Texas: Armed Militia Help Businesses Defy Lockdowns

[Axtremus]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/us/coronavirus-businesses-lockdown-guns.html

Article on armed militia in Texas helping various businesses (bars, tattoo parlors, etc) reopen in defiance of local COVID-19 lockdown orders.

“It’s not for looks,” Mr. Campbell [age 45, a military veteran with the group Freedom Fighters of Texas] said as he stood guard with a shotgun draped across his chest. “We’re willing to die.”

[jon-nyc]

Texas hit an all time high today on new cases.

These guys must be so proud.

[Copper]

I wonder, what is their goal.

[Jolly]

I think the armed militia thing is a bit silly, but quarantine fever has definitely hit.

[Doctor Phibes]

Some of these people haven't had a tattoo or piercing in 8 weeks.