If it wasn't for this and th cost of houses, I'd still be there.

I still miss Highway 1 between SF and Monterey and motorcycling in Skyline Drive.

So much fear.....I'd hate to be that guy but - ok I will be. The boy scout shooting competency badge was a great idea. The whole gun fear mentality is a knowledge based state of mind. Its like hating homosexuals without ever meeting one. The only time guns come up in the media is when crimes are committed, or somebody kills themselves. There is little to no mention of the "heroes" who save themselves and a group of customers in a store from an armed robber, or the superhuman feats of accuracy at the CMP nationals, or how an informed youth took a gun away from an unknowing youth who found it in a trashcan - unloading and securing the firearm because they had firearms safety instruction. The gun fear wants firearms only in the hands of those who are there to protect us. In a dangerous situation seconds count and anyone who has called 911 knows you have hundreds of seconds available before your protection arrives. Right now I get solace from the fact that there are more law abiding citizens who own firearms, than there are criminals with illegal firearms. If only the protectors have firearms, we need to make sure there are more protectors than criminals - not likely.