The Professor's Record, [17.06.21 19:20]
Regarding Mark McCloskey. He seems like a good guy, and I was proud of him for defending his property exactly the way he did it. I get the "practical" considerations for a plea deal.

If he wasn't running for U.S. Senate with the campaign slogan "I will never back down" I wouldn't even mention the above.

It's an "okay" plea deal. The DA dropped the felony counts (which he had no chance of proving), and leveraged that into a misdemeanor plea deal.

The misdemeanor charge, by the way, was highly defensible at trial.

More importantly, you also can't assert you will do "everything" to defend the 2nd Amendment on behalf of constituents, because when YOU are on probation, YOU can't possess firearms as a standard condition.

Call me old fashioned, but "I will never back down" means something very different to me, than pleading guilty and giving up my firearms.