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In the June incident, Patricia McCloskey said, the couple was startled just before dinnertime when “300 to 500 people” entered the gated community where they live.
"[They said] that they were going to kill us," Patricia McCloskey told Hannity on Monday night. "They were going to come in there. They were going to burn down the house. They were going to be living in our house after I was dead, and they were pointing to different rooms and said, 'That’s going to be my bedroom and that’s going to be the living room and I’m going to be taking a shower in that room’.”"
https://www.foxnews.com/us/missouri-couple-who-defended-home-have-rifle-seized-during-police-search-report?fbclid=IwAR1CV-BQ3JikK_R3JOvsE9op2Ys7GhJHIfiIMbaexswhxrR4yVkQWmK44qU
This is a bad thing.
I can’t imagine what the cops are thinking.
I can’t imagine what the cops are thinking.
I'd love to know the details. Given the glaring lack of muzzle and trigger discipline displayed, a mandatory gun safety class before returning the firearms would be reasonable. Within a city like that, literally ANY direction a bullet is fired has a significant risk of hitting an innocent bystander, even inside their house or a mile away completely uninvolved or even aware of the protestors breaking in to this community.
Automan Empire saysI'd love to know the details. Given the glaring lack of muzzle and trigger discipline displayed, a mandatory gun safety class before returning the firearms would be reasonable. Within a city like that, literally ANY direction a bullet is fired has a significant risk of hitting an innocent bystander, even inside their house or a mile away completely uninvolved or even aware of the protestors breaking in to this community.
There is no damages to anyone. You can't be prosecuted for hypothetical scenarios and what ifs. There is no law against poor trigger discipline. In fact, trigger discipline wasn't even a thing until 1970s, IIRC.
I'd love to know the details. Given the glaring lack of muzzle and trigger discipline displayed, a mandatory gun safety class before returning the firearms would be reasonable. Within a city like that, literally ANY direction a bullet is fired has a significant risk of hitting an innocent bystander, even inside their house or a mile away completely uninvolved or even aware of the protestors breaking in to this community.
Just as BLM prodigiously burns support and credibility by calling every arrest wrong and racist no matter how egregious the criminal's actions leading to it, or feminists burn the same by doubling down on "evil patriarchy" when innocent men are falsely accused of wrongdoing, so too do gun owners harm their credibility by lumping every edge case like this under the banner of "liberals trying to tear down 2a" with no regard for the specifics of the case even when the person clearly violated the most basic principles of gun safety to get the authorities on their case.
By same logic all BLM supporters should be in jail
Fortwaynemobile saysBy same logic all BLM supporters should be in jail
I agree, but trying to whataboutism your way out of even addressing their stupid behavior is exactly the problem I am trying to point out to you and you just blew right by it like nothing.
edge case like this under the banner of "liberals trying to tear down 2a"
their stupid behavior
In a letter to Attorney General Bill Barr, Hawley called for a federal civil rights probe into St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s investigation into the McCloskey family for using firearms to defend themselves and their property against protesters.
“This is an unacceptable abuse of power and threat to the Second Amendment and I urge you to consider a federal civil rights investigation into the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office to determine whether this investigation and impending prosecution violates this family’s constitutional rights,” Hawley wrote to Barr on Thursday.
“There is no question under Missouri law that the McCloskeys had the right to own and use their firearms to protect themselves from threatened violence, and that any criminal prosecution for these actions is legally unsound,” Hawley continued. “The only possible motivation for the investigation, then, is a politically motivated attempt to punish this family for exercising their Second Amendment rights.”
“300 to 500 people” entered the gated community
A St. Louis attorney who famously defended his home from Black Lives Matter protesters who broke into his neighborhood announced his bid for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, telling "Tucker Carlson Tonight" he will defend Missourians the same way he defended his wife and family.
Mark McCloskey, who alongside wife Patricia, was pictured last year wielding a rifle and a handgun respectively when Black Lives Matter demonstrators ingressed toward their property, told host Tucker Carlson that the confrontation may have been a message in itself.
"[They said] that they were going to kill us," Patricia McCloskey told Hannity on Monday night. "They were going to come in there. They were going to burn down the house. They were going to be living in our house after I was dead, and they were pointing to different rooms and said, 'That’s going to be my bedroom and that’s going to be the living room and I’m going to be taking a shower in that room’.”"
https://www.foxnews.com/us/missouri-couple-who-defended-home-have-rifle-seized-during-police-search-report?fbclid=IwAR1CV-BQ3JikK_R3JOvsE9op2Ys7GhJHIfiIMbaexswhxrR4yVkQWmK44qU