Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty. That doesn’t mean he’s morally innocent.

Since the start of the trial, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Johnny Cash’s “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town.” The haunting ballad, released in 1958 but apparently timeless, tells the story of a young cowboy named Billy Joe who grows restless on the farm. His mother pleads with him to leave his gun at home. He laughs, kisses her and says, “Your Billy Joe’s a man.”

He assures her he’d never shoot without a cause. Then Billy Joe gets in a bar fight when a dusty cowpoke laughs at him. Filled with rage, he reaches for his gun to draw. But the stranger fires first. As a crowd gathers, they wonder at the young man’s final words: “Don’t take your guns to town.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...house-verdict-opinion-not-innocent-shootings/
 
BidenPresident said:
That said, a series of decisions by Judge Bruce E. Schroeder may have tipped the scales in Rittenhouse’s favor. He forbade the prosecution from calling the three men Rittenhouse shot “victims.” The judge called it a “loaded term” and said they should be called “decedents” or “complaining witnesses.”

More significantly, Schroeder blocked prosecutors from introducing three pieces of evidence that illustrated the trigger-happy defendant’s propensity for violence. A video recorded 15 days before the bloodshed in Kenosha shows Rittenhouse lamenting that he didn’t have his gun as he watched what he believed were shoplifters exiting a CVS store. “Bro, I wish I had my [expletive] AR,” he says. “I’d start shooting rounds at them.”
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I respond to this only to say to the bolded…the way the jury saw it the deceased weren’t “victims.” It appears, at least as how the jury saw it, they were killed in the act of being the aggressors. So on that point at least, and in hindsight, the judge seems to have ruled correctly. Calling them “victims” would have meant that Rittenhouse was being labeled as guilty from the start.
 
leaningright said:
I respond to this only to say to the bolded…the way the jury saw it the deceased weren’t “victims.” It appears, at least as how the jury saw it, they were killed in the act of being the aggressors. So on that point at least, and in hindsight, the judge seems to have ruled correctly. Calling them “victims” would have meant that Rittenhouse was being labeled as guilty from the start.
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mistrial
 
Grosskreutz, now 27, testified that he was in Kenosha as a legal observer for the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU’s Wisconsin chapter put out a statement the day before Rittenhouse’s shooting spree saying the Democratic governor’s deployment of the National Guard to Kenosha, amid mass protests, was “unnecessary.
 
BidenPresident said:
Prosecutor Thomas Binger said in his closing argument at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial: “You can’t claim self-defense for a danger that you create.”
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What danger did Rittenhouse create? Did he create the riot? Did he egg on or incite those rioting to do so? What danger did Rittenhouse create?
 
BidenPresident said:
Grosskreutz, now 27, testified that he was in Kenosha as a legal observer for the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU’s Wisconsin chapter put out a statement the day before Rittenhouse’s shooting spree saying the Democratic governor’s deployment of the National Guard to Kenosha, amid mass protests, was “unnecessary.
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that was obviously a lie.

will you ever stop lying?
 
This saga disproves the old saw that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. For those who foolishly cry “defund the police,” this mess should serve as the latest proofpoint for why there’s an overwhelming public interest in trained, uniformed officers keeping the peace — instead of armed, out-of-town vigilantes.

Rittenhouse has already become a folk hero on the radical right, and the acquittal will fuel that false narrative. What’s scariest about Friday’s verdict is that it will embolden other Billy Joes and Gaiges and Kyles to take their guns to town. In doing so, they’ll put themselves — and all of us — at risk.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...house-verdict-opinion-not-innocent-shootings/
 
BidenPresident said:
Grosskreutz, now 27, testified that he was in Kenosha as a legal observer for the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU’s Wisconsin chapter put out a statement the day before Rittenhouse’s shooting spree saying the Democratic governor’s deployment of the National Guard to Kenosha, amid mass protests, was “unnecessary.
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Okay, he shouldn't have been there either by the standard applied by those opposed to the Rittenhouse verdict. But he was. He was also armed, like Rittenhouse, but with a concealed pistol that he was illegally carrying (his permit was expired).
 
BidenPresident said:
This saga disproves the old saw that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. For those who foolishly cry “defund the police,” this mess should serve as the latest proofpoint for why there’s an overwhelming public interest in trained, uniformed officers keeping the peace — instead of armed, out-of-town vigilantes.

Rittenhouse has already become a folk hero on the radical right, and the acquittal will fuel that false narrative. What’s scariest about Friday’s verdict is that it will embolden other Billy Joes and Gaiges and Kyles to take their guns to town. In doing so, they’ll put themselves — and all of us — at risk.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...house-verdict-opinion-not-innocent-shootings/
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no it won't. you're a buffoon.
 
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