A proclamation went into effect in Stillwater, Oklahoma on Friday requiring that patrons of newly reopened stores and restaurants don masks while inside. Just hours later, Mayor Will Joyce was forced to revise the order amid a ferocious backlash.
Making threats including the use of a firearm? Were these people promptly arrested for these crimes?
If the “very good people” bullying restaurant employees weren’t risking spreading the virus to others I would say go for it and die like a good MAGA Martyr. You realizes these same assholes are going to sue the restaurants if they come down with Covid-19.
In Flint, Michigan, per local reports, police are investigating claims that a security guard at Dollar General was shot and killed over a dispute with a patron about wearing a mask.
Great. My hometown made the news. I don’t blame the mayor. He’s trying to do the right thing, but we’re in Oklahoma. Good portion of our citizens delight in being idiots and they have guns.
were they white?
Well a black man threatening someone with a firearm wouldn’t have gotten arrested either.
People carrying around guns to “protect” themselves but refuse to wear a mask to protect themselves and everyone else.
Makes one think the gun isn’t there for “protection”
It’s reading shit like this that makes me think it’s long LONG past time we brought the violence to these people and stopped our passive acceptance of them bringing it to us over and over and over.
The same thing happened more than a century ago to try to get people to wear masks during the Spanish Fly Pandemic.
Goddamn I hope these people are arrested.
I’m firmly convinced that that if Trump “wins,” the violence will be brought by our side.
Weird. I thought the official response to a threat (not counting idiot rednecks with assault rifles, of course) was to involve some sort of law enforcement. Not to give in.
I wonder what happens if I were to do such a thing at a bank?
Saint Reagan got some of the strictest gun laws passed after open carry Black Panthers would roll up on the Oakland PD to observe.
That being said I don’t condone violence unless it is necessary to thwart a putsch.
Things are upside down, now we are a country of men, and not of laws?? WTF??
“People were not going to accept the government telling them what to do.”
OK then. Pull up your speed limit and stop signs, allow folks to drink and drive all they like and let anyone that want to walk into your home and make themselves comfy. Those are all examples of the government telling you what to do.
How is the mayor doing the right thing by backing down to armed insurgents? If it’s his only choice to avoid riots, one might saying he’s doing what he has to do. But “the right thing?” The right thing is to stand by the proclamation and crack down on the insurgents.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (R) reversed his announcement that masks must be worn in stores a day after he made it on April 27.
“It became clear to me that that was just a bridge too far,” he said Sunday on ABC’s This Week. “People were not going to accept the government telling them what to do.”
“Unless they’re pregnant women,” he quickly added.
If our Founding Fathers had wanted us to wear masks, it would be in the Constitution.
