Daryl wrote:Now from what I can see, he took an assault rifle
‘Assault rifle’ is a pejorative term which anti-gun zealots have repeatedly redefined to mean whatever they want it to mean on any particular day. The label no longer conveys any information other than blind opposition to private gun ownership.
Daryl wrote:travelled a significant distance to attend
Kyle Rittenhouse drove 15 miles to the next town. Where he worked. Where his father lived, and still does. ‘Across a state line’ was a matter so trivial it wasn’t even a consideration. Unlike, say, rioters shipped in from cities hundreds of miles away to burn Kenosha to the ground.
Our state lines are not delineated by razor wire and guard posts. In most places, there is nothing more to mark the border than a sign by the roadside:
WELCOME TO WISCONSINDriving past it several times a week would make it tend to fade into the background. I doubt he ever thought about ‘crossing the state line’. He didn’t even ‘transport a firearm across a state line’ — which is not illegal — because the rifle was at his father’s house in Kenosha.
Daryl wrote:with the expressed desire to prevent marchers from doing things.
His primary piece of equipment that night was a first aid kit. The rifle was merely a backup; a prudently considered one, because when trying to help people being attacked by a mob, the mob can turn on you. As they did. If he had not been armed, he would be dead and the left-wing media would be happy.
NONE of the rioters that murdered people in other cities have even been arrested, much less prosecuted. Why is that?
Daryl wrote:I grew up in the country, with guns, and to me you only take a gun and point it at something if you intend to kill it.
Which is exactly what K.R. did. He pointed the gun at violent rioters that were trying to kill him. Some of them backed off, and he held fire. Three of them continued trying to kill him, and he shot them. I’ve seen the videos, over and over. He acted with commendable restraint.
Daryl wrote:Thus, in any country but the US, the trial would have been over in a day. Took a gun, killed people, guilty.
Which is why I am thankful not to live in any other country. When you are more likely to be thrown in jail for shooting a violent criminal that has broken into your house than the criminal would be for shooting you, the law has been perverted.
cthia wrote:And then we have the judge saying that it's okay to call the victims "looters, arsonists and antifa" but not "victims"
That is what they were. All three of the ‘victims’ were violent criminals. It wasn’t just what they did during the riots, it was the crimes they had committed years before. Rosenbaum, the first one, had just been released from a mental hospital that very morning after spending ten years in prison for molesting multiple children. The other two had also been previously convicted of violent felonies. Including the one that shoved a gun into Kyle’s face. It is illegal tor a felon to possess a gun. Why has Grosskreutz not been arrested, and charged?
That is, to say the least…unusual. Violent felons make up a very small percentage of the U.S. population. The odds that someone could randomly pick three people out of a crowd, and
ALL THREE would ‘just happen’ to be violent felons, are literally a million to one.
But such are the ‘Sainted Martyrs’ of the Left. We see it again and again. Most of the Left’s celebrated ‘victims’ are scum. Robbers, gang punks, rapists, murderers and child molesters. They get killed while committing the same violent crimes they’ve been committing all their lives, and we’re told they are ‘victims’ of ‘systemic racism’ rather than villains reaping the fruits of a life of crime.
We also have the left-wing media’s daily ongoing meltdowns about the ‘pervasive systemic racism’ in this trial. K.R. is racist, the judge is racist, the jury is racist, why, the whole damn court is racist!
Kyle Rittenhouse is white. The three violent criminals he shot when they tried to kill him in the middle of a riot were white. The three Soros sock-puppets mismanaging the prosecution are white. The defense lawyers are white. The judge is white. Hell, even the court clerk and the bailiff are white!
I have looked, and looked, and I just don’t see where race plays any part in this whole affair. It’s like the media mouthpieces have one set of scripts they use even when they have no bearing on the issues.
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When police shoot violent criminals to protect innocent people, they are jackbooted fascist stormtroopers.
When police shoot innocent people to protect corrupt politicians, they are National Heroes.