RE: Kyle Rittenhouse Trial
November 13, 2021 at 2:10 am
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2021 at 2:21 am by Fake Messiah.)
One guy was running in the middle of the crowded street with a rifle which scared some people, so some tried to do something and got killed. Two people got killed and can not testify, one got wounded but had a gun and therefore he "incriminated" himself because he ran with a gun - it seems that there could never be a good guy with a gun.
I guess what is most disturbing (besides killing two people) is that people should tolerate other heavily armed people in the street as if there is nothing unusual going on. When you see someone running with a rifle in the crowded street, you shouldn't look at it differently than someone pushing a stroller or eating a bagel.
Of course, it was stupid of them to just try to take away a rifle from an armed person, but what do they know. They are civilians.
Is Rittenhouse guilty? It seems he was looking for trouble. If I take "my daddy's gun" and start waving with it in the theater before the movie begins, I am looking for trouble, let alone if I do the same with a rifle in a street full of people.
I guess what is most disturbing (besides killing two people) is that people should tolerate other heavily armed people in the street as if there is nothing unusual going on. When you see someone running with a rifle in the crowded street, you shouldn't look at it differently than someone pushing a stroller or eating a bagel.
Of course, it was stupid of them to just try to take away a rifle from an armed person, but what do they know. They are civilians.
Is Rittenhouse guilty? It seems he was looking for trouble. If I take "my daddy's gun" and start waving with it in the theater before the movie begins, I am looking for trouble, let alone if I do the same with a rifle in a street full of people.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
