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St. Louis Gun-Brandisher Mark McCloskey Announces Run for Senator of Missouri
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<blockquote data-quote="essentialsaltes" data-source="post: 75960951" data-attributes="member: 294566"><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/19/missouri-mark-mccloskey-senate-campaign/" target="_blank"><em>LINK</em></a></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Mark McCloskey’s star rose quickly in the Republican Party after he and his wife pointed guns at racial justice protesters marching through their gated St. Louis neighborhood last summer — even as the couple was each hit with a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/20/st-louis-couple-who-aimed-guns-protesters-charged-with-felony-weapons-count/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2" target="_blank">felony weapons charge </a>over the incident.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>(Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) vowed in October to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/gun-politics-st-louis-archive-michael-brown-7c92245ea8ebb1a0b98e31d8e05c1f8e" target="_blank">pardon the McCloskeys</a> if they are convicted.)</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>He appeared on <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/01/mccloskey-st-louis-guns-protest/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4" target="_blank">cable news</a> to defend his actions and to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/armed-st-louis-rioters-threatened-couple-guns-attorney" target="_blank">vilify</a> the peaceful crowd that was marching to St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson’s nearby house. He <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-gun-toting-mccloskeys-said-they-feared-death-but-they-survived-to-fight-the-culture-wars/2020/08/25/f94f1238-e65d-11ea-970a-64c73a1c2392_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_4" target="_blank">gave a prime-time address</a>at the 2020 Republican National Convention last August.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Now, nearly a year after <a href="https://twitter.com/xshularx/status/1277398234055483393?s=20" target="_blank">video</a> of the tense faceoff with protesters went viral, McCloskey, 64, has announced plans to run for the Senate.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>“God came knocking on my door disguised as an angry mob,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mark-mccloskey-st-louis-man-who-defended-home-from-blm-announces-senate-run-ill-defend-the-people-of-mo" target="_blank">McCloskey said</a> on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “If we don’t stand up now and take this country back, it’s going away.”</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>--</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>“An angry mob marched to destroy my home and kill my family. I took a stand to defend them,” he said in the ad. “I am a proven fighter against the mob.”</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Despite McCloskey’s repeated claims that he feared for his life and believed the protesters intended to harm his home during the march on June 28,<a href="https://www.kmov.com/news/st-louis-couple-seen-pointing-guns-at-protestors/article_afbb1b2c-b98e-11ea-ba7e-b3452007bfc8.html" target="_blank"> video suggested</a> that the crowd merely passed through an open gate on their way to the mayor’s home to stage a peaceful demonstration.</em></p><p></p><p>What a country! Where waving firearms at people just might be your ticket to Congress. He definitely got the memo that the new GOP platform is scant on policy, big on 'fighting to take back our country'.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="essentialsaltes, post: 75960951, member: 294566"] [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/19/missouri-mark-mccloskey-senate-campaign/'][I]LINK[/I][/URL] [I] Mark McCloskey’s star rose quickly in the Republican Party after he and his wife pointed guns at racial justice protesters marching through their gated St. Louis neighborhood last summer — even as the couple was each hit with a [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/20/st-louis-couple-who-aimed-guns-protesters-charged-with-felony-weapons-count/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2']felony weapons charge [/URL]over the incident. (Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) vowed in October to [URL='https://apnews.com/article/gun-politics-st-louis-archive-michael-brown-7c92245ea8ebb1a0b98e31d8e05c1f8e']pardon the McCloskeys[/URL] if they are convicted.) He appeared on [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/01/mccloskey-st-louis-guns-protest/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4']cable news[/URL] to defend his actions and to [URL='https://www.foxnews.com/us/armed-st-louis-rioters-threatened-couple-guns-attorney']vilify[/URL] the peaceful crowd that was marching to St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson’s nearby house. He [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-gun-toting-mccloskeys-said-they-feared-death-but-they-survived-to-fight-the-culture-wars/2020/08/25/f94f1238-e65d-11ea-970a-64c73a1c2392_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_4']gave a prime-time address[/URL]at the 2020 Republican National Convention last August. Now, nearly a year after [URL='https://twitter.com/xshularx/status/1277398234055483393?s=20']video[/URL] of the tense faceoff with protesters went viral, McCloskey, 64, has announced plans to run for the Senate. “God came knocking on my door disguised as an angry mob,” [URL='https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mark-mccloskey-st-louis-man-who-defended-home-from-blm-announces-senate-run-ill-defend-the-people-of-mo']McCloskey said[/URL] on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “If we don’t stand up now and take this country back, it’s going away.” -- “An angry mob marched to destroy my home and kill my family. I took a stand to defend them,” he said in the ad. “I am a proven fighter against the mob.” Despite McCloskey’s repeated claims that he feared for his life and believed the protesters intended to harm his home during the march on June 28,[URL='https://www.kmov.com/news/st-louis-couple-seen-pointing-guns-at-protestors/article_afbb1b2c-b98e-11ea-ba7e-b3452007bfc8.html'] video suggested[/URL] that the crowd merely passed through an open gate on their way to the mayor’s home to stage a peaceful demonstration.[/I] What a country! Where waving firearms at people just might be your ticket to Congress. He definitely got the memo that the new GOP platform is scant on policy, big on 'fighting to take back our country'. [/QUOTE]
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