It wasn't illegal, though.
He was 17. He did not have a license for that gun, nor would he have qualified for it, nevermind the open carry license because he was under-age. And that's before we get into the laws about transporting firearms across state lines.
I'm not sure why you think this says anything positive about you.
That's the gist I got from your last post, especially by saying "The day we excuse or explain away this kind of behavior, we set a dangerous precedent" and " people like Rittenhouse need to be held accountable for their actions and not expunged..."
If we want to give him the benefit of the doubt (as the law would do), I'd say that he's going there to protect his family or friends, to protect the ideals that he believes in, or perhaps to flex and LARP like the people he sees in social media. You know, all the pictures of black guys standing around with guns, protecting their shops or whatnot.
It looks like the gun was owned by a friend of his. The friend was the one you see with him in some of the clips interviewing him, the guns are his and he's under his supervision. What I don't understand is how he got separated and found himself alone surrounded by protesters. Look I don't want to keep this shit up because there aren't enough details besides people googling state laws online and a lot of assumptions. At least I got a few clips of the kid, he seemed harmless. Besides the gun, of course, but I'm desensitized to M16s and M4s, so it didn't matter to me.
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The guy killing multiple people is sort of easier to focus on, I'd imagine.
You know what's funny about this here is that it really lends credence to the whole "cops wanted this to happen and set it up for this result". Like, that curfew was specifically set up so they could blanket arrest any protestors out after it kicked on, and if there's one thing this past year has proven is that police love any opportunity to crack some skulls. Except here, it seems, they just stood back on the sidelines (and if that whole "Rittenhouse ran to a line a riot officers" thing turns out true) close enough to the action that they could have charged in and started arresting all of the curfew violators, but that wasn't going on.
Yes, that's the problem.
Would have been even better if the cops weren't a bunch of bloodthirsty, incompetent class traitors.
Duly noted, Ultron.
Alright.
I don't think they planned on arresting everyone. It was a medium-sized town, I'd imagine their entire police force was out and about, they didn't have the manpower to handle it.
>class traitors
Oh, can you give me some more info on this? Maybe some sauce? I didn't know that. This happened during the 4th night of protests in the city, yeah? When did they get NG?
Okay sure. That seems plausible right at the moment he shoots somebody in the head.
Yup, Eac posted about on pg4 of the original thread, here's an artile about it:
Protect his family and friends from violence 20 miles away? Was this a riot or a category 3 hurricane?
Not his job or his right. One can't simply conscript oneself and take up arms for their personal beliefs when they're in no immediate danger.
I'll buy LARPing, more than likely the case, but I doubt he was inspired by any "black guys" he saw on social media; nice jab though.
Not saying he intended to kill people (as in outright murder,) but he was very much prepared to do so, he did so, and it wasn't his place or right.
Yeah, perhaps he had family and friends in Kenosha. Perhaps they even invited him.
I think it's every American's constitutionally protected right to bear arms and defend what they believe in, regardless of whether or not one is personally in danger. It's more complicated than that, of course, but that's the gist of it.
I'm not disputing that, just like I'm not disputing that hundreds of thousands of law-abiding citizens with weapon permits, and who carry guns on their person every day are also prepared to use their weapons, should the need arise. Just like the people pictured above were prepared to use their weapons.
