(September 7, 2020 at 12:53 am)onlinebiker Wrote:(September 6, 2020 at 10:35 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: I don't know. I kind of see it like the Trayvon Martin case. Zimmerman seems to be a terrible person, and he shouldn't have been following Martin, but he broke no laws in doing so and was rightly found not guilty because it seems to have been a justifiable killing in self defense.
Whether Rittenhouse should have been there or not is really irrelevant to me just like in the Trayvon Martin case. I don't know about the first guy Rittenhouse shot and killed, but the next two that he shot seem to be completely justified based on the video that we have. Trying to attack a guy with a gun is suicide so I can't really feel sorry for the attackers getting shot. You don't have to just sit there and let someone bash your head in with a skateboard or kick you in the skull and maybe beat you to death after that. When he was attacked, he was in the process of running to the police to surrender.
There is a big difference.
Expectation.
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I carry a gun daily - and I do not have any expectation of having a violent confrontation that would neccessitate my use of my gun.
George Zimmerman had no expectation that Mr Martin would get violent and attack him. (He did - as proved by forensic evidence)
Going to a riot?
Ya think ya MIGHT run into a bit of shit?
Think - before you carry.
It's the right way to do it.
Fair enough. Maybe he shouldn't have been carrying a gun going into a riot. At the same time, I can understand the frustration of so many that the police are being told to stand down and let the rioters burn down cities and businesses, that young guys like this get to thinking that they have to do the police's job for them because the police are not allowed to do their job for political reasons or whatever.
I doubt the young man thought that the rioters would be suicidal and dumb enough to try to disarm him, though. It takes a special kind of stupid to try to disarm someone like that. And even if he did think there was a good chance something like this could happen, that still shouldn't matter when it comes to the law I don't think. He either rightfully defended himself, or he broke the law and had no right to fire those shots. He appeared to be acting lawfully, at least in the video that I saw.
