Kyle Rittenhouse Trial

[Dill]

(11-16-2021, 06:03 PM)Arturo Bandini Wrote: Self Defense for who ?

Conservatives want to keep the right to kill whoever they call a threat by their own standards but this is not a right who is given to anyone else.

When Amaury Arbery tried to self defense himself, he was killed. 

That's what is on line here. 

Well, this is what is so effed up about the confluence of "gun rights" and the right to self defense in the U.S.

The shooter.Travis McMichael, pled self defense in the Arbery case, because Arbery tried to take his gun away. 

The difference between this and the Ritternhouse case is that R was chased, whereas McMichael was doing the chasing.

The US has been changing over the last 30 years under NRA influence. The NRA has militarized gun culture, which used to be
mainly about hunting. With that has come more guns and more shootings and a powerful lobby to push back efforts
to regulate them.  

I am amazed so many now want to carry weapons, both open and concealed. 

And with the boom in military style weapons and push back against regulations has come a heightened sense of entitlement
regarding their use. Thousands of guys out there now ready to see a "threat" which requires "self defense." 

This kind of thing likely fed the fantasies of 17-year old Kyle.  "Run to danger!"