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1. 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 12:57:23 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

   2) According to the new language, "The year 2020 saw an unprecedented surge in firearm and ammunition sales across the nation, and this trend has continued into 2021." They say that the tax is needed because "This surge in firearm and ammunition sales and profits has occurred alongside an unprecedented nationwide spike in shootings and gun homicides." Seemingly conflating legal gun sales with crime and violence.

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 12:57:20 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     6) What's even more telling of the lawmakers' attitudes in California is this excerpt from the proposed legislation: "Existing law imposes various taxes, including taxes on the privilege of engaging in certain activities." It's obvious here that California intends to treat the 2nd Amendment like a privilege, to be taxed and taken away from those that are unworthy, or cannot afford it, instead of a constitutional right.

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 12:57:21 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     4) The bill itself calls for an excise tax of 10% on handguns and 11% on long guns, ammunition, or precursor parts. #California would then deposit the tax collected from the bill into a so-called Gun Violence Prevention, Healing, and Recovery Fund. These funds are cover for liberal states to tax gun owners and fund their opposition research, which in turn supports more gun control laws. It's like an authoritarian Uroboros.

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     5) Interestingly, a similar bill, AB-1223, was introduced by the same author, California state legislator Marc Levine, but failed to pass in February. This is another attempt to pass a failed gun tax by gutting and amending a solar roofing bill.

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 12:57:22 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     3) A California bill regarding roof replacement building standards was just amended to completely change it into a gun and ammo tax that would take effect immediately.

     https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml

     https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1522603415423102978

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 12:59:20 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     At this point, everyone with the ability is leaving the city, whether we want to or not. Sure, Chicago has great stuff! But now this great stuff is in headlines about violence. https://twitter.com/emzanotti/status/1525869391430164480

     #chicago
     #GunViolence
     #liberalUtopia
     #DemocratPolicies

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 12:59:20 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     1/2) California never misses a chance to make a problem worse. In the midst of a drought, the regulators have just killed a desalination plant because it will "destroy marine life in about 100 billion gallons of seawater per year."
     In fact, it would only kill the microscopic marine life in a whopping 0.00005% of the Pacific Ocean, but in CA, feelz outweigh factz every time ...

     #california
     #democratsUtopia
     #liberalUtopia
     #DemocratPolicies

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 12:59:21 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Rules Calif.'s Ban on Semi-Automatic Weapons Sales to Those Under 21 Unconstitutional

     https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2022/05/12/the-9th-circuit-court-of-appeals-rules-calif-s-ban-on-semi-automatic-weapons-sales-to-those-under-21-unconstitutional-n563399

     https://twitter.com/RedState/status/1524660744326897665

     #california
     #GunBan
     #GunControl

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 12:59:22 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     America has to choose capital accumulation or capital destruction. https://twitter.com/jeffdeist/status/1524364828936224769

     #DemocratUtopia
     #DemocratPolicies

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 12:59:23 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     CA SB 931 would make it possible to fine a public employer $1,000 for every employee told abt their union membership rights, up to $100,000.

     This will cause employers to be wary of communicating w/ their employees abt their rights not to join a union.
     https://www.freedomfoundation.com/california/foundation-comments-on-anti-janus-legislation-in-california/
     https://twitter.com/FreedomFdtn/status/1524073530542993409

     #california
     #UnionDues

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 12:59:23 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     Gavin Newsom spends more time complaining about Texas and Florida than he does fixing #California. https://twitter.com/CARebelBase/status/1523742261720141825

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 12:59:24 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     8) While the insanity of the situation can almost be humorous, gun owners should look at #California not as a bubble but as an example of what can happen when one party controls a state. Don't forget, California was a Republican stronghold state until the 90s but now serves as a template and testing ground for gun control policy nationwide. /end/
     https://www.zerohedge.com/political/california-abruptly-changes-solar-roofing-bill-gun-tax

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 12:59:25 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     7) @AsmRodriguez52 @SenatorLeyva
     As my representatives in the CA legislature, I am requesting you oppose AB1227 (Levine) as it is yet another racist, classist attack on CA citizens’ access to our #2A Rights. I expect you to find ways to remove barriers to RIGHTS, not place them.
     https://twitter.com/Triggerology_FT/status/1522785080338354176

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 12:59:42 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     2/2) Soon it will be illegal to walk because you'll be destroying tiny insects with every step ...

     Sigh.

     w.
     https://www.reuters.com/world/us/california-regulator-rejects-plan-desalination-plant-2022-05-13/
     https://twitter.com/WEschenbach/status/1525977308108009472

     #california
     #democratsUtopia
     #liberalUtopia
     #DemocratPolicies

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 12:59:42 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     Californians likely to see water conservation mandates take effect in June https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/californians-likely-see-water-conservation-mandates-take-effect-june

     #california
     #democratsUtopia
     #liberalUtopia
     #DemocratPolicies