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In Reply to: Regarding Rittenhouse, that's a really tough call posted by jdaniel@jps.net on November 17, 2021 at 09:29:04:
I don't believe he should be afforded a self defense defense. He wasn't old enough to possess the weapon and he was where he wasn't supposed to be. Seems he has lied to everybody and I wouldn't believe a single word of his testimony.
Far as I'm concerned he was as at least as much a criminal as the rioters he went to war with.
All that said, from what I've seen and read, I think manslaughter and aggravated assault should be to top charges.
If that last guy he shot, the guy taking out a gun, had shot and killed Rittenhouse instead I would go for manslaughter for him too. None of the guys should get a self defense defense.
I like your boxing ring analogy - all these folks stepped into it. I was a big rumble - no one went there to kill and everyone voluntarily entered the fight. No place for a self defense defense or first degree murder charges (a least not in this situation unlike that Portland shooting).
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- Shouldn't be tough but I think it will be - Goober58 11/17/2110:21:03 11/17/21 (15)
- "no one went there to kill" - seems hard to believe. - G Squared 11:08:54 11/17/21 (8)
- Someone should have told the kid a long time ago that he's not soldier of fortune material. Nt - jdaniel@jps.net 11:56:13 11/17/21 (0)
- I'm ambivalent. - ghost of olddude55 11:24:01 11/17/21 (6)
- Yes and no..... He had several relatives that lived near Kenosha.... - TWB 11:39:37 11/17/21 (5)
- He'd be alive because he wouldn't have been taking on those guys if he didn't have the gun - Dave_K 13:01:06 11/18/21 (1)
- Too true. nt. - MWE 13:20:28 11/18/21 (0)
- Well, maybe. - ghost of olddude55 11:46:55 11/17/21 (2)
- Well I did watch quite a bit of the proceedings on..... - TWB 11:57:51 11/17/21 (1)
- Exactly. - ghost of olddude55 12:11:55 11/17/21 (0)
- RE: Shouldn't be tough but I think it will be - BillH 10:41:43 11/17/21 (4)
- All the talk about crappy parenting - Goober58 10:57:00 11/17/21 (3)
- RE: All the talk about crappy parenting - dark_dave56 04:49:10 11/18/21 (0)
- "We've become a crock of imbeciles"...LOL! so says one of.... - TWB 11:17:41 11/17/21 (0)
- Agreed - G Squared 11:15:16 11/17/21 (0)
- "he was where he wasn't supposed to be"? - Tre' 10:28:48 11/17/21 (0)