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That's rich, trying to make exercising one right at a gathering of people exercising another right seem like a bad thing.
by dontcare007 5y ago
That's rich, trying to make exercising one right at a gathering of people exercising another right seem like a bad thing.
- millzlane 5y agoI think it's the fact that he went to that civil rights protest with a weapon and the idea of policing the protestors that was probably a bad thing. Most responsible gun owners would argue that he shouldn't have even been there with weapons. No one is attacking the exercising of one's right. They're pointing out the poor decision making of rittenhouse. It would be no different than showing up to a freedom rally/protest with weapons and the idea to police the area.
- fastball 5y agoIt was a riot.
- Spivak 5y agoLegal right or not, showing up to a protest with weapons is a show of force, intimidation, and in my view enough threat to life to justify self-defense in basically any case where the armed person does basically anything other than stand like a statue. Like we're not 6 years old, surely we're not so naive to believe "I'm not shoooting youuu. I'm not shooooting youuuu" is somehow peaceful.
- bavell 5y agoIt was a riot, not a protest. The kid was an idiot for bringing a firearm, just like the idiots in the mob who chased a kid with a firearm.
- Spivak 5y agoFine, sure. Nothing about my point changes though. Legal or not bringing a weapon to a riot...
- zionic 5y ago>Legal or not bringing a weapon to a riot... What's your point exactly? If more people had done so there wouldn't be a riot. Honestly it's a condemnation of our degraded society that so few show up to defend our cities and towns from this kind of mob violence.