20 year old Shooter = Registered rural PA Republican gun nut
2021 ActBlue Progressive donor = 69 year old urban Pennsylvanian w/ same first & last name, now confirmed
Different men. Logical conclusion. 17 year olds are not spending petty cash in get-out-the-vote efforts.
Game over, dudes. GOP youth tried to kill his party's nominee, because he thought life is just some reality show—a consequence of the Trump era. MAGA are the real sufferers of a derangement syndrome.
If only you people actually cared about children and pushed for armed security, there wouldn’t be any shootings. But no, you’d rather hand them over to criminals on a silver platter just to make a point.
Who is it that's trying to make it easy for people to obtain guns? Oh right, I remember now, the same people who keep sabotaging any methods we try to implement to keep guns out of the wrong hands.
I'll never forget how the NRA Sabotaged a deal between Smith & Wesson and the government to make guns safer after Columbine. S&W developed a whole bunch of measures that they could implement to make their products safer but the NRA wasn't having it.
They were doing what all good corporations should, holding themselves accountable and making sure that anyone who isn't supposed to own or use their products can't, y'know, own or use their products. After a deal was announced, to make 'smart guns' the NRA released a statement calling Smith & Wesson "the first gun maker to run up the white flag of surrender" After framing the company as the Ultimate Enemy to Freedom and Liberty and Stuff, the NRA then released the phone number of S&W's CEO, Eric Shultz, and told their members to make their voices heard. And so they did, via death threats, which forced Shultz and other executives to update their wardrobes to include more garments of the "bulletproof" variety.
Alongside that, the NRA organized a boycott that gutted the company's sales, forced two factories to close (causing mass layoffs), and wiped out 95 percent of S&W's value. Shultz and his executives were forced to resign their posts, and the only thing that saved the company from total ruin was, uh ... the NRA. Or, to put it another way, the new CEO of S&W tearing up the agreement and kissing the NRA's ring until they were forgiven for their unspeakable crime of believing that they were operating in a free market.
Guns in America are already difficult to obtain, not to mention the efforts to nerf them. It sounds like the NRA prevented both from getting worse, though I’d like to see receipts for these alleged “death threats”.
You people should know by now: draconian gun laws don’t work, gun-free zones don’t work. Criminals don’t care about laws, and un-armed citizens are their favorite prey. It doesn’t matter how many laws you dump on people if shady vendors and future-shooters ignore them. Even if you ban guns altogether, criminals will just find other ways to kill people, all you’re doing is making it harder for innocent civilians to defend themselves.
I've probably said this a dozen times in the last 24 hours, but the usual hivemind liberals on this site just see it as only one way and that he was a registered Republican, so go figure.. After awhile, you can continue to argue with these morons who will vote for Biden in the end or put them on ignore 🤔