Most won't go from "I wish nobody had guns" => "Screw it, I'm getting one, too" => "Gun rights FTW!!"
Ultimately, I doubt fear of imminent, transient threat can produce durable support for an abstract right.
But that wasn't the pitch. The pro-protest takes were offered up as "science" -- as public health intervention.
This charge will now stick. And you can be certain I will do my part to make it stick.