I don't plan to leave, but as of now, I don't plan to buy any more property in this state.
San Francisco Chron said:
Only two other cities in the country -- Washington, D.C., and Chicago -- have similar bans.
I love SF and it would be a tragedy if SF became a place like DC with a sky-high murder rate. This ban is a disaster. Also the ban on manufacturing firearms. That's crazy. The one thing SF needs are more working-class jobs. That is a constant complaint there. Firearms manufacturing is environmentally friendly, does not introduce firearms into the community, and it's the kind of business SF should be attracting. Actually there are quite a few firearms manufacturers in CA that don't sell any of their products here, so CA gets all of the benefits of having businesses here, but none of the firearms. Kinda like in Japan or Singapore where they also manufacture quite a bit of arms.
Ah this whole thing is sad. I had hopes for Prop 77.
I still don't think it's time to abandon CA.
This was NOT a referendum on gun ownership. I think gun issues played only a very minor role in this election, except in SF. The way this played out does not tell us what are the prospects of the RKBA amend, for example. Prop 73 came very close to passing, and I think the RKBA amend will be more widely supported than Prop 73 was.
I think the issue with this election was mainly a referendum on Arnie. Also many voters were upset about all the money that was spent on it, and they thought it was a "nuclear option" tactic from Arnie (which is accurate). Finally, as is often the case with props in CA, all of the issues were slightly confusing, some of them were mind-boggling, like the perscription initiatives. Voters didn't like that.