Police seize rifle from St. Louis couple who defended their lives with it

[Dr.3D]

Evidently, you must have the appropriate gun for such circumstances. I don't remember reading that in the 2A.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07...arch-warrant-home-gun-toting-couple-st-louis/

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities executed a search warrant at the St. Louis mansion of a white couple whose armed defense of their home during a recent racial injustice protest drew widespread attention, their attorney confirmed Saturday.

Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who are personal injury lawyers, were caught on video brandishing guns as demonstrators walked past their Renaissance palazzo-style home on June 28 while headed to protest outside of the mayor's home nearby. The video showed Mark McCloskey, 61, wielding a long-barreled gun and Patricia McCloskey, 63 standing next to him waving a handgun.

Joel Schwartz, the couple's lawyer, said a search warrant was served Friday evening and that the gun Mark McCloskey was holding in the video was seized. Schwartz told The Associated Press that arrangements have been made to turn over to authorities on Saturday the gun that Patricia McCloskey had been holding, adding that her gun was inoperable at the time of the protest and still is.

The couple has not been charged, and Schwartz said charges against them would be “absolutely, positively unmerited.”

I think they mean that her pistol wasn't in working order at the time and still isn't.

 

[sparebulb]

Who would brandish an "inoperable" pistol?

The potential legal downside is the same as brandishing an operable one.

The potential real-world downside of a failed bluff would be death.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Who would brandish an "inoperable" pistol?

The potential legal downside is the same as brandishing an operable one.

The potential real-world downside of a failed bluff would be death.

Well, clearly, these folks are/were clueless about proper firearms use and tactics.

Doesn't make what is happening to them right.

 

[Anti Globalist]

Anyone who still think cops are good guys is delusional to the point of retardation.

Seriously. Little do people forget that they will be the ones that enforce gun confiscation.

 

[sparebulb]

Well, clearly, these folks are/were clueless about proper firearms use and tactics.

Doesn't make what is happening to them right.

Of course its not right.

 

[TheCount]

It's a three minute read, there it is, last paragraph:

A march passed by on the street.

MO is also a "Stand Your Ground" state, and in this case I can think of no better application of that law.

Stand what ground, exactly? They got their weapons and then went outside onto their lawn to confront the "mob" that was on the street walking past.



Wouldn't "stand your ground" be more applicable to the "mob" in this situation? If they had shot the couple when they brandished their weapons, who would have been at fault?

You will not be able to so much as touch an Anointed One, let alone defend yourself against a mob of Anointeds. Any such action will be deemed a felony racist hate crime.

You're the one anointing this couple who went onto their lawn, armed, to scream at passersby who were doing absolutely nothing except terrifying them with their existence.

Is it because they resemble you?

 

[bv3]

A march that broke into a gated community. Other homes have been burned down by the mob, they were not out-of-line thinking it could happen to theirs. These two are more your speed, politically, not resembling AF at all. Perhaps, just perhaps, he takes the principled approach.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

A march passed by on the street.




Stand what ground, exactly? They got their weapons and then went outside onto their lawn to confront the "mob" that was on the street walking past.



Wouldn't "stand your ground" be more applicable to the "mob" in this situation? If they had shot the couple when they brandished their weapons, who would have been at fault?




You're the one anointing this couple who went onto their lawn, armed, to scream at passersby who were doing absolutely nothing except terrifying them with their existence.

Is it because they resemble you?

The mob was trespassing, and had engaged in criminal break in and damage to property. They were also assholes.

 

[John-G]

Anyone who still think cops are good guys is delusional to the point of retardation.

Not all cops are like that and during a "pandemic" when people are losing their jobs left and right, I am afraid most good police will be forced to keep quiet in order to be allowed to keep their jobs

 

[jmdrake]

I'd rep you but...well...you know

I can't rep either one of you.

 

[phill4paul]

Your fellow progressives tore down the private property gate (pic below). McClosekey said when he told the mob they were on private property, then all started moving to his house in anger.

No lives lost and no one hurt. It's time for you extremists to man up and get a job. And I mean a job other than spreading marxism on RPF.

They should have been shot coming through the gate.

 

[TheCount]

Other homes have been burned down by the mob, they were not out-of-line thinking it could happen to theirs.

Homes were burned down by that mob?

 

[fedupinmo]

Never mind, it looks like a different property.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/USAB4L/status/1282439171622068224

 

[jmdrake]

Seriously. Little do people forget that they will be the ones that enforce gun confiscation.

I only disagree with the "will be" part of your comment. Do you mean "Have been?"\

 

[Origanalist]

I can't rep either one of you.

+ rep

 

[Origanalist]

They should have been shot coming through the gate.

At the very least they should have been met with armed homeowners. More than just one couple.

 

[Origanalist]

Not all cops are like that and during a "pandemic" when people are losing their jobs left and right, I am afraid most good police will be forced to keep quiet in order to be allowed to keep their jobs

Yes, all cops are like that. And all police will keep quiet in order to be allowed to keep their jobs. The truth is a very large portion of them couldn't care less and regard you as inferior.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Is it because they resemble you?

You're fucking right because they look like me.

The entire system is calling for my head on a pike, there is almost nobody in government, the media, the education establishment or law enforcement who is publicly willing to stand up and defend white people and western civilization against the Marxist slander and propaganda that is working up the street Bolshies into a genocidal killing rage.

There is nobody else, other than other white folks, who are going to say anything.

What, you think you're going to shame or scare me into silence by making veiled "Boo yer a racist" comments?

Yer barking up the wrong fucking tree pal.

That, and the fact that they are right.

Since when did "libertarians" advocate seizing people's property without being charged with a crime?

 

[PAF]

Since when did "libertarians" advocate seizing people's property without being charged with a crime?

Those are called "let's-pretend-we-are-republicans/libertarians".