Pardoned
Would the pardon have been forthcoming if the roles had been reversed?
A US couple who gained nationwide notoriety after they pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters last year have been pardoned.
Mark and Patricia McCloskey were filmed holding weapons outside their home in St Louis, Missouri. They were fined after pleading guilty to misdemeanour charges this year.
But Missouri’s Republican Governor Mike Parson has now pardoned them, something he had promised after US conservatives began to support the couple.
They weren’t filmed just “holding their weapons,” they were filmed (as the first paragraph says) pointing them at protesters who were marching past. Pointing them. That’s threatening. I’d be petrified if someone pointed a gun at me.
“When the angry mob came to destroy my house and kill my family, I took a stand against them,” he reportedly said in a recent campaign video. “I will never back down.”
Except that’s not what the angry mob came to do.
If they’re “taking back our country,” then they have license to threaten commies and anarchists.
Seriously, the fascism isn’t even creeping. Gerrymandering is set to begin soon to vote the minority party into a permanent majority. They are destroying the democracy to save the country.
I think that woman is at more danger from that gun than anybody she’s pointing it towards.
But, honestly, this is the most pathetic couple of the year.
A detail I hadn’t noticed before is that he’s barefoot.
To be fair, I spent that evening armed, too.
To be completely fair, that was inside my house with the lights out, so there was nothing to pardon.
I think the recoil cause the gun to hit her nose if she’s holding it like that when she fires.
Hahaha I had to zoom in to see that she was holding a gun – I thought it was a coffee cup at first glance!