JORGE RAMOS: But as we were saying before going to commercial, something’s going on. Because in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, people’s fears are reflected in different ways.
MARIA ANTONIETA COLLINS: Well yeah, some buy hygiene products, toilet paper. Others are buying...can you believe it? Guns, firearms, ammunition.
RAMOS: The issue is that firearm sales have skyrocketed across the nation. The website animo.com… ammo.com- is reporting that their sales increased by more than 220% over the past three weeks.
COLLINS: But what does that have to do (with anything), right?
RAMOS: Is there some explanation? I know that we’re getting you into things that are beyond your specialty, but…
DR. JUAN RIVERA: I was telling you...I was telling you off-camera that I’ve come to think that the correlation between any natural disaster and buying guns is always a direct relation. It's a hurricane- they buy guns. It’s an earthquake- they buy guns. A pandemic, they buy guns. In other words, I personally can’t see anything particular from the pandemic and buying guns except that the Americans, every time that something happens, feel that there is going to be an apocalypse.
