Due to the latest gun laws signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, we as law-abiding citizens will either be forced to comply or to become criminals.

There is a third option.

We ought to break apart from California. We should be the 51st state of the United States. We as gun owners cherish our guns as we have a natural RIGHT to keep and bear arms. Because California no longer recognizes our rights, it becomes necessary to partition it. There have been numerous efforts to split California into different states but that did not work because Northern California would lose a lot of tax revenue. If Riverside County alone seceded from California, the state government wouldn't lose that much tax revenue relative to the large population centers of Los Angeles, San Diego, and the Bay Area. We as American citizens have a right to keep and bear arms and this is our only way to get those rights back. No more bullet buttons, no more fixed magazines, and no more registration.