• DMBFFF@lemmy.world
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    partially because he got into legal hassles for using an AR-15 to defend himself against people who wanted to harm him.

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      My guy, he crossed state lines with a firearm that wasn’t his, to go to a protest where the only people injured and killed were by his trigger finger because he put himself that situation. That’s not defending yourself. He’s functionally a home invader crying over the dead body of the homeowner he killed because the homeowner brandished a skateboard.

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        7 months ago

        No, no, his friend bought him the gun because he couldn’t buy it himself. But somehow that wasn’t a straw purchase.

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        He’s functionally a home invader crying over the dead body of the homeowner he killed because the homeowner brandished a skateboard.

        poor analogy.

        Home invaders want to rob and those in the homes are innocent victims, and it was a glock, not a skateboard.

        I have little tolerance for looters and vandals, some of whom might be wp:agent provocateurs.

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            He’s referencing Gaige Grosskreutz who had a Glock. Anthony Huber was the one who attempted to use a skateboard as a bludgeon. Joseph Rosenbaum attempted to take Rittenhouse’s rifle after he had tried to distance himself.

            https://youtu.be/GrVKqTCdM-A

            Grosskreutz was hit in the arm and testified to aiming his pistol at Rittenhouse during the televised trial.

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      I get what you’re TRYING to say, but you’re failing.

      He crossed state lines, and attempted to intimidate folks who were protesting while being non-white. How dare they! (/S…)

      He was happily intimidating people by larping as an operator, and then he started getting moved on, (by the people who were growing less intimidated by him), tried to remove him, and especially, remove his weapon. He didn’t need to be there.

      Because he brought a fucking rifle to a protest where people are GONNA disagree, he turned a conflict into a tragedy. In his mind, he was just having fun intimidating minorities, but then shit got real, and he “had to defend himself”. Instead of leaving, his only option was lethal force right??? Of course he couldn’t have moved back about 100 yards to be surrounded by very sympathetic cops…

      Sure, he probably did have a flash of fear when folks tried to take his gun, and decided to defend himself. (In the sense that if you are holding a lethal weapon, you CANNOT allow someone to take it from you. Even though he shouldn’t have had it at all…as his having it predicated the entire engagement) But the whole way he got there, the whole motivation to be there was to intimidate people, hoping that holding a gun would make him untouchable.

      He is a murderer, he either premeditated killing, or at least premeditated being OK with killing. At a protest. Where there were already police. At the very minimum he showed up to use his race, his weapon, and his political alignment to intimidate, and that’s fucked up all on its own.

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      Fuck off. He went out of his way to Cross state lines just to shoot someone. Then, he murdered someone in cold blood. Pathetic that people like you are still sucking his Dick…