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How Would It Have Ended If They Were Black?
An armed St. Louis couple just illustrated protestors’ point.
At first, it seems laughable. A white couple in front of a ridiculously large house, wearing ill-fitting outfits, and brandishing weapons they have no idea how to hold. All in the name of defending their lives and their opulent, palatial manor.
But their lives were never in danger. No one stepped a foot onto their perfectly manicured lawn. They certainly didn’t crash through the iron gates to the neighborhood, as the homeowners claim. The couple didn’t see an angry mob crash down a gate, get scared and run for their guns, as they claim. They didn’t grab guns to protect themselves after protestors threatened to burn down their house.
I have heard numerous comments in the last 24 hours about the rights of private property owners. There a whole lot of people willing to defend that couple’s right to stand in their front yard and point guns at people.
What I never expected was how perfectly Mark and Patty McClosky would serve as examples to the point of why people were marching down their street in the first place.
One bold person in my social media feed said, “They have the right to protect their house. If someone stepped on foot on my property, I’d shoot immediately.”…
