I think I know how most of us feel about this but I have to check. Here is my take on it. First, if he was my 17-year old son he would never have been there, with or without an AR. It's a riot area and he's likely to either get hurt, get into trouble, or both. It wouldn't have mattered if he was asked to be there to clean graffiti, hand out bandaids, or sing Kum ba yah. Maybe some of you all feel different about this.
However, having said that. once he's there, with an AR or an Atomic-fucking-bomb. He has a right, no, a duty, to protect his own life from someone who is trying to take it from him. If he has as much right to be there with a fire extinguisher putting out fires as the people are there setting the fires, then his armed presence isn't a provocation. The jury had no choice but to find him not guilty.
When that prosecutor said that the mob was a crowd of heroes trying to save people from an active shooter I almost through my big-screen threw my other big-screen.
They called him a white supremacist. That kid had no more opinion or political leaning than my Border Collie. He likely does now.
A lot of lives were forever changed that night. Rittenhouse was chased down by a mob that was clearly trying to do him grievous harm and he ended up killing two people and injuring a third. His whole life is now going to revolve around this for the foreseeable future. He's going to be sued just about forever by just about everyone. He's never going to be able to leave this behind him and lead a normal life. Sooner or later a movie or two will be made about it. We'll see if he's the maniacal villain or the innocent victim.
However, having said that. once he's there, with an AR or an Atomic-fucking-bomb. He has a right, no, a duty, to protect his own life from someone who is trying to take it from him. If he has as much right to be there with a fire extinguisher putting out fires as the people are there setting the fires, then his armed presence isn't a provocation. The jury had no choice but to find him not guilty.
When that prosecutor said that the mob was a crowd of heroes trying to save people from an active shooter I almost through my big-screen threw my other big-screen.
They called him a white supremacist. That kid had no more opinion or political leaning than my Border Collie. He likely does now.
A lot of lives were forever changed that night. Rittenhouse was chased down by a mob that was clearly trying to do him grievous harm and he ended up killing two people and injuring a third. His whole life is now going to revolve around this for the foreseeable future. He's going to be sued just about forever by just about everyone. He's never going to be able to leave this behind him and lead a normal life. Sooner or later a movie or two will be made about it. We'll see if he's the maniacal villain or the innocent victim.
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