Recent content by Aegix Drakan

Months ago, I decided "you know, the escapist forums no not bring me joy, only frustration, I should just stop visiting". And you know what, my mood improved considerably. Today, I got morbidly curious and came back. And immediately remember why I left. Same as usual. People generally in...

Duly noted, Ultron. Alright. Assuming I'm skateboard guy... I live in a country where mass shootings happen regularly. It's typically perpetuated by angry disgruntled white people with rifles. It's often right wingers or people adjacent to them. I'm at a protest against police brutality...

You know, you joked earlier about preferring to be called a sociopath....But when you say extremely callous things like this, it's hard not to think that about you. Right because he CLEARLY spent all of his ammo in the first murder, and was no further threat to anyone el- Oh woops, nope, he...

Legal Precedent is a thing. If you don't prosecute the guy coming in from a few states over using an illegal gun, putting himself deliberately into a dangerous situation, and then proceeding to get spooked, and kill someone, then run away and proceed to kill another person, THEN flee back to...

It's always unfortunate when someone makes a very good point, but uses one wrong word or phrase and it allows someone to latch onto it with an "AHA!!! and completely ignore the rest of their point.

Fixed that for you.

The guy he shot didn't HAVE a gun, though.

So, if one of the protestors had reacted by shooting Rittenhouse because they were spooked by the gunshot and thought it was him, that would be acceptable, because they can't stop time, astrally project and determine if the shot came from him or not either? Because, hey, every single mass...

This thread continues to disappoint. Your quoted tweet says it was fired in the air. that's not being shot AT. Would the protestors be at fault for returning fire after being shot at? Because the shot was in the air. No one knows where it came from. If someone fires a shot into the air...

From what I understand, the state this shooting took place in isn't a stand your ground state, so the shooter had a duty to retreat, which he did not, making him shooting the first person NOT self defense, at the very least. But yea in a stand your ground state, he would likely get away scot free.

The cops DID say that when one of them threw BACK the tear gas that it was "assault with a deadly weapon" so, according to the police themselves, they are using a "lethal weapon" on the protestors, ergo, they have the right to self defense! ;)

From what we know so far, probably not self defense, unless "someone threw something close to me in a politically charged situation that I deliberately put myself in" counts as "needing to kill in self defense", in which case a lot of the protestors have those grounds as well. Perhaps the...

So, basically, best case scenario: Dude murders a guy, then both he and the protestors feared for their lives, and both took action, leading to another death because the guy had a gun and it made it easiwer for him to act when he felt endangered. Even in this best case scenario, the first...

What's important is what the people were thinking (or what a reasonable person would be thinking in that situation). If they thought that the man with the gun who had already shot one of them was going to kill more of them, or leave then go kill other people, then it could be considered...

*pinches between eyes and sighs* Counter example: "If a terrorist kills someone with a bomb/plane/van, and is being pursued by cops, should he just...what, accept death?" This kid could have, oh I don't know, turned himself in to police afterwards instead of hopping back across the border...