AB 1935 Protest Ideas

• Targeting key legislator's offices.
• Carrying signs with 4 or 5 key messages.
• Composing "Talking Points" for any that might be interviewed.
• Gettingstrategy committees put together in different regions of California.

C3, we're usually on the same page, but for once I find myself feeling the need to say...

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I don't like the derogatory implication of the comparison. It seems to me to imply that pot smoking is "bad" in some way. (E.g. "but THIS is OK?") I think we can compare the two politically and socially charged subject without dragging the other down.

I would equally disapprove of a marijuana decriminalization campaign switching the pictures to say, "why is harmless 'ol pot illegal but these gun nuts can go around flaunting their gun 'rights' in our faces?"

The simple fact is that both issues have the same root cause: government butting into to people's private lives and making crimes where there is no victim. Gun control and marijuana prohibition have a lot in common. Make criminals of otherwise peaceful people, infringe on basic human rights, and both have racist histories.

I sincerely hope CA will be the first state to decriminalize both guns and pot.

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C3, we're usually on the same page, but for once I find myself feeling the need to say...

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I don't like the derogatory implication of the comparison. It seems to me to imply that pot smoking is "bad" in some way. (E.g. "but THIS is OK?") I think we can compare the two politically and socially charged subject without dragging the other down.

I would equally disapprove of a marijuana decriminalization campaign switching the pictures to say, "why is harmless 'ol pot illegal but these gun nuts can go around flaunting their gun 'rights' in our faces?"

The simple fact is that both issues have the same root cause: government butting into to people's private lives and making crimes where there is no victim. Gun control and marijuana prohibition have a lot in common. Make criminals of otherwise peaceful people, infringe on basic human rights, and both have racist histories.

I sincerely hope CA will be the first state to decriminalize both guns and pot.

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I do believe that this is a part of a larger agenda to make people victims and more reliant on the “State” and its “Services”. To prove this I’m going to take inspiration from Lori herself and wear a Bullet Proof Vest everyday if AB 1934 passes and becomes law. Donning a vest intended to prevent punctures to my body is the ultimate in passive self-protection, it posses no threat to others around me, it can’t be loaded, it can’t be made into a weapon, it’s safe. And apparently Lori doesn’t see a problem with wearing one… but she will.

I declare here on this 22nd day of April 2010 that in an open carry/concealed carry banned California, legislators (maybe even Lori herself) will attempt to ban the Bullet Proof Vest Movement in California. Thousands of Californians will wear bullet proof vest to work, while shopping, at the grocery store, while picking up the kids from school, at the bank, at Starbucks, etc. After a year of activity by this movement and its members, lawmakers will site public unrest and police safety as the key reasons for banning the open display of bullet proof vests.

They’ll be quoted in newspaper and on TV. “I just don’t feel safe when I see someone walking around with a bullet proof vest on, this isn’t the wild west” one women says. Police Chief Snuffy says, ”Look, when my officers come onto a scene and they see a guy wearing a SWAT Team quality vest. They don’t know what he’s up to and Officer Safety is paramount” adding, “Furtive movements by a vest wearer could end in tragedy”.

Please join me in getting this non-aggressive, peaceful activity outlawed!

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