Posted on 11/12/2021 3:19:48 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Sometimes the trees get in the way of seeing the forest. In the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, a narrow view of the law of self-defense could provide an acquittal despite the big picture — his outrageously poor judgment in bringing a semi-automatic rifle to a protest.
The key issue will be the reasonableness of Rittenhouse’s belief.
Rittenhouse has been charged with homicide and other crimes relating to his conduct during a night of civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020. Protesters had taken to the streets following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man. Rittenhouse testified Wednesday that he went to the scene only to protect property and offer first aid. It seems like those tasks could have been accomplished with nothing more than his physical presence and a medical bag. Instead, Rittenhouse openly carried an AR-style semi-automatic rifle.
Rittenhouse is charged with shooting and killing two men and wounding another. In addition, he is charged with reckless endangerment for firing his weapon at someone allegedly while a reporter stood close by and for illegal possession of a firearm because he was under the age of 18 at the time.
Rittenhouse claims he was acting in self-defense when he fired all of the shots. His guilt will turn on the reasonableness of his conduct that night. Apparently, it never occurred to him that in a country that has experienced mass shootings on a regular basis, on a night when there was chaos in the streets, someone might mistake him for an active shooter and try to stop him.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Provoking? What crap, seeing a weapon should deescalate things unless you are too stupid to realize you can be shot.
If someone seeing you carrying a weapon provokes that person to attack you, that BOLSTERS your justification for shooting them in any rational person’s minds.
“she was raped because she was wearing that short skirt”
same wrong argument.
if bad judgment was criminal the prisons would be full of LEFTIEs
How about the “outrageously poor judgment” of the “protesters’ who “took to the streets” and burned down a town to protest a plainly-justified police shooting.
Saw it was MSNBC and quit reading…
MSNBC knows quite a lot about stories that don’t quite add up.
YEA YEA WE GET IT. WHITE CONSERVATIVES ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST THE PEDOS AND THUGS AND JUNKIES SOROS PAID TO TEAR UP CITIES AND BURN DOWN BUSINESSES.
ONLY COMMIES AND THEIR THUGS ARE ALLOWED TO INTENTIONALLY MURDER COPS AND INNOCENT PEOPLE.
Didn’t Crookshank the medic, or whatever his name was, bring a gun too? Hmmm…..
Anyone who attacks an armed individual simply because they are armed deserves the consequences.
quote “his outrageously poor judgment in bringing a semi-automatic rifle to a protest”
um.. you mean is very prudent judgement to exercise his constitutional right to bear arms during a riot which most likely saved his life!
How about the “outrageously poor judgment” of the people who attacked Kyle?
The bad guys bring their guns.
We would NOT be having this trial or discussion had the Kenosha Police Department not been told to Stand Down and allow the Soros/DNC inspired Communists of BLM and ANTIFA to RIOT, LOOT, BURN and wreak havoc in Kenosha to begin with.
The Mayor, Police Chief, City Council and DA of that community are fully responsible in their DERELICTION OF DUTY and deserve to be held to full account for creating the situation where ordinary citizens were put into the position of having to protect their community.
The media is protecting a pedophile, racist,and typical SJW warrior.
Math is not your strong point.
“she was raped because she was wearing that short skirt”
same wrong argument.”
BINGO!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.