Top: D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser stumped for presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg in Arlington on February 9, 2020.. Graham Vyse / DCist The Bloomberg gun safety bus tour was met by several hundred anti-gun control protesters, when they arrived at the new Bloomberg 2020 Campaign office.

The Bloomberg Campaign’s bus tour from Florida to Virginia wrapped up Sunday evening in Arlington, VA, a Democratic stronghold in the March 3 Super Tuesday state. Dozens of Bloomberg supporters — several from Mike’s 6 million strong Moms Demand Action — joined with Bloomberg endorser DC mayor Muriel Bowser to rally around the critical issue of gun safety.

The campaign was celebrating an official opening celebration for its new Arlington office at Pentagon Row after also touring Hampton Roads and Richmond. Bowser joined senior Bloomberg advisor Debbie Weir, as well as Calandrian Simpson Kemp and her husband George Kemp of Mike’s Superbowl ad against gun violence, who left on the bus tour from Orlando on Monday evening.

Waiting for the bus arrival in Arlington was a crowd of angry pro-gun rights protesters holding signs like “WE WILL NOT COMPLY.” “They waved the Stars and Stripes, hoisted the “DONT TREAD ON ME” Gadsden flag, and chanted Virginia’s state motto, “Sic semper tyrannis,” as an ominous warning to would-be tyrants,” writes The Dcist.

“When we got off the bus I thought we might be in the wrong place,” a smiling Bowser told at least a hundred people in the Bloomberg office a few minutes later, “because they told me Virginia is for lovers.”

“Bowser appears ready for the long fight — both for Bloomberg in 2020 and on the issue of gun violence. In fact, writes The DCist.

“Her prominence in Bloomberg’s campaign has raised the prospect that she could have a role in his presidential administration, perhaps even as vice president. But when DCist tried to gauge her interest, she fell back on a familiar refrain. “I have the best job in Washington, D.C. I’m the mayor of my hometown,” she said, before immediately ending the interview.”

By the end of the evening, several hundred protesters gathered at the new Arlington Bloomberg campaign office. Several protesters actually crashed the event and took over the podium before the sound-system drowned them out with “Praise You” by Fatboy Slim.

Mike Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety, last year outspent the previously feared National Rifle Association roughly 8 to 1 in Virginia. As a result, Bloomberg is credited with flipping the state legislature to Democratic control in November 2019.