An Empty Habitual Threat

An Empty Habitual Threat

About guns at the pro-plague rallies:

You can’t shoot the virus, and no-one worth shooting would be in range; so those guns prove only that they have only guns.

In theory that’s a threat of insurrection; but the trouble with insurrection during a plague is that you can’t riot without a mob; and a mob can’t do social distancing; and a sick mob can’t riot.

So the guns are an empty threat, done out of habit.