ShooterTX said:
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ShooterTX said:
Porteroso said:
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Wangchung said:
Any speak of his travel to the riots means nothing. He has as much right to be there guarding against the rioters as the rioters had to be there rioting. Period. He had every right to use deadly force against a violent man threatening to kill him and chasing him, grabbing for his gun in his final moments. He had every right to defend himself from the man who tried to hit him in the head with a skateboard. He had every right to shoot the armed rioter who was aiming his pistol at him. The kid should walk.
No but he didn't have any reason to be there. Whether he had the right to be flaunting an AR he didn't own, in another state, was an interesting legal discussion, but the guy is an idiot who was looking for trouble. Trouble may have found him before he started his own, but he's an idiot for being there at all.
Edit: also wasn't he 17? Can we just agree that we wouldn't enjoy the results of a police force full of 17 year olds? That maybe policing should not be done by rando 17 year olds?
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The kid who was on site rendering first aid and volunteering to protect private property,... "didn't have any reason to be there"...
but the violent rioters who were destroying property, setting fires and attacking people.. they definitely should have been there and been protected from people like Rittenhouse??
What planet do you live on??
Rittenhouse was invited to be on that property by the owner of that private property.. the violent rioters who were committing crimes were the ones who had no reason to be there.
Didn't the owner deny asking him? So no he wasn't invited, and he was out amongst rioters with an AR. Yeah he's an idiot. Some of you may think he was a monk medic on the beaches of Normandy, sworn to nonviolence unless attacked, rendering aid to allies and Nazis with equal measure, but that's a little different from what happened. He should never have been where he was, alone, open carrying an AR. Absolutely stupid.
He was standing outside a car dealership, attempting to protect the building and cars from being destroyed when the first guy started chasing him around the parking lot. The guy was screaming at Rittenhouse, and threatening his life. Rittenhouse was running away from the guy and finally had to shoot him once it was clear that he wasn't going to escape.
Then the crowd began to gather around and yell at Rittenhouse, who got scared and ran down the street, towards the cops who were standing at the end of the street.
While he was running down the street, several of the rioters chased after him. One of them caught up to him and hit him in the back of the head with the skateboard, knocking Rittenhouse to the ground. Then they jumped him while he was on the ground. One of the scumbags who was trying to stomp his head into the ground was shot by Rittenhouse... another dead scumbag, and another public service.
Rittenhouse is still on the ground when another guy runs up on him, this time with a gun in his hand. When he points the gun at his head, Rittenhouse shot this scumbag in the arm.
Finally, Rittenhouse is able to get up and continues to run to the cops... who tell him to get off the streets and spray him with pepper spray.
So no... he wasn't "amongst the rioters with an AR" as you described it. He was not even on the street until he was trying to run to the cops for help. He was standing on private property, in an effort to defend that property from destruction. If the rioters had just walked down the street... nothing would have ever happened. Nothing did happen until the convicted pedophile began chasing Rittenhouse around the parking lot and threatening to kill Rittenhouse.
The people who should have never been there are the pedophile, the wife beater and the criminal with the handgun.... sadly, one of those scumbags survived the justified shootings.
You're somehow failing to recognize that he was not chased off the property he was trying to protect, he left on his own, and was barred from returning. All of this happened because he was not with his buddies, he was out amongst the rioters.
I didn't follow the trial enough to know why he decided to leave the dealership, but he was an idiot for doing so, and you seem to be lying about him being chased out of the dealership he was protecting.
The dealership owner is on the record stating that he never asked Rittenhouse to leave... so no, he was not chased off the dealership.
He left the dealership property because he was carrying a fire extinguisher, and was following the arsonists, and putting out the fires that they were attempting to start. They got pissed at him for stopping their riots, and then one of them, Rosenbaum, threatened him and started chasing him.
Go look at the video and the court records.
He did NOT get amongst the crowd, but was off the street, on the sidewalk area, putting out fires... literally putting out fires. Even the prosecution admits that just before the incident with Rosenbaum, Rittenhouse was literally putting out fires.
The prosecution case is that by putting out fires, Rittenhouse was instigating a violent confrontation with the rioters... so yeah.. let that sink in for a minute.... the prosecution is actually arguing that Rittenhouse should have let them riot and burn it all to the ground... is that really the kind of thing you want a DA to argue?? The DA is supposed to protect the CITIZENS of his community from the criminals, not defend the criminals from the heroes.
You are very much on the wrong side here.. you are on the side of the pedophiles and arsonists... go re-evaluate your life.
So following arsonists isn't getting out amongst the crowd?
You said this, which seems incorrect.
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He was standing outside a car dealership, attempting to protect the building and cars from being destroyed when the first guy started chasing him around the parking lot.
As you've corrected, he was chased into a different dealership, because he left the one he was supposed to be protecting. He was absolutely not in the parking lot of the dealership he was trying to protect, and chased out as you claimed.
He could have been on his knees performing a miracle, and he's an idiot for doing that with an AR on a sling, in the middle of a riot.
So your initial post was factually incorrect. So was your second.