Oddly, industry, until recently, tended to be concentrated in industrialized urban areas, the very areas that now are the most anti 2A. E.g., Winchester and Marlin in New Haven, Colt in Hartford, Smith & Wesson in Springfield, Sharps in Bridgeport & Hartford, etc.
Yes, and know that those industrialized urban areas in those states (Ct, NY, MA, NJ, VT, NH, etc) no longer exist.
None of the new buildings being built there have shipping docks, the only "industry" left are a few defense industry companies, but they are bailing out too.
Visit any former industrial city/town in CT and you'll see empty/falling down factories and former working class housing falling down in dis-repair.
Those hold-ons left owning those 3 family homes cannot get any renters and are forced to offer their apartments as section 8 housing to pay the mortgage.
The state buys up those old 3 family working class houses/former industrial mogul's big opulent homes, and add fire escapes, put a big diesel generator in the back yard, send $$$ of state funds to remodel them.
Turning them into "group homes"/housing for the underprivileged citizens of CT.
Then they move those underprivileged into these new group homes, taking them out of their big city element, away from family and friends.
They can be seen walking the streets around their new home, bored, unemployed, and looking for um...opportunity.
Sad, every time I go back to CT. and see the decline.
To be fair, there is growth there, just not in the former industrial areas.
Those areas have become bedroom towns for commuters to the big cities.
Northwest CT is becoming weekend places for NY'ers who are trying to change everything there.
I left in 1994 (after governor Lowell Wiecker) who passed the state income tax among other things.
A former REP Senator (Watergate) who ran/was elected Governor as an independent.
Wiecker was a one term Gov. with the objective of screwing the CT voters who elected Lieberman to his Senate seat, putting him out of the "elected for life" club.
The CT. legislation passed anything proposed because nothing bad could be blamed on either party because of the independent Gov...a perfect storm.
sorry for the rant/vent, I'll probably be back and delete most of it.
jmo,