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California Billboards Don’t Tell the Whole Story
RealClear Politics ^ | 8/30/22 | Dr. John R. Lott

Posted on 08/30/2022 10:21:47 AM PDT by VictimsRightsPro2a

A lot of people are moving out of California. Over the last two years, California has lost about 300,000 people. Major companies, including Telsa, Oracle Corp, and HP have abandoned California for Texas. With high taxes, lots of regulations, high crime, poor schools, mishandling of the pandemic, and “woke” policies, it isn’t surprising that many people have been willing to give up the beautiful state and fantastic weather.

Understandably, some are upset with that turn of events, but the billboards put up in Los Angeles and San Francisco are a cheap shot. They warn Californians about mass public shootings in Texas, specifically pointing to the recent Uvalde school shooting. The billboards warn, “The Texas Miracle died in Uvalde.” They replace Texas’ slogan, “Don’t Mess With Texas,” with “Don’t Move to Texas.”

The billboards have received extensive national and international news coverage. But California, despite all its gun control laws, has more mass public shootings than Texas.

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1 posted on 08/30/2022 10:21:47 AM PDT by VictimsRightsPro2a
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

When the put up billboards like that it shows that they’ve lost the argument.


2 posted on 08/30/2022 10:23:16 AM PDT by Bayan
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To: Bayan

It’s a PR stunt the ruling class can giggle about while raising money for their next election.


3 posted on 08/30/2022 10:25:21 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. - tnlibertarian job offer letter)
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

Poor Greasy Gavin wants so badly to be a contender on the nationally stage but reality keeps intruding upon his fevered dreams.


4 posted on 08/30/2022 10:25:46 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

with CA’s new abortion tourism industry

they should add the number of babies murdered on their CA welcome signs

like McD’s use to count burgers served


5 posted on 08/30/2022 10:27:07 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

Moving companies add U-Hauls thriving!


6 posted on 08/30/2022 10:29:45 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

We agree with the billboards - do not come to Texas. Buncha crazy rednecks, we are.


7 posted on 08/30/2022 10:29:52 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a
They replace Texas’ slogan, “Don’t Mess With Texas,” with “Don’t Move to Texas.”

I would wager that these terms would be acceptable to your average Texan. Anyone coming from a hard left state to a free state is automatically suspect anyway.

8 posted on 08/30/2022 10:30:16 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: Don Corleone

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9 posted on 08/30/2022 10:30:26 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

what they lost was, 300,000 TAXPAYERS!!!

the wetbacks made up for the loss in new mouths to feed...


10 posted on 08/30/2022 10:36:18 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

So now they’ve gotten to the point of begging Californians not to move out (albeit in a sarcastic, deceptive way). If current trends continue, pretty soon the only ones that will be left in California will be the poor or indebted who can’t afford to leave, the old and entrenched who will stay out of stubbornness or lack of inertia, immigrants (legal and illegal) who feel it is still better than where they came from, or the rich and semi-rich who can live in their gated communities and pretend like everything’s just peachy-keen as long as they stay in their safe spaces.


11 posted on 08/30/2022 10:37:56 AM PDT by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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Their safe spaces won’t be safe for long. When the thugs run out of free stuff they will eventually turn to the rich and famous.


12 posted on 08/30/2022 10:46:54 AM PDT by McGavin999
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

They replace Texas’ slogan, “Don’t Mess With Texas,” with “Don’t Move to Texas.”

And Texans agree!


13 posted on 08/30/2022 10:47:07 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

CA Gov. Newsom and the billboard creators should not have far too look for their pot_v_kettle moment.

On 2 December 2015, at a ‘holiday party’ located at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, a married couple expressed their unhappiness by attacking the ~80 participants, killing 14 and wounding 22 at the party. After being pursued by police, they were killed after injuring a further 2 LEOs (Law Enforcement Officers).

In comparison, an odious but needed stat, the Uvalde School massacre of 24 May 2022, had a single assailant kill 21 and wounded 1 over the space of 77 minutes while almost 400 LEOs milled about under no command structure!

Both equally horrible in a massacre of innocence, so neither State should denigrate the other. Maybe California should seek something that they are actually good at, ... surely there is something, right?


14 posted on 08/30/2022 11:00:16 AM PDT by SES1066 (More & more it looks like Brandon's best decision was Kamala! UGH!)
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To: skeeter; All

Newsome is almost as stupid and clueless as Kamala.


15 posted on 08/30/2022 12:02:17 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

If the Texans involved in Uvalde had acted like Texans and not Californians there would be no issue to talk about.


17 posted on 08/30/2022 12:28:11 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

Lots of them are coming to TN


18 posted on 08/30/2022 1:49:36 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

Billboards today. Razor wire tomorrow.


19 posted on 08/30/2022 2:01:06 PM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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To: VictimsRightsPro2a

California = Mexico City


20 posted on 08/30/2022 3:00:07 PM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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