to reinstate laws that HAVE worked for hundreds of years" contingent.

Anybody have any suggestions for how to deter or punish crimes as our crime rates soar?
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Old 01-25-2023, 11:16 AM
 
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How are those correlated? As far as I know both shooters have zero or very light criminal pasts. Which state would either the 66 year old man or the 72 year old man be in jail and what for? What light on crime policies lead to these shootings?
In these two particular insistences, light on crime policies aren't to blame. They just show that firearms restrictions/laws don't do much.

There are plenty of other examples of "light on crime" policies resulted in more violence. This isn't something exclusive to CA though, it is happening in many states across the country.
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Old 01-25-2023, 11:20 AM
 
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Could it be, Gavin, that your ideas simply don't work?
he will just double down on it
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Old 01-25-2023, 11:30 AM
 
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he will just double down on it
Authoritarian is going to Authoritarian....it's what they do.
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Old 01-25-2023, 11:31 AM
 
Location: Boston
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Always the same....they think if they take away the guns that the killings will stop.

there's only 350,000,000 guns here in the US. Maybe a house to house search? Might as well look for classified documents too while they're searching through our houses.

Shouldn't be a problem getting them back. Let's schedule that right after they reinstate criminal penalties for pot possession.
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Old 01-25-2023, 11:34 AM
 
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there's only 350,000,000 guns here in the US. Maybe a house to house search? Might as well look for classified documents too while they're searching through our houses.

Shouldn't be a problem getting them back. Let's schedule that right after they reinstate criminal penalties for pot possession.
Hahaha the way those docs keep turning up I'm about to search my attic!
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Old 01-25-2023, 11:35 AM
 
Location: San Diego
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he will just double down on it
He already IS doubling down on it.

His schemes have already been tried , both in California and elsewhere, always with the same results: Either nothing, or increasing crime rates. He's just hoping that normal people won't remember that.

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State lawmakers have imposed mandatory waiting periods on the purchase of firearms. They have banned military-style assault rifles, one of only eights states along with D.C., to do so. The state has a “red flag” law that allows guns to be seized from people believed to be a threat (i.e. people who have committed no crime -Ed.). And California voters overwhelmingly approved a limit on the number of bullets allowed in a gun’s magazine, a measure caught up for years in the courts.

“What the hell is going on?” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said in angry remarks delivered after visiting with victims’ families in Half Moon Bay, a beach town south of San Francisco where a 66-year-old man is accused of killing seven farmworkers the previous day.
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Old 01-25-2023, 11:40 AM
 
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Why do we even have laws if people still commit crimes? Anyone ever think of that? What’s the point?
Same reason we still use locks. Locks won't prevent a break-in, but they will keep honest people honest.
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