WATCH: ‘Gun Couple’ Mark, Patricia McCloskey Speak Out In Support Of Rittenhouse, 2A Outside Courthouse

Famed “gun couple” Mark and Patricia McCloskey of St. Louis, traveled to Kenosha this week to support 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, who’s on trial for double homicide after he fatally shot two rioters and injured a third, last summer.

Rittenhouse has pleaded not guilty on all charges, citing self-defense.

Mr. McCloskey said he is hoping for an acquittal on all counts for the teen, noting that he and his wife support Americans’ Second Amendment right to defend themselves, particularly when the government fails to do so.

“We haven’t been in there to hear all the evidence,” Mark McCloskey said, adding, “From what we understand, from what I’ve seen, I’m hoping for an acquittal on all counts.”

“We’re just here to support people who exercise their Second Amendment rights to defend themselves, particularly when the government abdicates that duty and fail to protect their citizens,” he continued.

“I mean, we’ve got programs to ‘defund the police’ all over the place,” Mark McCloskey explained, “but if you defund the police and the government is not there to protect the citizens, citizens have to protect themselves.”

WATCH:

“If you defund the police, and the government is not there to protect the citizens, citizens have to protect themselves” Mark McCloskey speaking outside the Kenosha courthouse today, as the Rittenhouse case nears a verdict #Kenosha

— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) November 16, 2021

Last summer, the McCloskeys brandished their guns when Black Lives Matter protesters trespassed through their neighborhood. In June, the couple pleaded guilty to misdemeanor offenses related to encounter, The Daily Wire reported:

“Mark McCloskey pleaded guilty to fourth-degree assault and was fined $750. Patricia McCloskey pleaded guilty to second-degree harassment and was fined $2,000. Both agreed to give up their guns used in the altercation.”

Months later, Republican Missouri Governor Michael Parson pardoned the duo.

Armed homeowners Mark T. and Patricia N. McCloskey stand in front their house as they confront protesters marching to St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson's house on June 28, 2020. (Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS)

Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS via Getty Images

Speaking to Fox News, the pair reiterated their support for Rittenhouse.

“We feel for Mr. Rittenhouse,” Mark McCloskey said. “We feel he acted in self-defense.”

“We think he’s been politically prosecuted, as were we, and we’re hoping that the jury find him not guilty on all counts and that he can go home a free man,”


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