Capitol Hill Blue Forums Thread Like Summary - It's now official: Rightwingers are free to kill you and claim sefl-defense

Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of killing two people and wounding another.

Recap:

Kyle Rittenhouse, then 17 years old, travieled from Antioch, IL to Kenosa, WI with the help of his mother to "protect property" in a community he did not live in and was not invited to protect. Rittenhouse made comments on social media about "wanting to get into with antiFA and BLM."

Welp, Kyle "got into it" by fatally shototing Josepth Rosenbaum - who was chasing the teenager and threw a bag at him - and then tried to flee. A crowd of people pursued the teenager, and Rittenhouse shot at an unidentified man who kicked him; fatally shot Anthony Huber, who had hit him with a skateboard; and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz, who was armed with a pistol.

I certainly hope that fedeal charges are brought and this 18 year old creep sees prison time.

We're going to see an army of Rittenhouses now.
The bad news however, is that the Trump Right needs to know that if there's another insurrection, anyone who mows down a few dozen insurrectionists will be using the Rittenhouse defense too.

When Kyle Rittenhouse killed two men and maimed another because he was scared they would kill him just because he was shooting them, and was acquitted by a Wisconsin jury on all charges, this verdict ushered in a new era in America: when fearing for your life is grounds to kill someone who is trying to defend themselves from you threatening their life.

Everyone knew this verdict was coming, but it doesn't make it hurt any less.

The Right has a new hero, one whose thirst to shoot people the jury was not allowed to see because it was prejudicial, a kid who cold-cocking of a girl, just weeks before he killed two people and maimed another, the jury was not allowed to see because it was prejudicial, one whose new bosom friends the Proud Boys and gun maniacs are thirsting to shoot some leftists themselves.

And it's now open season on woke folks.

Logtroll - I’ve had that same conversation - that I don’t live in fear of the statistically remote chance hence don’t need to protect myself from it - nice to know there are others.

This is not intended as any kind of legal opinion, it’s just me, but - if I am in a public place (hell, if I am in a private place) and you show up openly armed, my brain will slot you immediately into “aggressor,” and absolutely not as “protector.”

Greger, you didn’t ask me but that’s never stopped me answering before:

Hell, yes, I’m afraid of conservatives carrying guns around. Ditto liberals, libertarians, old farts from Maine, duck hunters from Minnesota, nuns, toddlers, soldiers, and yes, police officers.

Every and any time I see a gun in public I know that a responsible gun owner has been taught not to carry unless prepared to use.

Therefore every time I see a gun in public I know it’s there to intimidate and to endanger.

Scares the daylights out of me.

I certainly do see the difference.

Travis McMichael cried in the courtroom and declared he feared for his life.

We'll see how it goes. What Travis and partners were doing was legal at the time.
In Ahmaud Arbery's Name, Georgia Repeals Citizen's Arrest Law
Travis is white, Ahmaud was black.

Greger, I know what that boy did was legal, except for the part about it being illegal for him to carry an AR15 the charge of which was thrown out by the judge.
And his mother was not charged, why?

It's really hard for me to accept the argument that if everybody had just left him alone.
Seeing a child with a big gun struting through the crowd is scary as hell.
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Oh ok. So we don't really have a race problem. It's just the natural way of things.

I'm sorry this sh*t just hurts my soul.