Kyle Rittenhouse Trial

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(11-18-2021, 02:28 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Ida know...there is a romanticized idea about "shooting someone who deserves it" that floats around.  The holidays are really the only time I'm around my wife's family and they are evangelical rural folk who always seem to get around to two topics of conversation that they talk about in very glowing and positive terms:

#1 - This country is too soft on criminals and people should be executed via gunshot
#2 - How they'd all definitely shoot someone who broke into their house

I think you underestimate how, at least in bs-talk, people view the prospect of getting to shoot someone "who deserves it."  I know one person who shot someone in self defense and the view that he is almost lucky to have gotten the chance to do so is pretty interesting. 

So yeah, I think the ideation of self defense via justified shooting is right up there with winning the lottery and being famous as far as stuff people dream about.  For what it is worth I think for a lot of people Kyle Rittenhouse represents one of the new American dreams.

Remember the father in Texas who waited in the airport lobby, then shot the man who kidnapped and killed his son as Deputies walked him past there? Did it right on National TV, and was not convicted.