Capitol Hill Blue Forums Misc. Topics Ain't This America It's now official: Rightwingers are free to kill you and claim sefl-defense

Common sense tells me that people will be killed, women will be raped, disease will take some and car crashes others Thousands upon thousands of cases are tried every day, some I might agree with, some not. You needn't fear an army of Ritterhouses in the streets or that suddenly conservatives start gunning for libruls and claiming self-defense in a sudden bloodbath due to this kid's luck in drawing a sympathetic judge.

A Kansas City cop just got convicted of murdering a black man. A black man just got his death sentence commuted too. There's good and bad in the world, Yin and Yang. But if you focus your gaze only where the media wants you to focus your gaze you will become hypnotized by this one politically charged case which serves no purpose other than to drive another wedge between the factions.

You're confusing fear with loathing. I'm not Conservative. I'm simply don't appreciate who they are.

Every single day of my life, I am confronted by what Conservatives think of me and what laws they want to enact to silence me or make me invisible. I certainly didn't form my opinions of Conservatives in an unthouightful way. I stand by my opinion of Consevatives.

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.

Rittenhouse was prepared to use his AR-15 which was gotten for him because he knew he was too young to purchase one himself, and he knew what he was going was illegal. Kyle went looking for trouble.



#FederalWeaponsChargesForKyle

Conservatives won't wear masks, because God will protect them. Yet, they open-carry guns because God won't protect them? Conservative logic.

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.

As well it should.
I don't know why his mother wasn't charged, did she kill somebody too?

Murder 1 was never gonna fly. Remember Trayvon Martin? They couldn't even pin a murder 2 charge on Zimmerman, and Ritterhouse had witnesses who saw the crowd attacking him and proving his self-defense claim.

If anyone is to blame for this it is overzealous prosecutors who want more than the judge and jury are liable to deliver.

Similar to Democrats in real life.

Good Morning. I understand the emotion of this thread, I even understand the misplaced sympathy for the victims, but I believe that your reaction is based on entitlement, misinformation and party loyalty.
First, Rittenhouse should have stayed home. His mother should have talked him out of traveling to Kenosha to protect his grandparents. What good is being a lone gunman in the middle of hundreds of violent people? Even a 17 year old mind can conjure up the potential for disaster. But the blame, the real blame, rests on the protesters (criminal trespassers). Where is it written that because you are part of a “mostly peaceful” protest it is OK to burn police cars and buildings? Where does the law allow people to break windows and loot, which is just another word for rob, private businesses? And, when the police refuse to protect these businesses, or are prohibited from doing so, what do you expect people to do?

Look, I know it is all PC to respect BLM, to make excuses for their bad behavior and criminal activities during their “mostly peaceful” protests, but the vast majority of people want to live a safe and totally peaceful life. When the illusion of that safe and peaceful life is torn away, violence usually follows. It is the reason that the police forces were formed.
I sympathize with the victims families, and the loss of life. I can honestly say that I wish it never happened. But in this case, justice was correctly applied. For all of you people out there who are concerned that this will happen again, I suggest that the police be allowed to handle the situation sooner rather than after the fact.

This is America and we are an entitled group of people. WE feel it is our right to … For some it is to protest, rob and burn private property, for others it is trying to protect private property. When the police allow that to happen, the entitled masses will do what they feel is necessary. Defund the police, encourage vigilantism. There are always more armed citizens than there are protesters.
Tim

Morning, Tim!


My take is that it's mostly party loyalty. That your sentiments go the way they do demonstrates that your own party loyalty requires you to take the other side.

It seems almost universal in these politically charged events. Half the country takes one side and the other half the other side...

And the other half just doesn't really give a feck one way or the other. Three strangers died in Wisconsin because a black man died and white people rioted. And I'm supposed to take sides why? The cop that killed George Floyd is in jail. BLM succeeded and I don't think they owe any thanks to the rioters.

The entire sordid tale from "I can't breathe" to "not guilty" is stupid from its start to its finish.

Media theater meant to divide and control the viewing public.

...because losing one's life after throwing a plastic bag at a 17 year old trigger happy teen who happens to be illegally carrying an AR-15 and who traveled to another state looking for trouble is a misplaced emotion. That's really sick thinking.