Mark McCloskey, the man in St. Louis, Missouri, who aimed a rifle at peaceful anti-police brutality protesters as his wife Patricia swung her tiny pistol around on Sunday evening, painted the situation as some kind of French Revolution in miniature.
At least he understands his position in all of this.
Fat white guy in a pink shirt feeling threatened by peaceful protesters, so he waves around a weapon he’s likely never fired. Sounds like a Trump voter.
Back for a remedial course in history for you, Mr. McCloskey!!
Mr. McCloskey: “Let them eat cake and my AR-15!”
When asked if the protesters had trespassed on his personal property, McCloskey argued that the entire neighborhood was “private property,” therefore “being inside that gate is like being in my living room.”
Oh, St. Louis and your gated neighborhoods in a sea of abandoned inner city poverty. I’ve never seen a better example of the results of white flight.
I don’t understand why people like Ken and Karen, or the police for that matter, think that they need to escalate every situation. Maybe next time, just sit this one out.
That would make him the Marquis de Sade, if I recall my history correctly.
“I really thought it was storming the Bastille, that we would be dead and the house would be burned and there was nothing we could do about it,” McCloskey said. “It was a huge and frightening crowd.”
Storming the Bastille? Hyperbole and he knows it. So, does he really believe that his home is equivalent to the Bastille fortress/prison? If they were storming the Bastille, he would most certainly be dead now because they would have stormed the Bastille with weapons and utterly overpowered him.
When asked if the protesters had trespassed on his personal property, McCloskey argued that the entire neighborhood was “private property,” therefore “being inside that gate is like being in my living room.”
In the first place, he is correct that the gated neighborhood is private property, but it is not HIS private property. In the second place, trespassing in an area that is not the private property of the aggrieved is supposed to be handled by the police, especially since no one entered HIS private property. In the third place, no prudent person would ever believe that being inside the gate of the gated community is “like being in my living room.” That is bullshit. He’s just trying to make excuses for waving his compensating gun around.
He does know how the French Revolution ended, doesn’t he?
Does this guy realize that the storming of the Bastille is like France’s Fourth of July?
he and the missus are both personal injury attorneys ~ hello, Missouri Bar?
Yeah, the good guys prevailed, just like the American Civil War. No wonder he’s upset.
No, he just knows the aristocrats lost their heads over it.
Seriously, the whole event would have gone over splendidly if they had opened a lemonade stand and offered free lemonade to the hot protesters. They would’ve been fuckin’ heroes for a day. 
I’m surprised that the vast amount of white privilege these asses carry around can fit inside even that big a mansion.
Wait - can you spell your name for me again, Mac, McClosky? I’m knitting here…
Pretty sure De Sade was all like “thanks for breaking me out!”
Is the name meant ironically?
Because, if I recall my history correctly, Bragg was not exactly the Confederacy’s best soldier.
Or do you adopt the view of some recent historians that Bragg’s numerous defeats were not entirely his fault?
Or … ?
“And also, just so you know, I actually do own the whole road.”
