Exercising The Right
The New Gun Control
John Howting, in Chronicles Magazine on July 22, accurately described phenomena sweeping the nation. Howting wrote about what he called a new form of gun control where “the left is making the consequences of defending oneself with a firearm so dire for white people that none will even want to own a gun. The mainstream right is letting them get away with it by accepting the left’s narrative, that in any confrontation between a white male and a non-white male, the former is always at fault.”
To support his argument, Howting cited recent incidents from across the country where white gun owners lawfully defended themselves but then ended up being prosecuted afterward. The first incident he discussed was the widely known case involving Mark and Patricia McCloskey in St. Louis, who defended their home with guns — by merely holding their guns at the ready — after rioters broke into their private community.
Howting also wrote about “Jillian and Eric Wuestenberg, a white couple from metro Detroit,” who after exiting a restaurant with takeout food for their four children accidentally bumped elbows “with a 15-year-old African American girl” and “her mother [who then] promptly hurled accusations of racism while filming with their cellphones. The Wuestenbergs got in their car and began to back out but members of the African-American family began hitting the back of the car, which triggered a safety feature and caused the car to lock up. The Wuestenbergs were surrounded. Mrs. Wuestenberg got out of the car and was confronted by the yelling, cellphone-wielding black mother. At this point, Jillian Wuestenberg took out her handgun and pointed it at the black mother, telling her to get away from their car — a terrifying, out-of-context image that quickly went viral. Subsequently, the Oakland County prosecutor charged Mrs. Wuestenberg with felonious assault.”
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