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KINGSTON Accompanied by a former area congressman and a local candidate for Congress, a Missouri couple that gained national fame for pulling guns on Black Lives Matter protesters outside their home in June visited Luzerne County on a Team Trump bus tour Wednesday.

Mark and Patricia McCloskey touted the Second Amendment and advocated for President Donald Trumps reelection while addressing dozens of supporters outside the Republican Party of Luzerne County headquarters on Wyoming Avenue in Kingston.

Its been such an honor to ride with Mark and Patty. They are really American heroes who stood up, who had a backbone and werent going to let somebody take something that didnt belong to them. I want to thank them for coming to Pennsylvania, former U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta of Hazleton told the crowd.

During a 20-minute address in front of the tour bus, Mark McCloskey said hundreds of protesters, some armed with guns, trespassed into the couples private community in St. Louis on June 28 and surrounded their home amid unrest in the city over racial injustice. They threatened to murder him, rape his wife, burn down their house and kill their dog, he said.

He said police and fire departments notoriously had stopped responding to looting, violence and fires in the city amid the chaos, so he felt he needed to take a stand.

We didnt feel like getting burned up. We didnt feel like getting shot and wanted to defend ourselves, Mark McCloskey said.

Fearing a mob of protesters would possibly come near their neighborhood, Mark McCloskey said he had fire extinguishers placed around his house and guns at the ready on the first floor.

Mark McCloskey said he and his wife were preparing to barbecue outside and werent even wearing shoes when the protesters entered the private community and approached their house. He said he retrieved an AR-15 rifle from their home and his wife emerged with a handgun, which he said was inoperable.

They aimed the guns at protesters, but in the end, no shots were fired and the protesters eventually moved on.

After images and videos of the gun-toting incident circulated around the country, the McCloskeys became heroes to Second Amendment advocates on the right and were seen as reckless vigilantes to many on the left.

St. Louis prosecutors eventually charged the couple with a felony count of unlawful use of a weapon and the case is still pending.

We have seen up close and personal a taste of things to come if the Harris-Biden administration takes over the country, McCloskey said. Pennsylvania is critical to the president winning this election and we wanted to do whatever we can to make sure Donald J. Trump gets reelected.

Prior to the Kingston event, the McCloskey bus tour visited Hazletons GOP campaign office and afterward it visited the Scranton GOP office.

Jim Bognet of Hazleton who is running against U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-8, of Moosic introduced the McCloskeys in Kingston.

Weve been warning all year that if we didnt stop this violence and shut down whats happening in Portland and Chicago, it would come to Pennsylvania. One day in June it came to these peoples doors. It came to their doors a mob out of control, Bognet said. What did they do? They stood up and used their Second Amendment rights. And now they are here to tell their story about how they stood up for themselves and big city liberals are going after them and trying to destroy their life.

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St. Louis couple that pulled guns on protesters advocate for 2nd Amendment, Trump in NEPA - Wilkes-Barre Citizens Voice