A 46-year-old man was fatally shot by a fellow campaign staffer while handing out flyers for a progressive political group in Philadelphia ahead of the city’s upcoming mayoral race. [More]
OnePA? Looks like they’re 0 for 2 on “common sense gun reforms” and black lives mattering.
Care to see what else they’re wrong on?
[Via Steve T]
And now, the rest of the story: https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/canvasser-shooting-eddie-brokenbough-onepa-20230509.html
(Note: This article was updated about 6 hours after FOX News published their version.)
It’s still mostly a fluff piece beatifying the tragic death of a father trying to make ends meet.
But read down (way, way down), and you learn that the now-deceased man brandished a firearm — which he was not licensed to carry, and in fact could not be licensed because of a past conviction for a violent felony — and the younger man fired his licensed firearm in self-defense.
You also learn that One PA has a policy prohibiting its canvassers from carrying firearms in their office or while canvassing.
One man ignored one prohibition, an action which saved his own life. The other ignored several prohibitions, resulting in his own death.
But sure, gun violence bad, sanctify criminal behavior, blame peaceable gun owners, blah blah blah.