MIAMI (AFP) - Police in Florida have arrested a man who threatened to go on a shooting rampage in his local supermarket because he thought too few shoppers were wearing protective masks against the coronavirus.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MIAMI - Police in Florida have arrested a man who threatened to go on a shooting rampage in his local supermarket because he thought too few shoppers were wearing protective masks against the coronavirus.
"Will it take shooting a few of you selfish a-holes in the parking lot to get the message through?" Kovner was reported to have posted on social media.Police in Sebring, some 135km south of Orlando, said that"these are stressful times, but there is no excuse for making threats like this." Florida has some of the laxest gun laws in the United States, a country rife with mass shootings and where the right to possess guns is guaranteed by the constitution.
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