Alyssa Milano was on the receiving end of social media backlash on Tuesday after she issued the comparison between mask-wearing and AR-15 rifles. "Anti-maskers are the same people who think they need an AR-15 for 'protection,'" the actress-turned-activist tweeted on Tuesday, adding, "LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK: A MASK WILL PROTECT YOU *MORE* THAN AN AR-15 WILL." For her stance, the former "Charmed" star was immediately lambasted by responders who felt drawing a parallel of the two isn’t mutually exclusive as firearms are typically used to ward off other types of attacks that wearing a face-covering can’t thwart and vice versa – guns cannot protect one against contracting the novel illness.
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