Guns Are Woven Into the Life of Shooter’s Hometown
www.nytimes.com
The gunman who opened fire at a Trump rally grew up in an area where hunting and target shooting have long been popular pastimes. Now, there’s new talk of gun regulation.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • cbarrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world
        7·
        2 months ago

        Bethel Park is pretty much old suburbs too. Not the old farms turned mcmansions like surrounding boroughs have done in recent years.