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The biggest being guns... Do you really need high-cap mags or fully auto weapons? Sure they are fun, but killing paper and bowling pins gets expensive. Shooting around here is not much fun either, as the closet ranges are indoors, but there are plenty of small towns and out of the way areas in California, where shooting off your back porch is just fine.

I bet another is taxes... What most don't realize, is that the paychecks are bigger too. Things equalize out here.

As for the latest. If you've never been here (L.A.), especially in the middle of summer you have never seen the crowds. Tossing footballs and Frisbees really is not the smartest thing to do. Not only can you hit a random person, you also can hit a random gang member and they get pissy over things like that and bad things happen. Also, the fact that the law was actually amended to allow tossing of things was the right thing to do - seeing how it used to be banned year-round.