Records expunged for St. Louis couple who waved guns at protesters. They want their guns back
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Garbage people.
They went on to monetize the shit out of their hate crime with several fox news appearances.
Absolutely garbage people and a failure of the justice system.
I think he also ran for state Senate but lost because losers gonna lose.
As he should have. I live in this shit hole state and it's a very small victory that he didn't win.
I also read an article detailing a bit about his life and he's an absolute piece of shit. He sued his sibling(s) to get the full inheritance when their parents died, and he cut off his other family from it once he got it.
Hello fellow Missourian! I've been planning to move away to be closer to friends, but I want to stick it out for the rest of this year so I can vote for abortion and hopefully tell the Republicans here to go fuck themselves in the process.
I've been wanting to move away for a while. My brother lives in Vegas and he wants us to move out there to be closer to him, and I'm considering it.
You might even call them “deplorables”.
Deplorable: deserving strong condemnation, shockingly bad in quality.
Describes exactly how bad they suck.
Doesn't say they are not human people, just that they're the kind of human people we deplore.
What an odd thing to say... For one, "slippery slope" is literally the name of the logical fallacy you're doing here.
But also, think about what you're saying for a moment. How does accurately describing a person's behavior dehumanize them? Are we just supposed to never acknowledge shitty behavior in others?
It's kind of the opposite... I've never heard an animal described as "deplorable". I'm not sure they're capable of it? So if anything, the term is humanizing.
I'm pretty sure if you put out a giant basket and labeled it DEPLORABLES, you'd soon find it filled to the rim with people wearing MAGA hats who climbed in there by themselves.
Maybe you were too young in 2016, but...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket_of_deplorables
Blame the MAGA army for getting super upset about it.
So either you don't know what "deplorable" means, or what "dehumanize" means. It's one or the other.
Even with a “clean” record they still shouldn’t get their guns back. Ignoring all second amendment arguments just look at how they are holding their guns in the main picture. They are in no way trained or even given half assed knowledge in how to hold a fire arm.
So having your booger hook on the bang switch of your tiny-ass gun while you and your mayonnaise husband cosplay as Rihanna and Shy Ronnie isn't the right way to go about things, you're saying?
And you can HANG from it!
Seriously tho, man, the striped top and everything...ridiculousness.
Sounds like people should test that theory by having a protest in front of their house and see what they do.
Also:
Oh my God, these people are so horrible they found a way to unite cops and BLM protesters.
me thinks they have the police department on speed dial and have worn thin their patience.
Iirc they're defense attorneys, the cops don't like them because of that.
Their records might be expunged, but their photos and what they did well never be.
No criminal record, sure, tarnished reputation amongst the left leaning side of the internet will remain
I'm sure they are quaking in their boots.
Rotten scum.
I feel like American gun control as it is now would actually be effective if the cops stopepd giving the white criminals their guns back, or in some cases actually take them away when the law says they should.
You can put whatever law you want on the books, but if the PDs aren't going to enforce it the way they haven't been enforcing what we already have, its not gonna do shit. They'll definitely enforce it on some types of people though.
Weirdly enough the police opposed the expungements here. These idiots have managed to unite everyone against them
Ah, white privilege is sooo .. baldfaced / shameless.
I hope someone will rally in front of their home every weekend from now on. If I live in St Louis, I'd be there for sure.
"We had to defend ourselves. Antifa were coming to get us. We aren't some psychotic shitheads who think that guns make us powerful!"
Them guns is gone. Cops regular lose them once confiscated.
What an odd comment. Literally no one but that MAGA couple cares if they get their exact same guns returned, this is about having their privilege to own firearms restored after pointing guns at peaceful protestors.
The title is literally “they want their guns back”
People afraid of their own shadow because of how dark it is.
Wow GTA 6 looks lit.