08-29-2020, 11:29 AM
(08-29-2020, 08:36 AM)GMDino Wrote: Here's an idea:
Take a gun to a neighboring state. Tell the police, when they thank you for being there to help them, that you are going to defend a random building. Then when someone else who is legally carrying a weapon asks what you are doing argue with them and shoot them.
Well, your silly example includes the police knowing that the gun was brought against state lines, which I doubt was a piece of volunteered information. Also, your description of the events is contradicted by someone who was actually there and not involved.
Quote:Or go inside a bank to help the security guards and do the same.
Again, this is just silly and not at all relevant to what we are discussing.
Quote:The guy was looking for trouble and found it then cried self defense. Just like all the other cowards who play cop and end up scared and kill someone because they are actually prepared to do the job.
Again, you appear to have a peculiar insight into this kid's mind that no one else seems to possess. Your last sentence makes no sense but I'll respond as I thin you intended. The kid was being chased by an angry mob. Someone fired a gun behind him. You're going to tell me you wouldn't fear for your life in such a scenario? I know you probably think you'd be very tough and brave in such a situation but it's quit e a different story to actually be in such a situation. Also, please don't obfuscate with an answer like "I wouldn't put myself in that situation". What you would or would not so to begin with is not the point, it's what you would think and do in the scenario depicted.
Quote:In this case I am sad. Sad for the kid who went down that path, sad that we live in a country where there is a path that says carrying a gun makes you tough and sad that people are defending him as if he did nothing wrong other than be attacked when he put himself in that spot because he wanted to "defend" something. The only way to defend something is if it is being attacked.
I'm pretty sure all the looted and burned businesses in the area were attacked. All the evidence available show the Rittenhouse was attacked. So, they seem to have met your criteria for defense.
