More news regarding the McCloskeys of St. Louis.

Remember that the mob broke down the locked wrought iron gate to their gated community and down a private drive that was marked as a private street with a no trespassing sign.

The McCloskeys claim that the protesters threatened them.

“One fellow standing right in front of me pulled out two pistol magazines, clicked them together and said you’re next. That was the first death threat we got that night,” Mark McCloskey said.

The mob was estimated to be about 500 people, so the McCloskeys were outnumbered roughly 250 to 1.

Given what other mobs have done, not just in other cities but in St. Louis too, I will give the McCloskeys the benefit of the doubt that they were right to bear arms to protect themselves.

One “recovering libertarian” with the Niskanen Center saw this and decided that citizens exercising their Second Amendment right to protect themselves was too much.

He’d like to think that he would be a tough guy because he knows that he’s not a tough guy.  He’s a God-damned, yellow-bellied, dickless, chicken-shit, fucking coward.

But lets for one-second humor him and pretend his fantasy is real.  The second he charged up the McCloskey’s lawn at them with murderous intent, he absolutely justified one or both of the McCloskeys dumping several rounds into him.

This piece of shit, in his bluster, doesn’t’ realize he completely justified the McCloskeys’ actions on Sunday.

The mob and their supporters want you disarmed and submissive.  If you refuse, they absolutely want to kill you for it.

From CBS News:

Los Angeles County closes beaches for July 4 weekend, citing coronavirus risk

Beaches in Los Angeles County will be closed over July 4 weekend to prevent “dangerous crowding that results in the spread of deadly COVID-19,” the county’s public health department said in a Monday statement. Fireworks will also be prohibited, the county said.

The closure begins just after midnight on July 3, and ends July 6 at 5:00 a.m., the department said. It applies to all public beaches, piers, public beach parking lots, beach bike paths that cross sanded parts of the beach and beach access points.

July 4th.  Independence Day.  And the government shuts down the beaches and all public gathering places near the beach.

Anyone who violates the rule can be fined up to $1,000.

On Independence Day.  For using a public beach.

I don’t see this going over well at all.  It might be time for just a little bit of the ol’ “sic semper tyrannis” thing.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Couple points guns at protesters marching to St. Louis mayor’s home to demand resignation

“Private property!” Mark McCloskey shouted repeatedly at the crowd, as he held a rifle. “Get out! Private property, get out!” Patricia McCloskey pointed a small handgun.

To access Portland Place, the crowd entered through an iron pedestrian gate. The McCloskeys told police the protesters broke the gate to get in.

St. Louis police said the couple had called police for help once they saw the large crowd enter Portland Place. The McCloskeys had been at home and heard a loud commotion coming from the street; they went to investigate and saw “a large group of subjects forcefully break an iron gate marked with ‘No Trespassing’ and ‘Private Street’ signs,” police said.

“The group began yelling obscenities and threats of harm to both victims,” police said. “When the victims observed multiple subjects who were armed, they then armed themselves and contacted police.”

Here is the good news:

Anders Walker, a constitutional law professor at St. Louis University, said that although it’s “very dangerous” to engage protesters with guns, the homeowners broke no laws by brandishing or pointing weapons at them because Portland Place is a private street. He said they are legally protected by Missouri’s Castle Doctrine, which allows people to use deadly force to defend private property.

“The protesters thought they had a right to protest,” Walker said. “But as a technical matter, they were not allowed to be there … It’s essentially a private estate. If anyone was violating the law, it was the protesters.”

Ultimately this might go before a judge, and we know how political they’ve gotten.  But for now it seems like they have a very solid case for their actions being legal.

Let’s hope the rule of law still applies.

Miguel did a follow up to my post about the couple that stood defense of their property from trespassers.

While I complete and totally support training for firearms owners, this is exactly why I abhorre the idea of mandatory training for firearms ownership.

Some of the comments I saw said that it looked like neither of them had actually used either gun before.

That may be true.

We have no idea how long they owned these guns.  They very well may have been emergency purchasers following the riots less than a month ago.

Putting up roadblocks to gun ownership only harms those who need guns now.

The woman who was threatened by an ex should get training, but it’s more important that she has a gun right the fuck right now to defend herself than after she takes a class next week or next month after she’s been murdered.

Perfection is the enemy of good enough.

We should encourage training.

We should not be condescending and mean to people who for all we know have been gun owners for a handful of days or weeks because their eyes were open to the reality of “you are on your own” since last month.

If you are just concern trolling, please jam you opinion wrist feel up your asshole.

If you are really concerned, find someone who is a new panic buyer and offer to train them for free.

What you shouldn’t do is be “that guy” because you’ve spent years practicing for this moment and they haven’t.   The point is to encourage more law abiding gun ownership and self reliance.  Not shit on people for not looking like a professional fireteam.

I have been curious about knowing if I am the member of the Wuhan V Club and now that the antibody test is available and free in drive-thru places in South Florida, I was ready to take ah hour or two listening to music in my truck waiting for the test.

But with the assholes in the Media using easy-accessible-for-all tests and the obvious raise in positive cases (yet deaths remain low) I figured fuck them if my stats are going to become fodder for their hatchet job.

Then again, the Wuhan V crisis will disappear come November 4, right?

You guys may remember my old posts about building the Personal First Aid Kit/Oh Sh**! Pack for heavy loss of blood. One of the items was tourniquets, (and scissors and Israeli bandage) that I buy from Recon Medical and I am in their mailing list.

They have come up with their version of the bag and a nice one: Recon Medical Bleed Kit. 

Recon Medical Pack -Includes Recon Medical GEN 3 Black Tourniquet Kevlar, Titanium Trauma Shears, Trauma Bandage, Compressed Gauze, Emergency Blanket, Carbon Pencil. First Aid Tactical SWAT Medic Pre-Hospital Life Saving Hemorrhage Control.

At $27.97 is not a bad price, specially if you do not want to waste time collecting items from other sellers and consolidating into a bag on your own. Plus again, with Christmas approaching (OK a bit early), they make for a great gift.

And no, I am not getting paid in cash or products or anything to push this. I like what they sell and have their stuff as life-saving devices for me and the missus.