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Missouri couple pleads guilty to protecting their home from rioters
Mark and Patricia McCloskey
are two people who attained national attention during the Covid era and
the Black Lives Matter uprisings across the nation. These two, both in
their 60s, were seen by the nation standing with firearms in their
front yard protecting their home and assets from BLM protesters who had
reportedly broken an iron gate, ignored trespassing warning signs and
entered a private community where they lived. were charged in 2020
after BLM protesters broke down an iron gate and ignored a “No
Trespassing” sign on their private street.
This event has been a
topic of discussion in Tennessee since it occurred. Many, indeed most
Tennesseans, are unaware that you cannot use deadly force, which
includes brandishing a firearm, to protect your home, your business, or
your “stuff”. You cannot in Tennessee brandish a weapon to discourage
or stop trespassers. You cannot in Tennessee brandish a weapon to stop
looters – such as what happened in Nashville when Mayor John Cooper
welcomed another BLM protest mob that resulted in burning the historic
courthouse and looting downtown Nashville. You cannot in Tennessee
brandish a weapon to make a citizen’s arrest.
Notwithstanding
Tennessee’s laws which provide a means for rioters, looters, arsonists,
thieves and thugs to trespass, destroy and steal your property, damage
your home, destroy your business and take your “stuff” – Tennessee law
at present pretty much forces a victim in these property crimes to just
be a victim. It is an outrage that this is the case in Tennessee but it
is the case here.
So what happened to the McCluskies who were
the victims of a violent, property destroying mob who did nothing more
than stand on their own property and defend it? Now, they have criminal
records! What is worse, is that the rioters and trespassers in the BLM
mob were not arrested or convicted of their crimes.
According to news reports,
both of the McCluskies now have pled to misdemeanor criminal charges and
forfeited their firearms. They now have criminal records. They – the
victims – have had their property taken from them to be destroyed. Many
in the nation and certainly many in Tennessee would claim to do
likewise but are they aware that their actions are against the law and
in fact may result in them being charged and convicted as violent
criminals?
Tennessee law on this issue needs to be addressed and
changed. Clearly, the Tennessee legislature was aware of this problem
since the charges were filed in 2020 – long before the 2021 legislative
session started but the GOP super majority in Tennessee did nothing to
protect Tennesseans.
If you think you do or should have the
right to defend your home, your business, your assets and your life’s
work from mobs, rioters, looters, thieves and thugs it is important that
you let your legislators know that this needs to be addressed in
Tennessee as soon as they come back into session. |
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