St Louis couple point guns at peaceful protestors on street by mansion

And not even a gun slit.

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:musical_note:
But on the back side it didn’t say nothing —
This land was made for you and me.
:musical_note:

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But it’s Twitter, so most of the comments are really hateful.

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Is trespassing on private property legal justification for threatening lethal force? I don’t know Missouri’s gun laws, but in my state it sure isn’t.

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If you two don’t stop with the tree jokes, @chgoliz & @Tamsin_Bailey, I’m gonna leave.

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They’ve gone off on a branch. You should really leaf it alone, I wood.

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They also seem to think the storming of the Bastille was a bad thing

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It’s just so sappy.

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Well the Bastille was a squat cube of stones and Versailles was/is a work of art of the highest order. Not quite the same thing.

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I suppose it would be when you’re the white, privileged zottarich peeking through your tasteless drapery and seeing a guillotine on your immaculate lawn.

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As is usually the case, the details matter.

https://twitter.com/IamShaneMorris/status/1277502087094571008
https://twitter.com/IamShaneMorris/status/1277502857374306304
https://twitter.com/IamShaneMorris/status/1277503404437274625
https://twitter.com/IamShaneMorris/status/1277504217440280578
https://twitter.com/IamShaneMorris/status/1277505475458879489
https://twitter.com/IamShaneMorris/status/1277509594051416070

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In the future, gated communities will be surrounded by actual walls. One of the HOA requirements will be that all residents must man the walls when needed. Repelling invaders takes a community.

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Well, Bonnie and Clod showed that you certainly can. But I take the meaning there as you can’t do that without consequences. Which I dearly hope for them is also the case.

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In his defense, unlike the protesters, she had a gun and represented an actual threat.

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From what I’ve read today there may be a legal grey area regarding trespassing here. The street is a private way, it is not a public street or right-of-way, however there is also no evidence anyone “broke the gate” to get in-- there is a pedestrian doorway that protesters entered single or double file. The man is saying that them being on the street is the same as them being in his living room. Oy vey. :roll_eyes:

Furthermore the couple seems to have goaded the protesters. The march was peaceful, organized and orderly until they started pointing guns and yelling at the crowd, so naturally some protesters started yelling back (almost a microcosm of how the police have instigated violence at other protests.)

The husband comparing the protest to a “storming the Bastille” moment is a big tell in my book-- these kinds of gated communities are by nature “elitist.”

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Might also be leftovers of someone’s orange makeup.

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Check @orenwolf’s post a few up. Looks like the City of St. Louis certainly thinks it’s public.

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This why I called it a “legal grey area”, I was unsure of the exact status, from what I’d read there was a lot of evidence it was private. Even the photos make it look like private property.

I expect more will emerge on this area during the week. So far most of what I’ve read does back up that the road is in fact public, but the residents either believe a myth that it’s private, or are trying to promote the idea that it’s private.

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Touché!

And (tilts hat) chapeau.

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I wish the reporter had asked “Is that why you pissed your khakis?”

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