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“...they want to control the entire world...they were on the way to writing all future laws...All of the power, none of the responsibility.” [Zathras, post 9]

Californians have been doing it for some time.

In the 1960s, air pollution became a problem in southern California because so many people insisted on living there. They raised such a fuss that Congress passed pollution-control laws that forced the nation to comply - despite the relative lack of pollution problems everywhere else.

California developed major highway safety problems. Congress passed laws forcing auto makers to install safety gear, radically alter car designs, add pollution-control devices, and many other things. Lead was removed from gasoline. Nationwide, anyone buying an auto had to pay extra for this stuff - even though they lived where vehicle-caused air pollution didn’t exist, and traffic hazards were nil. Across the country, millions of vehicles were rendered inoperable overnight, because they could not run on unleaded gasoline (which cost more to boot).

Just after the turn of the present century, Californians passed sweeping gun-control laws, banning sale of many specific models of firearms. When these laws failed to reduce crime, they passed more laws. Ultimately, California required gunmakers, distributors, and gun dealers across the nation wishing to do business in the state were forced to register with the California Attorney General’s Office and obtain prior permission to sell guns, ammunition etc to dealers & citizens in the state. In essence, an entire parallel dealer-licensing system was created, to regulate commerce in guns.

A clear violation of federal law: not merely challenging federal supremacy in Constitutional law recognizing individual rights, but also laws regulating interstate commerce. Restraint of trade is not allowed.