My brother was a National Rifle Association member. Back then in the 50s & 60s when FDR’s “New Deal” hadn’t yet been destroyed by Reagan, America really was great for middle class White people. “The American Rifleman” was entirely about shooting & reloading shells. We both hunted. It was pheasants for me. My nose got too itchy to hunt deer.
My hunting days ended when Nixon got rid Pennsylvania of pheasants:
A reflection on the lasting legacy of 1970s USDA Secretary Earl Butz
Scorched Earth
Yet the food-production machine Butz created kept cranking. Surviving farms responded to low prices by planting more, hoping to make up on volume what they were losing on price. Failed farms got folded into larger operations at cut-rate prices. Throughout the Grain Belt, abandoned farmhouses were burned to the ground, cleared, and incorporated into ever-larger corn and soy fields. (For a blunt account of the farm-crisis period, see Osha Gray Davidson’s 1996 classic Broken Heartland: The Rise of America’s Rural Ghetto.)
I’m rambling. This is more to the point of this post:
My Coatesville Ward 4-2 Precinct 110 is majority Democratic.
EVERYONE WHO WALKS A DOG THAT I KNOW CARRIES.
THERE’S A GUN IN NEARLY EVERY HOME.
Of course Kamala Harris carries. Every prosecutor & criminal defense attorney I know carries a gun.
David Pakman Show
FROM 2013:
I called Nate Bookman’s barber shop. His son answered. He immediately knew who the kids on bikes “wilding” were. He talked to the women caring for them.
Monday, April 8, 2013
With their partially developed brains teenagers are normally reckless.
This isn't Philly.
Black kids in Coatesville wilding in neighborhoods at times when everyone is at home watching TV is more dangerous than they think.
A few weeks ago 4 kids on bikes were riding on our block on Stirling Street. A person visiting my neighbor was outside. She heard glass breaking down the street. Then they reportedly rode by my house and then turned back. The person visiting my neighbor heard one kid say, "I'll show you how it's done." He rode his bike up our steps and allegedly kicked our door. He broke the glass 4 feet up on our outer front door. It caused several hundred dollars damage.
Officer Antonucci responded. The kids looked between 12 and 14 years old. It was 9:03 pm. It was too dark to see faces.
I know some people try to equate the City of Coatesville with the City of Philadelphia but Coatesville's just a small rural Pennsylvania village. Everybody knows everybody. You can find out anything you want at a barbershop or hairdresser. I have leads on where the kids might live.
My wife and I were inside watching TV. We were startled by a loud bang at the front door. Four kids were still riding up and down the street when my wife and I went outside. They wore long length coats. I've heard that long coats are the latest thing for cool gang banger fashionistas. It was just after 9pm.
I don't believe one of them was the person in this article below. He is way too old.
I've heard that 3 store owners in downtown Coatesville had the glass in their doors kicked in. You can see a plexiglass replacement on one store door. A store owner had his expensive equipment inside broken up. Nothing stolen, just wrecked. Wilding.
The kids wilding in Coatesville are in more danger then they think. I live in what might be the most well armed neighborhood in Pennsylvania. I don't feel safe just knocking on some of my neighbor's doors in the daytime. I wouldn't even think of walking up to their door at night.
Like I said this isn't Philly. Older black people will tell you it was not safe to walk on a rural Chester County road. You're in prime danger of being run down. That hasn't changed at all.
Maybe you have heard "Pennsylvania is Philly and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between". Coatesville is in the Alabama part. You will find white supremacists all around Chester, Lancaster and Berks Counties. Some are in Coatesville. A few of them are active white supremacists. The number of white supremacists who are active seems to be growing.
My son would ride miles from home on his bike when we lived in Trappe, PA. His friend was the son of the chief of police and they still got in trouble. The funny thing is one of my boyhood buddies was the son of the Coatesville Chief of Police. Once they have wheels it's hard for parents to know where they are.
It's still cold outside. I'm worried about this summer.
SEE:
Coatesville police investigate assault complaint
April 6, 2013 |
Posted by James Pitcherella at 9:00 AM
My brother, my dad who has passed & me think automatics aren't reliable enough if you actually need to defend yourself. All the guns the Pitcherella family carried & were in the store were revolvers, a technology that began in 1872 with the Colt 45.
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James A. Pitcherella at his crane. Lukens Steel Company |
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My brother Joe Pitcherella on a bonefishing trip on the flats Belize. |
Kamala's Glock actually made The New York Times:
"Along with Ms. Harris’s recent discussion of her gun ownership, her campaign has embraced aspects of American culture and expressions of patriotism typically thought to be more closely associated with Republicans. Over the summer, her official campaign store sold — and quickly sold out of — a camouflage hat, and at the Democratic National Convention in August, supporters waved American flags and chanted “U.S.A.!”
Her line on guns has not always landed. Ms. Harris has faced criticism from the conservative news media for owning a pistol despite supporting a handgun ban as district attorney in San Francisco.
But as a Democratic woman who says she supports both owning guns and placing limits on them, the presidential contender has given voters plenty to decode.
And in Glock, she has settled on a symbol."
MORE AT:
The New York Times
The Many Meanings of Kamala Harris’s Glock
In a “60 Minutes” interview this week, the vice president shared the kind of gun she owns. Its associations with law enforcement and pop culture make it a potent symbol.
Oct. 9, 2024
Trump is a fatal virus infecting the Republican Party. Trump doesn’t pay for political ads. Trump gets advertising dollars for media & media gives him free air time. Convict Trump sucks up almost all resources normally used by Republican candidates for himself to pay his lawyers. Because Trump is running from prison, not for president.
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