Dragon is completely right. I can't belive how much even MY generation doesn't care about politics or government. My wife even doesn't want to vote because she thinks it wouldn't matter either way. I keep telling her that elections are all won by adding up the 1 vote from each individual, so each individual vote DOES matter and DOES count.
My family has always been active in contactiong our state government when BS starts to go down. Sometimes you can really open thier eyes on things and things can be prevented or even changed.
Another way to really get thier attention is to send your state congressman (or woman) a small donation when they ruyn for re-election. If they stay in office, the next time you get on the phone to talk to them you can honestly say that you are a COTRIBUTING citizen, and believe you me, they'll REALLY listen to you then.
Dragonis also very right about CA and how they do things. On the state level, most of the voting power is gonna come from the large cities and in most large cities people are pretty ignorant and oblivious to allot of things, so thier points of view can be distorted way beyond reality. Because of that, stupid laws like the one mentioned get passed. And again like Dragon said, CA only brought it on themselves. I also agree that MO is a long way from anything like that happening here. We have too many people with too much common sense and a outdoor sports loving nature to let some crap like that happen any time soon. Maybe in the next 50 years or so we might have to worry.
Heck, I wouldn't even be suprised to see the federal government step in and say a bill like that was unconstitutional, just like they did to Arizona and thier illegal immigrant law. The bad thing is though, according to our constitution, the Federal government has absolutely NO right to do a thing like that, but hey, they've been trampling thier own laws for well over a hundred years, and nothing has stopped them yet.
