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Protesters, many armed, gather at Pittsburgh city hall to rally against gun restrictions
TribLIVE ^ | Jan. 7, 2019 | uncredited

Posted on 01/07/2019 11:02:20 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog

Hundreds of protesters gathered Monday in Pittsburgh's Downtown to rally against proposed restrictions on guns and ammunition.

The bills would ban semi-automatic rifles and certain ammunition and firearms accessories within city limits.

The crowd carried signs, waived flags and had rifles slung across their shoulders. They chanted "USA" and "We will not comply" and cheered the police officers and other public safety officials monitoring the rally.

State Rep. Aaron Bernstine, R-Ellwood City, called the proposed gun legislation a "clear violation" of law by the mayor and "political stunts" by the District Attorney.

"Don't go after the Constitution," Bernstine said. "Go after the criminals."

Pittsburgh City Council introduced the ordinances last month in wake of a mass shooting on Oct. 27 at Squirrel Hill's Tree of Life synagogue, where 11 worshippers were killed.

The proposed ban drew immediate outcry from gun rights activists who contend the restrictions violate Pennsylvania law. State law prohibits municipalities from regulating firearms. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld the preemption in multiple cases, including a 10-year-old city ordinance that would require the reporting of lost or stolen handguns.

Pittsburgh police have never enforced the ordinance because of the preemption.

Justin Dillon, 32, of Erie organized the rally in front of the City-County Building. Dillon is the founder of the advocacy group Open Carry Pennsylvania. He said he expects as many as 1,000 people and many of them — including himself — would be legally armed.

"We're coming together to say that what they're trying to propose is not right," Dillon has said. "It's against the law."

(Excerpt) Read more at triblive.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; guns; pittsburgh; second
Pittsburgh's Democrat city government is attempting to use the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting to justify a gun grab.

It is not going to go down quietly.

1 posted on 01/07/2019 11:02:20 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

This year is starting off great!


2 posted on 01/07/2019 11:11:14 AM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Bravo to the 'hundreds' !

Pittsburgh's Democrat city government would be wise to ponder PA's favorite winter pastime.

3 posted on 01/07/2019 11:11:23 AM PST by tomkat
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Who’d a thought,,,

Good Job,

Send a Message!


4 posted on 01/07/2019 11:13:11 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Nor should it. Millions of our servicemen have died defending our rights and freedoms. The fact that one idiot killed 11 people in a synagogue does not usurp the deaths of millions of freedom defenders and the rights of our citizens.

A mass killing is what happens in a war for freedom or on 9-11, not what happens in Pittsburgh, etc.


5 posted on 01/07/2019 11:13:18 AM PST by apoliticalone (Political correctness should be defined as news media that exposes political corruption)
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To: Big Red Badger

“THIS IS WHAT
DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!”


6 posted on 01/07/2019 11:17:57 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Good, the fight back is continuing, it’s a never ending war for our freedoms.


7 posted on 01/07/2019 11:22:46 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Pittsburgh is a Democrap stronghold.

For the life of me, I don’t understand why!


8 posted on 01/07/2019 11:22:47 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim ( The following statement is false. The previous statement is true.)
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To: eCSMaster
Pittsburgh is a Democrap stronghold. For the life of me, I don’t understand why!

Unions. A hundred years ago the town was swarming with immigrants who worked in mills and mines. Working conditions were lousy, and frankly men like Carnegie and Frick were not very nice to work for on a day-to-day basis.

The Democrat Party, with it's pro-labor and New Deal policies, was seen as the savior of immigrants and "Da Workin' Man!" The Catholic Church chimed in, with Priests like Father James Cox and Msgr. Charles Owen Rice going openly political. They came pretty close to telling their flock that voting Republican was a sin.

That mantra that the Dems are "The Party of Da Workin' Man" got beaten into peoples' brains, and passed down from generation to generation. It's as much a part of the social fabric here as Da Black n' Gold, Iron City Beer and pierogi church suppers.


9 posted on 01/07/2019 11:28:57 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

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Remember the “Bonus Army?”

This will not end well for them.


10 posted on 01/07/2019 11:31:21 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Do you know what percent of Pittsburgh households are “union” today?

Hell, I used to work at J&L Eliza Blast Furnace. I was “union” but I got over it.

Today, I despise Democraps and all who support them.


11 posted on 01/07/2019 12:00:51 PM PST by FroggyTheGremlim ( The following statement is false. The previous statement is true.)
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To: editor-surveyor

If the bonus army had actually organized itself into a real Army, that is, had a command structure and enforced discipline it could have gone the other way.


12 posted on 01/07/2019 12:08:45 PM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong)
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To: tomkat

Being a lifelong resident of Western Pa, I can confidently tell anyone that gun control doesn’t go over in this neck of the woods. Down East maybe, but not here.


13 posted on 01/07/2019 12:14:18 PM PST by Clarancebeaks
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To: Buckeye McFrog

local gun control ordinances are illegal under Pennsylvania state law ...


14 posted on 01/07/2019 12:26:40 PM PST by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: catnipman

Also under the Pennsylvania constitution.


15 posted on 01/07/2019 1:12:37 PM PST by Daveinyork
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I had relatives in western PA who worked in the mills in Pittsburgh; relatives in east Ohio who worked in potteries & refractories. Like you said, their world was the Catholic Church, VFW, Eagles & Elks, P-TA, even ethnic groups like SNPJ. It was a stable, secure world of fixed & shared values.

But they were leery of unions, which meant closed shops, coerced dues, and union bosses who rode around in Cadillacs. Grandpa was a miner; he couldn’t stand John L. Lewis. But during the Depression, mine owners allowed laid off miners to dig their own coal to heat their homes.

All that is gone with the wind. Even the unions are ghosts of what they once were.


16 posted on 01/07/2019 1:19:18 PM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: Buckeye McFrog

From Pennsylvania’s Constitution:

Section 21 The right to bear arms:

The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State shall not be questioned.


17 posted on 01/07/2019 1:19:20 PM PST by Daveinyork
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To: catnipman
local gun control ordinances are illegal under Pennsylvania state law …

The PA Supreme Court was stacked with Liberal activists in an off-year election. They ordered the re-gerrymandering of the state to flip a number of seats to Democrats last November. Liberals are betting that they will invent some way to make local gun control legal.


18 posted on 01/07/2019 2:07:17 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Pro-gun open carry protest events in Hartford CT did nothing to stop the passage of new anti-gun laws after Sandy Hook.


19 posted on 01/07/2019 4:09:52 PM PST by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane')
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Yellow Vest & Open Carry are a great mix.

Imprison the District Attorney because Gun Control KILLS!


20 posted on 01/07/2019 4:10:50 PM PST by TheNext (Participation Award Winner = CoC)
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