• @kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52•23 days ago

    To me, Kyle Rittenhouse trial has to be the most American thing ever, grabbing your assault rifle and heading into a heated situation for no reason whatsoever than that predictably resulting in a death and getting off scott free, that’s something that can only happen in the USA

    • @shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8•23 days ago

      Everything that led up to the killings was fucking heinous, but in the end, a jury of his peers saw the video evidence and deemed it self defense. I’ve watched the videos and I agree.

      “He shouldn’t have been there.”, isn’t a legal doctrine. Still, I’m surprised the prosecutor couldn’t have found some angle there. Isn’t there some, “looking for a fight” idea?

      If I go down to my MAGA neighbor’s house, kick on his door, talk shit (non-physically threatening shit) and he attacks me, I wouldn’t feel too safe shooting him. IANAL, but I know the prosecutors were, so I have to bow to their professional judgement.

      And whatever happened to his mom or uncle or whoever buying him a gun? I know it was across state lines, but still, the purchase in itself was legal, and you can certainly gift a gun. There was a law clearly broken there, I think Rittenhouse being underage in that state for that weapon? Why wasn’t the purchaser hung from the fucking rafters?!

      What is perhaps more heinous is that the little fucker is able to milk his notoriety. He should be shunned by both the anti-gun and pro-gun crowd, no one should give two shits to hear him speak. (He is shunned among liberal gun nuts like me.)

      • ZagorathEnglish
        5•23 days ago

        He is shunned among liberal gun nuts like me

        Sorry, but, umm…you are aware that “gun nut” is not a compliment, right? Nor a neutral term. It’s pretty directly an insult towards people who oppose common sense gun regulation à la Australia. Because they are “nuts”, meaning crazy.

      • @GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2•23 days ago

        What is perhaps more heinous is that the little fucker is able to milk his notoriety

        I think we can rest easy on that. Every time you hear about him now it’s just a laughingstock. I don’t think he’s in a great financial situation, and has completely failed at public appearances so he isn’t going to get political power. He’s more of a painted pony that the repubs can trot out every now and then.