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.
  • cbarrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    4 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·
      4 months ago

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