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In Reply to: RE: A travesty of justice posted by ornery on November 19, 2021 at 14:52:42:
Almost anyone could have shot and killed Rittenhouse that evening and snippets of video would have justified the killing. That dude with a handgun could have blasted him and walked away without any charges (provided he was a legal possessor of guns).When he was running away from the initial shooting people could reasonably believe they were chasing a murderer and after he fell and lifted the weapon he was fair game to be shot by anyone who believed he was a fleeing killer getting ready to kill others.
I'm not arguing he wasn't not guilty - I believe the jury reached the correct verdict given the law. Those same exact laws would have protected any number of people who killed Rittenhouse - say if the guy busted his head open with his boots, or if the guy with the skate board broke his neck. They too would have a similar defense.
They are just stupid laws.
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- Sure - Goober58 16:03:09 11/19/21 (27)
- Aren't you all missing the point - John_the_Scot 00:22:18 11/20/21 (19)
- A sizable % of inmates here apparently think if we'd all walk around with guns we'd be safer. - Rick W 09:09:19 11/20/21 (7)
- RE: A sizable % of inmates here apparently think if we'd all walk around with guns we'd be safer. - dean_martin 10:55:36 11/20/21 (0)
- Rural vs Urban philosophies - jdaniel@jps.net 10:37:16 11/20/21 (1)
- RE: This was a rural situation - ornery 09:00:39 11/21/21 (0)
- Too true, and too sad and depressing. More and more, I'm glad that... - MWE 10:19:33 11/20/21 (1)
- RE: Too true - Story 10:21:04 11/20/21 (0)
- RE: A sizable % of inmates here are realists - Wojciech 09:45:37 11/20/21 (1)
- RE: A sizable % of inmates here are realists - dark_dave56 11:19:00 11/20/21 (0)
- RE: Aren't you all missing the point - BillH 06:06:33 11/20/21 (0)
- RE: Aren't you all missing the point - ornery 05:36:54 11/20/21 (6)
- The only real point is that the idiot kid never should've been there in the first place. nt - MWE 10:31:47 11/20/21 (5)
- RE: The adults should've been responsible, the kid is way downstream - ornery 09:07:58 11/21/21 (4)
- RE: The adults should've been responsible, the kid is way downstream - rivervalley817 09:46:58 11/21/21 (3)
- RE: The adults should've been responsible, the kid is way downstream - Inmate51 10:16:53 11/21/21 (0)
- RE: The adults should've been responsible, the kid is way downstream - ornery 09:55:35 11/21/21 (1)
- RE: The adults should've been responsible, the kid is way downstream - rivervalley817 10:22:13 11/21/21 (0)
- Forget it! - JDK 02:11:39 11/20/21 (2)
- It doesn't make sense in America either. - srdavis2000 06:23:51 11/20/21 (1)
- RE: It doesn't make sense in America either. - Story 06:27:05 11/20/21 (0)
- Could have, could have, could have - Inmate51 16:25:05 11/19/21 (2)
- RE: Could have, could have, could have - The Dill 18:34:29 11/19/21 (0)
- Now will - Goober58 18:06:23 11/19/21 (0)
- RE: Sure - ornery 16:07:31 11/19/21 (3)
- RE: Sure - Goober58 17:57:07 11/19/21 (2)
- "Responsible gun owners are embarrassed by this kind of outcome"--THANK YOU! - dark_dave56 06:10:42 11/20/21 (0)
- RE: Sure - ornery 18:32:15 11/19/21 (0)