Sean Penn: ‘This Virus Is the Active Shooter ... That Is Continuing to Kill’ People

EXCERPT:

BEHAR: "Sean, I agree with what you said, but you say that we’re in an active shooter scenario right now. What do you mean by that? Explain it."
PENN: "Well, I don’t think we need to attach a face, a personality or what somebody was sending on their social media to be able to identify an active shooter. An active shooter is anything that is continuing to -- to kill people and our brothers and sisters and fathers and daughters and sons. This is — this virus is the active shooter, and if we were — I think that if we could wrap our head around in that way and understand that it’s principally putting in the radical people of color, elderly people, indigenous people, but randomly selecting all of us, that we need to huddle around and -- and make very clear decisions on how to approach this thing. It’s not — I get concerned though I know, of course, there’s a necessity for people to be able to make a living. I get very concerned with the attitude is without caution or without respect of those dead, dying, the hospital workers and -- and -- and the science of this. This is a continuing problem, and it seems that there’s just too much distraction."