Kyle Rittenhouse question

How is the first killing at all questionable? Rittenhouse was clearly fleeing, and Rosenbaum the attacker was advancing on him screaming threats.

I think this is wishful thinking.

There is no evidence that Rittenhouse intended to kill anyone.

Painting him as a a patriotic defender is ridiculous. Painting him as a bloodthirsty killer is equally ridiculous.

He was a pathetic clueless kid with a gun, and the people who attacked him are idiots. Attacking someone who has an assault rifle with a skate isn't heroic. It is fantastically dumb.

There is no way this was murder. Everyone involved was acting idiotically and predictably people got killed.

My take:

If you understand that the pursuers are only trying to apprehend you, then you have no right to fire in self defense.

If you have a reasonable belief that the pursuers mean to murder you, then you have the right to fire in self defense, although if you kill a police officer under such circumstances you will end up needing to convince a jury that the police officer was actually trying to murder you.

I'm not really asking about whether you think he is guilty or innocent, more to the question of can the first shooting be murder but the subsequent one be self defense. That is what was reported and I thought once you commit murder (if it is so found) that all subsequent actions would be considered criminal as well.

The implication is that after this point it's open season on the kid and that anyone is free to attack him?

I don't think that makes sense. Police aren't allowed to shoot a suspect unless she presents an immediate danger... You are never given free reign to assult someone.

He wasn't fleeing from committing a crime. Everything that happened was caught on tape. he killed those boys in self defense. That child molester told him that he was going to kill him and then grabbed his gun. That other criminal tried to murder him. Kyle Rittenhouse is innocent and it's ridiculous that this even went to trial. Joe Biden and the media have called him a white supremacist and the media has bald faced lied about him. Just like they did about that boy from Kentucky with the MAGA hat. This is why nobody trusts the media. Can someone explain to me how a white boy shooting 3 other white boys makes him a white supremacist? Kyle Rittenhouse should be allowed to sue every news channel that lied about him as well as sue the Biden administration for defamation. I got banned off from facebook just because I wrote the words "Kyle Rittenhouse is a American hero". That's all I wrote and I got banned. Becuase the social media companies are all communists. I wish I could cook this poor boy some good food. Made me tear up when I saw him crying. A teenage boy doesn't deserve to have his life ruined because it helps the rich democrats, that's evil. And if you look around on social media, you will see all these people lying about this even though the facts have been proven. None of these people will admit that they were wrong and that Kyle is innocent.

The democrat prosecutor also violated the constitution by trying to use kyle's right to remain silent against him. I've never seen a bigger scumbag lawyer and I've seen a lot! The man was harrasing a teenager on stand, badgering the witness and asking him dumb questions like why he was running away from a fire. These people are trying to make it so that if a communist points a gun at you, you are just supossed to let them murder you without fighting back. That's what happened in Missouri with that couple defending thier home against rioters

I find it difficult to follow the trial. The statements are always changing, and I wish I could offer an opinion but it seems so scrambled right now.

This "kid" may or may not be found guilty of murder, but you'd have to admit, he is monumentally screwed. There's no going back after the knowledge of killing two people and wounding a third. To me, the failings of his parents, schools, friends and society has allowed this happen.

He'll need severe psychiatric help the rest of his life. He shouldn't ever be trusted to make his own decisions ever again and be placed under Conservatorship. Since he is only 18, he should be confined to an institution at least for five years, to allow his brain to process his actions and rehabilitate his thought patterns.

Sad, no matter how the verdict goes.

Only if he is unjustly convicted. Hopefully that will not happen.



I'm fine with this being provided so long as it is voluntary.

Progressives should be forced to pay all the costs.



Nonsense.

Why do progressives always want to violate people's civil liberties?

He killed two people and wounded a third.

That ain't normal.

It is perfectly normal for anyone who defends themselves from a progressive lynch mob.

You are ignoring the psychological impact of killing another human.

I am fine with providing him with treatment if he wants. And I'm fine with making progressives pay all the bills for his treatment.

What you proposed would revictimize him all over again.

If you're willing to call him a victim, that's all the more reason he needs professional psychiatric rehabilitation.

Voluntary, fine.

Your proposal to forcibly institutionalize him is a form of abuse that would revictimize him.

He killed two people and wounded a third. He will never walk away from that. To not recognize that is failing him all over again.

Where did you get the idea that I don't recognize that? I merely reject the idea of revictimizing him all over again.

Let's put it this way: Do you think that all rape victims should be automatically committed to mental institutions and never be trusted to make their own decisions again?

Or do you think that such a policy would revictimize rape victims all over again?