what I wonder about is what keeps those of you who live in state that is unfriendly to gunowners and is probly more liberal than other states there?
I couldn't tell you. I moved from socialist Maryland back to the US State of Virginia specifically to get away from the Liberal-run Government there.
As bad as it was under Gov. Paris Glendenning, there was the very real prospect that a Kennedy was going to wind up in the Governor's mansion, i.e, Kathleen Kennedy-Townsend. To their credit the people of Maryland rejected not only her but another Kennedy who was running for Congress in Montgomery County Md.
The Liberals, i.e., the Democrats or far left Socialists, are still in control there however, and as always that means high crime, a living nightmare of traffic mismanagement, an erosion of basic services such as eduction and road repair combined with skyrocketing taxes, rampant corruption in government, severely unAmerican attitudes towards basic property rights, clearly abusive and unlawfull "policing" (e.g., gun confiscations and informant networks developed under Chief Moose), the presence of a very large and tax-intensive minority group of some kind or another and, if they're Blacks, then with the usual rampant anti-White racisim and shrill demands for my money by their politicians ("gimmie gimmie gimmie our reparations you White debils!"), and a thousand other points of darkness that characterize life under American socialism.
Western Maryland is great, unfortunately it's attached to the far-left socialist cesspool that the rest of the State has become.
. I am glad that I got in to guns at a young age, before I have responsibilities or relationships that would tie me to California. I can now plan where I want to live, my college and my career and take into account my gun hobby.