Channel 5 did a small segment and even got an interview with the Blue hat lady in the background.
The town is pretty much what you'd expect for a place trump choose to have a rally. But it was a good insight into how these people think.
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The rally was in Butler, a deep red town in the next county north of Pittsburgh.
The shooter was from Bethel Park, closer to and on the other side of Pittsburgh. There's a subway line from Bethel Park to downtown Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh itself is very blue. I'd call Bethel Park purple. It's definitely more suburban than rural.
Bethel Park is pretty much old suburbs too. Not the old farms turned mcmansions like surrounding boroughs have done in recent years.
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I think it will result in an increase in gun sales, like all the other times gun restrictions were being pushed by the government (and other lackeys of the owner class).
Second Amendment
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Advocates for tighter gun restrictions in Pennsylvania seized on the shooting to urge state lawmakers to pass bills already introduced into the state legislature that would expand background checks, temporarily remove guns from potentially dangerous people and raise the minimum age to purchase rifles similar to the one used in the attack to 21 from 18.
I don’t have one, but I sure am considering it.
With the rise in fascism, being armed is being safe. Just make sure you practice with it and safely store it.
Why do you think this, fascism has never been defeated by armed popular uprisings. Even in the best case of the Spanish civil war where the workers were armed by the Republic, combined with the remnants of the Republican regular army and the Republican state capacity, they still lost to the fascists.
That was in early twentieth century Spain with a very small liberal middle class and huge swaths of deprived poor industrial and rural workers which faced even more deprivation under a fascist regime making them actually willing to fight. The vast majority of Americans, like the middle class in Germany, would go along with fascism if it meant they got to keep the material comfort they've accrued, which it probably will if it plans to succeed. Also civil war Spain had a massive labor and communist movement to organize the workers while America is completely atomized and hostile to any left organizing. Maybe 10% of Americans would rise up if the fascists started the purges, and that amount of untrained, unorganized armed mass can easily be defeated by the army.
It’s not for them, it’s for myself.
temporarily remove guns from potentially dangerous people
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