"It's all political"? No kidding.

It's clear the couple meant to defend their property and very likely did, in course of doing so, fear for their lives, as they said at the time.

They showed the weapons in hopes of preventing an attack on their property and persons.

From the moment it happened the left media have very effectively attacked the couple as racist fascists criminally threatening peaceful and unthreatening, lawful demonstrators.

The demonstrators had destroyed the gate of a gated community in which all streets and walks, etc., are private property.

They destroyed property to trespass illegally on property in order to protest an action of the mayor's at her house.

The police have since seized the couple's guns, which were legally owned, and the couple have been charged with some sort of felony version of brandishing by a local Democrat prosecutor.

Missouri A.G. to Seek Dismissal of Charges against Couple Who Pointed Guns at Protesters

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is promising to seek the dismissal of charges against the St. Louis couple who pointed guns at protesters outside their house last month in an incident that was caught on video.

Mark and Patricia McCloskey were charged Tuesday with unlawful use of a weapon by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner.

“Enough is enough,” the attorney general said in a video message posted just hours after the charges were filed. 

“A political prosecution such as this one would have a chilling effect on Missourians exercising the right to self defense.”

Schmitt cited Missouri’s Castle Doctrine, which he said provides “broad rights to Missourians to protect and defend their personal safety and property against those who wish to do them harm.”

The attorney general added that Missouri should be focused on addressing the “crisis of violence” in the state’s cities rather than “divisive decisions not based on the law.” 

Schmitt has filed an amicus brief in the case defending the couple.

On June 28, the McCloskeys pointed guns at protesters after the crowd entered a private gated community on their way to St. Louis mayor Lyda Krewson’s residence to demand her resignation.

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Albert Watkins, an attorney for the McCloskeys, said that the couple felt threatened after “two individuals exhibited such force and violence destroying a century-plus-old wrought iron gate, ripping and twisting the wrought iron that was connected to a rock foundation, and then proceeded to charge at and toward and speak threateningly to Mr. and Mrs. McCloskey.”

“We must protect the right to peacefully protest, and any attempt to chill it through intimidation will not be tolerated,” Gardner said in filing the charges against the couple.

The governor of the state has promised an immediate pardon if the couple are actually convicted of anything.

Trump says it's an outrage.