kptaylor said:
Nope probably same CCW course where they teach you about brandishing, not leaving a safe location to confront with your weapon and general common sense. Whether it's a group of anarchists , zombies or whoever, why would you put yourself at risk trying to be a badass?
Contrary to meme's online they aren't democrats or really republicans source
here. No party affiliation is required in Missouri and they've donated to both parties...most recently republicans. Given their most recent donations I can only assume they watched news sources that didn't go out of their way to downplay deaths, property damage, assault, arson, etc. in regards to the current tensions around the USA. Yeah they're not operators, yeah that trigger discipline is atrocious, yeah they flagged each other. However they were average people who with the information (assumption by me) they had saw a very real potential for danger coming through and into their private property. A gate was broken, a photographer with the large group said someone bent the gate open to enter that private property. If you watched a large group of people that you know could turn violent at any moment would you sit in your house and wait for the molotov? I'm not saying that would have happened. We can't know because we didn't see schrodinger's shit show play out in all its permutations nor can we know their thoughts with certainty as we aren't telepathic. However its very possible that what they in the moment felt was that they could be in real danger. I'm not a lawyer, but from what I've garnered online through this
source you could argue that subdivision 4 applies. However the Mccloskeys being lawyers made sure that was a moot point(my assumption here). In fact a staffer was caught tampering with evidence to try to make that applicable. Was the firearm operable at the time of the incident? Who knows, but what we do know is that when the pistol was surrendered to the police it was in an inoperable state. (Cute Lawyer Move?). This
source might tempt someone to argue that they fall under subdivision 1 for unlawful use of force. However despite being portrayed as the aggressors, they were on their property when someone broke in. In addition in Section 3? subdivision 1 and 2. It specifically states they had no duty to retreat. Being lawyers they probably have had a once over on this stuff prior to this. My assumption is afterwards they contacted their peers or did their own research made sure that they wouldn't fall prey to subdivision 4 in 571-030 and put 563-031 in their back pocket. My assumption is also that, being lawyers, they figured they could litigate their way out of something. Not being immortal/necromancers, they had no response for death so they chose their actions accordingly.
Do you care about optics or living is essentially what I've seen most discussions on this play out. What about the cops? Well would they have responded? Would they have responded in time? Why not just hunker down in their home? There's no duty to retreat, that house isn't a bunker, I suppose it's possible they have a panic room...fire still burns things/melts things/cooks things maybe they saw the potential for incendiary devices being used by ne'er do wells in the group. That wasn't in their actual home though? Well that also wasn't a public space, and how much reaction time would you like to cut for the sake of optics? Well you don't know what you're talking about and my experience is xyz. I could give someone that depending on their bonafides. I've already stated I'm not a lawyer, I'm also not private security, I'm also not a cop, I've also not had that specific situation happen to me.