have you seen articles contrasting what is considered an essential shop that doesn't need to close during a lockdown

in France - chocolatiers
in Australia and UK - off licences (liquor stores)
in the US - gun shops

With photos of people armed with automatic weapons and Nazi signs rioting and protesting with The Presidents encouragement; with video & stills of queues outside gun-shops being longer than those at supermarkets; with the Internet; with tourist and bystander vid-cams; with Police and Government footage; with articles/posts/memes threatening their fellow citizens with death and violence...there are no typos.

The threat of all those gun-toting KKK members, and NRA members, and ordinary - but uneducated - citizens, and people with mental illness who should be incarcerated, and teenagers, (and CHILDREN!!) free to roam at will in the population with enouch firepower to wipe out multiple numbers of those they don't regard as "one of us" America had already attracted the title of the most violent, dangerous country in the developed world, even before the Covid pandemic.

The whole world (as well as the majority of the American population) has been expecting, predicting, worrying about the civil unrest that is only kept marginally under control in the USA - at the cost of a "Free" country being held to ransom by armed lunatics. It's the only "democratic" country in the world where the rights of armed, (potential) killers are given precedence over the right to live free from the daily threat - in schools, churches, universities, nightclubs,nursery schools pic-nic spaces, the highways, one's own home or doorstep. Under such governance there is every chance, each day, - that today will be the day one, or ones' children, one's entire family will be randomly, senselessly be killed?. The violent, the immoral, the evil are protected from the top down.

The innocent, the law-abiding, the peaceful, the good, have been left unprotected - and with no Rights to Life - in a country where fear of death is considered to be a negligable price to pay for the privilege of not letting groups which are dedicated to murder and mayhem and their own way, - banned in every truly FREE country in the world - from inciting the whole country to civil war. When even the President is among those encouraging violence, threat and death what chance is there that there WON'T be a rising up of civil unrest, disobedience and murder... of those who manage to survive the Virus the rest of the world is working together desperately to fight?

It's been sanctioned.

Oscar,

not to worry mate - I've never come across anyone, including my own American friends, who comprehend it either!

It's not rocket science: give a whole lot of uneducated morons, mentally ill, and vicious people the same weapons with which wars are fought, glorify slaughter and invasion, equate violence with power, tell people who terrorise and threaten their fellow countryment that they are "Good people"...and then stand in line with all the "shithole countries" where Freedom is a hollow concept, and see who's left standing when all the bombs & bullets run out.

Perhaps all the idiots who are stockpiling guns need them in order to protect their toilet paper.