Mark and Patricia McCloskey. Fox News.
A St. Louis prosecutor has filed felony charges against a couple who defended their home with their firearms from a Black Lives Matter mob. Fox News. Mark and Patrica McCloskey have been charged with felony unlawful use of a weapon by the cities liberal Attorney General, Kim Gardner. The McCloskey's have said that they were simply defending themselves from an angry mob that broke down a gate and threatened them with violence. Missouri Governor Mike Parson has said recently that he would pardon the couple if charges were filed. Senator Josh Hawley has urged Attorney General Bill Barr to open an investigation into Kim Gardner for her actions in this case.
My Comment:
It's hard to overstate how angry this case makes me. The McCloskey's probably wouldn't even be alive today if they hadn't pull out those guns. They survived, all the rioters survived and that should have been the end of it. Well, actually every single person who entered the McCloskey's property should have been charged with trespassing but that's not going to happen.
Indeed, this kind of incident is supposed to be why people should own guns. The police were not responding to this incident at all and the only way that the McCloskey's had to protect their lives and property were the firearms they had. What else could they do when a racist mob breaks down a gate and floods into their property?
Even worse is that the McCloskey's have a built in defense. Under Missouri law, they were entitled to use lethal force against trespassers under the states castle doctrine. And even if they didn't they would have been entitled to fire on these people due to the threats they were making. If they were justified in using lethal force then they certainly were justified in brandishing their weapons.
So why on earth did Kim Gardner file these charges? It's either that she's completely anti-gun or because she is racist. If she's anti-gun than she just doesn't like the fact that these people owned firearms. Their actual behavior and justifications aren't really relevant to her.
But my guess is that Gardner is in fact racist. She saw white people pointing guns at black people and that can't happen in today's Black Lives Matter dominated society. Given that protests have erupted over completely justified police shootings, like the Rayshard Brooks case in Atlanta, that seems very likely.
A good way to tell if this was racist or not is to imagine the situation reverse. If a wealthy black couple had pulled guns on a bunch of KKK members who broke a gate to get to them and was making threats, would there be any doubt that the black couple would have gotten off? (And yes, I am comparing the KKK to BLM, they are a mirror to each other, both racist hate groups). It would be the right thing there to not file charges just like it would have been the right thing here to not file charges against a white couple.
The good news is that it looks like the McCloskey's are getting a pardon. If I was Governor Mike Parson I'd have it done by the end of the week but who knows if that is going to happen? Either way, he should spare the McCloskey's the trouble and cost of a trial. This is obviously prosecutor misconduct and it's his job as governor to fix it.
As for the rest of the response to this incident I am glad that some members of the GOP are talking about it. I know that President Donald Trump and Senator Josh Hawley are up in arms so that's something.
What is more concerning is that I haven't heard anything from any gun rights groups condemning this arrest. I checked the NRA's twitter feed and they haven't said a thing. Given that they are a major gun rights group it's insane to me that they haven't helped these people out. I am hoping that I just missed it, but what is the point of even having gun rights groups if they are not going to defend the gun rights of an American couple.
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