Is a Backlash Coming?

By Rich Kozlovich

I just posted a piece about the McCloskey's and their stand to defend their property, and probably the property of their neighbors, although based on the relationship they have with their neighbors, that was unintentional.

Make no mistake about this. Americans are watching all these "reform" efforts that seem more like insurrection than reform, filled with murders, rapes, rampage and destruction. All in the name of social justice. And based on the actions of those promoting "Social Justice", I think we can easily conclude that if there ever was an oxymoronic term, that's it. America is scared, and rightly so, and America is arming!

One of my favorite writers is Andrea Widburg, who posted this piece on American Thinker today. 

Americans are on a gun buying binge saying:

Once upon a time, Barack Obama was America’s best gun salesman. Now, Obama’s a mere piker. Combining the Wuhan virus shortages with Black Lives Matter violence has resulted in the greatest gun-buying binge in American history. Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting (“SAAF”) released a study about firearms sales in the United States in 2020. The numbers are astounding. Over the last few months, Americans have witnessed mob violence over everything from toilet paper shortages to the artfully created (and completely wrong) perception that police are gunning for black men and that the U.S. is a racist country. Not being idiots, Americans have responded to this sense of encroaching lawlessness by arming themselves.

The study’s results are stunning. After reviewing raw data from the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (adjusted for checks that were probably unrelated to firearms), SAAF concluded that, just in June, Americans purchased almost 2.4 million guns, which represents a 145.3% increase over sales in June 2019. The biggest increase (+177.5%)came from handgun sales, with more than 1.5 million sold. Long-gun sales were 114.3% greater than last year, with over 690,000 sold.

People I've known for over thirty and forty years who never owned a gun are now buying guns, getting permits, and getting concealed carry permits.  Why? They're scared, and those of us who are long past our youth have begun to feel like targets for these thugs, and these elderly people are not going to go down whimpering.   

As for the states and cities where all this has been allowed, and even encouraged by the local politicians, and even insane left wing national politicians:  This will have to come to an end.  And at some point these elected officials, who've sworn oaths of office to do their duty and have not, will either do the job they're supposed to do or society will do it for them.  But this can't continue for long in America.  Americans won't stand for it, and the worn out "racist" epithet won't fly much longer.   America isn't a racist country, and I will have more on this over the next few days.

At some point reasonable people who are being denigrated as racists for political gain will begin to ignore these slurs and insults and become racists, and if this isn't brought under control soon, I fear anarchy will reign, and the radicals may not like the outcome.

Andrea also posted this piece today, Have we reached the point at which self-defense is a crime?

saying:

Thirty-five American states have stand-your-ground laws, while the remaining fifteen require retreat only when it can be done with absolute safety (although none require retreat when the attack takes place in a person’s own home or “castle”). America strongly supports self-defense. Or does it? Recently, activist prosecutors seem to be criminalizing self-defense when whites use it against blacks. In 2012 in Florida, George Zimmerman, a half-Hispanic man whom the media labeled as white, killed Trayvon Martin.

Law enforcement knew that Zimmerman had been following Martin from a distance, that Martin jumped Zimmerman, and that Martin brutally attacked Zimmerman before Zimmerman shot him. Nevertheless, the Seminole County prosecutor charged Zimmerman with murder. Obama’s Justice Department also spent three years investigating Zimmerman for violating Martin’s civil rights. Eventually, a jury acquitted Zimmerman, and the DOJ stopped harassing him.

It later emerged that the prosecution and the Martin family had knowingly relied on false evidence against Zimmerman. He has since sued various people associated with the case for $100 million.............To Read More....

The McCloskey Story, and Crisis in America

By Rich Kozlovich

This video surfaced on the internet showing Mark McCloskey and his wife standing up to the barbarians who standing outside home with guns, and that's when this mob "turned mostly peaceful".  Becca Woods posted an article yesterday entitled,  Neighbors Sign Letter Condemning St. Louis Gun-Bearing Couple.

