COVID-19 and gun violence.In the early weeks of the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S., Americans were sent into a panic. People were becoming ill.
Grocery stores were being left with empty shelves. Entire cities were being shut down. All of it, because there was an unknown fear hanging overhead.Hidden beneath that surface fear, was a growing desire to ensure safety no matter what.
That desire drove people — by the millions — to gun shops as they looked for a simple way to ward off any threats of something they could see and didn’t understand, experts suggest.
11-year-old boy shot, killed while getting his phone charger in D.C. “Ordinarily, this time of year is the low season of firearms sales,” says Jurgen Brauer, chief economist at Small.