10-28-2021, 01:46 PM
(10-28-2021, 12:42 PM)jj22 Wrote: Not to get involved in this debate between the two of you, but for me it's important because of the argument of standing your ground. Standing your ground means your home your street your neighborhood. You can't go looking for trouble (in my opinion), then claim standing your ground. Ideally as a parent, I'd argue he had no business involved in that mess anyway.
You're not interrupting, Dill just entered the chat.
To your point I would raise the same question that I asked Dill, would it be better if he hadn't crossed states lines and instead came from a town in Wisconsin over 400 miles away from Kenosha? I understand your point, I feel the same way when I see rioters, both left and right leaning, in other scenarios. One of the people convicted of firebombing a police station in Minneapolis came from Brainard, which is over a 100 miles away. Yet I don't recall the same outrage at this, much farther distance. In any event, while I understand your point we live in a country in which our freedom of movement is guaranteed. There is nothing illegal about traveling to another state or city to protest or counter protest. In fact, that happens all the time.
Quote:When do we draw the line for standing your ground. Can I come to your place (state, home, street), involve myself in something that doesn't involve me, and then kill you and claim I am "standing my ground". Ideally the message would be (if politics wasn't involved), mind ya own business and you wouldn't have gotten into this trouble.
Ideally, sure. But, again, traveling to another area to protest or counter protest is not illegal, nor should it be.
Quote:But that common sense is out the window.
On both sides, I'd agree.
