Kyle Rittenhouse Trial

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(10-29-2021, 12:57 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Dude, no it's not.  You're standing in legal quicksand here.  It wouldn't matter if Rittenhouse traveled to Kenosha from Hong Kong, that has zero bearing on a claim of self defense.  



Again, no.  He has as much of a right to be there as absolutely anyone else who was there.  You don't get free reign to assault someone if they don't live in the area in which they're being assaulted.


You are correct, as they were the aggressors, not you.  Show me one piece of evidence that Rittenhouse initiated the physical confrontation(s).  We have reams of actual video showing the exact opposite.  You're being willfully blind to the facts here, dude.  Your position is one of pure emotion and is completely divorced from the law.

Let's say I travel to the Bay Area to join a counter protest for a cause I believe in.  I am armed, as I am legally allowed to be within the state of California.  Some protestors initiate a physical confrontation with me.  I attempt to flee the confrontation rather than fight.  They pursue me, while someone fires a hand gun behind me.  Then a guy catches up to me and attempts to rob me of my firearm.  I then shoot him to prevent this.  As I continue to attempt to flee, another protestor strikes me in the head and shoulder area with a skateboard.  While he continues attempts to strike me with a skateboard I shoot him.  Does my coming from the Los Angeles area to join a counter protest in the Bay Area have any bearing whatsoever on whether I was legally defending myself?  Absolutely, 100%, no!

Your position here is simply not a tenable one.  It's demonstrably false with a foundation constructed solely of irrelevancies.

Oh but it does. You just are okay with it. Let the shoe be on the other foot. I come to your house, start a fight with you in your yard, and then kill you and claim self defense when you were unarmed all because you threw something at me?! If politics weren't involved people would side with you over the guy who came to you and killed you. That is undeniable. I do have the right to come to you tho and go anywhere I want as you say, so are you saying that would be my right to have killed you?

We have to be careful what we accept as right just because it doesn't happen to us. One day it may. And big picture thinkers understand that. It's why slavery for example was "legal" but didn't make it right and thankfully people didn't just except it for too long (they did for over 200 years) as such when they knew if it was them they wouldn't.