Only in the United States can guns make their way to the center of a public health crisis.
was unintentionally shot and killed by his 19-year-old cousin, who brought the gun home to protect himself in the pandemic), the last thing people need is heavily armed protestors at state capitols demanding legislators somehow end the pandemic—as if any of us can control the virus. If you didn't think America had a gun problem before, allow the armed men in masks to prove otherwise.
Men carrying guns gather with hundreds of others at a"Hazardous Liberty! Defend the Constitution!" rally to protest the stay-at-home order in Washington on April 19, 2020."We know that the gun lobby works to sell guns in times of tragedy and natural disasters, and [the COVID-19 pandemic] is no different," Moms Demand Action Founder Shannon Watts tells.
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