"The mere presence of an openly carried firearm is essentially a threat" Context matters. WI is an open carry state & Kyle was amongst 100's of people who were similarly armed. He was no more conspicuous than everyone else.
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Open carry is beyond ridiculous. Just a recipe for disaster and escalation and why he ended up killing two people.
aug 29, 2025, 6:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Those guys could have always just not attacked him.
aug 29, 2025, 6:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, they shouldn't have done. A lot of things that happened, should not have. But they're dead now and Rittenhouse is a far right posterboy capitalising on the fact that he got away with murder.
aug 29, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
At least you concede that they should not have attacked him. That was the entire foundation of his claim of self-defense being accepted, and the jury determining that he did not commit the crime of murder.
aug 29, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Lawful self defense isn't murder.
aug 29, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
That doesn't invalidate my previous post. Why are you relieving Rosenbaum of any & all culpability? When Rosenbaum attacked Kyle, he was running to extinguish a car fire. A fact that ADA Binger acknowledged. How are you justifying the unprovoked attack on Kyle by Rosenbaum?
aug 29, 2025, 6:31 pm • 0 0 • view