She notes that nearly three dozen of the McCloskey's neighbors signed the letter condemning the McCloskey's with a lot of meaningless drivel as she notes:

The letter explains that Westermore Place and the adjoining street Portland Place are historic neighborhoods with the City of St. Louis representing many walks of life. "As the undersigned, we condemn the behavior of anyone who uses threats of violence, especially through the brandishing of firearms, to disrupt peaceful protest, whether it be in this neighborhood or anywhere in the United States," the letter reads. The residents wrote that they seek positive action and constructive dialogue to build a civil society. 

Okay, that really sounds nice, but what exactly does it mean when they claim they would "seek positive action and constructive dialogue to build a civil society"?

These "protesters" were armed, violent, destructive, they made threats to these people's lives and property" but after they smashed through the gate they were "mostly peaceful".  Especially when guns there were aimed at them.  Exactly what "positive action and constructive dialogue" do they think would have worked on these barbarians.  What would have worked to prevent them from wreaking havoc on this now broken into, no longer secure, no longer safe, gated community that would "build a civil society"? And why did they separate themselves and live in a gated community in the first place?  Do I detect the faint odor of hypocrisy?  Imagine that!

Based on their letter, we have to assume they have some sort of system in mind!  Right?  If that's so, and since they're shooting off their mouths, it must be so, then I have to ask why didn't they go out into the streets and confront these barbarians with their "positive action plan with its constructive dialogue"?   Afraid?  Why?  Weren't the "mostly" peaceful? 

It's easy to be brave when someone else has driven the barbarians off.

Let's face it, this letter, beyond the leftist pandering narrative, never states how they would have handled that mess.  But one thing we absolutely know, they never once stepped out into the streets and stood up to do anything, let alone "seek positive action and constructive dialogue" with this armed band of thugs.

However, it seems the McCloskey's are a lawsuit happy couple and a pain in the butt on the best of days, at least it appears that way in the article, Neighbors From Hell? The Insane Drama Behind the Gun-Toting St. Louis Lawyer Couple.  The author outlines all the issues between the McClosky's, his neighbors, the local homeowners association and others.  They even sued forcing the previous owner to sell the house to them, and the turmoil has never ended, including pulling guns on people before. People who did not represent harm to them. 

I've often wondered why would anyone want to live in a gated community with people who don't want you living there, and then, after moving in, stirring up strife.  Who wants to live that way? Some things are worth standing up for, and some things just aren't worth the aggravation, and the McCloskey's don't seem to have a aggravation filter.  If all that's being said about them is true, I wouldn't want them as neighbors either.

But all that's a separate issue!

The real issue is the willingness to defend society against barbarians, and the one thing history has shown beyond contestation is this: In a war between the barbarians and the wimps, the barbarians will win every time, and the McCloskey's are living amidst a society of wimps.

But now they're not only facing the neighbors.  As Andrea Widburg points out in this article:

A mob, some members of which appeared to be armed and dangerous, trespassed on the McCloskeys’ property. The McCloskeys used guns to warn the mob off their property but did not fire the guns. Now, a prosecutor who won her election with help from George Soros, says that the McCloskeys’ conduct constituted a “violent assault” that may justify a criminal charge. Missouri is a “stand your ground” state.

She goes on to show time after time how corrupt left wing politicians are siding with barbarians and thugs against peaceful citizens defending themselves against violent out of control black and white leftist radicals.   And that's in states with right to stand laws

As she notes at the end of her piece.

With Democrats defunding the police or driving them off the streets, people of all colors are going to resort to self-defense. It’s legal in one form or another across America,and people's lizard brains are going to react hard when threatened. We’re at a perilous moment in America if leftists first deprive people of police protection and then activist prosecutors criminalize self-defense only when whites do it. If people do not believe they are getting the benefit of equal protection under the law, they will stop complying with the law entirely.

It's crisis time in America!