Posted on 08/26/2020 11:49:15 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
In this particular instance I think that He made a good point.
No one's arguing the right to be there -- the point is whether he had the sense NOT to be there.
Any defense training program you participate in has as its basic tenant avoiding confrontation if you can. This kid -- in spite of his Dwight Shrute hopes and dreams to be a volunteer sheriff's deputy -- was not a member of law enforcement. He was a person who did not live in the area who decided to go there and bring a weapon. This is offense, not defense. He had a right to be there. He didn't have a reason to be there -- unless he was looking for confrontation.
He got that.
Don't walk among a pride of lions and be surprised if you are attacked.
Yeah, sure. LOL.
“It’s a trap for Trump. Anything that happens will be blamed on Trump, and none of it on any democrat.”
I don’t see a grand jury indicting him. The video evidence shows him running away while being chased. He only resorts to firing when he is cornered or attacked.My WAG is the prosecution will claim he traveled to the site with his weapon for the specific purpose of killing someone.
That will be the "premeditated" hook they need for 1st degree murder.
he's seventeen, and seeing idiots twice his age rioting and threatening law-abiding citizens. He's a hero.
“The first rule of defense is don’t go looking for trouble or insert yourself where you shouldn’t be. The kid shouldn’t have been there in the first place.”
Is that why the good guys are not fighting back? It’s someone’s else’s job? Too bad the “someone else’s” never showed up.
They seemed pretty damned organized.
Where are they from? I bet they aren't from Kenosha.
Am I the only one that noticed how quickly these protesters/rioters came out of the woodwork armed and ready after the initial incident? Sure didn't look spontaneous to me.
A better question might be who were the morons (presumably adults) who thought it was a good idea to bring (or allow) a 17 year old kid armed with an AR rifle to a violent riot? They really watched his back too didn’t they? There he was running for his life and those he probably looked up to were no where to be found.
Sigh.
because the black dude ran off and was no longer a threat. skater boy hit him with the board and was going for round 2 when the young white guy ended the threat
There's heartbreaking video from Kenosha (and everywhere else) of grown men in tears as they watch the business they have built and nurtured, their livelihoods, burned down, looted, and destroyed. Only minutes before gunfire rang out, there's video of Antifa "protesters" smashing cars at a dealership. Earlier that day a man was beaten as he tried to extinguish the flames burning in his business.
So maybe this kid was an idiot. Maybe he traveled somewhere he didn't need to be and found the trouble he went looking for but, damnit, I'm sick and tired of the senseless looting and destruction by people who have been repeatedly allowed to get away with it.
I'll shed ZERO tears for the three loser pieces of sh*t who found themselves on the wrong end of an AR-15.
F**k those guys. They earned those pieces of lead.
Better question yet, whose idea is it to ALLOW violent riots to take place all over the country for over THREE months?
The Dem Governors, they have blood on their hands and are personally responsible for millions in property damage.
That one is an easy answer.... democrats
With that said, it is inappropriate and inadvisable to bring an armed 17 year old to a riot. Just my .02.
I have read/heard that he was a friend of the business owner who was ASKED to be there to help protect the property.
If the cops are ordered to stand down and follow that bullstein order, the citizens and their friends who can must stand up.
The kid had every right to be there, at the request of the owner.
The guy at the car lot was chasing him with a molotov cocktail when he got PROPERLY shot through the noggin.
On the street, the young fellow was knocked down, then was attacked by the entire mob while he was sitting and lying on the pavement.
The skateboard Antifa commie was hitting him in the head with the skateboard when he was shot.
The Antifa commie with the Paramedic hat, who was shot in the arm, was running at him, shooting with a handgun when he was shot.
ALL THREE WERE RIGHTEOUS SELF DEFENSE SHOOTINGS.
The "kid" did an excellent job. All 3 people who were shot were in the act of trying to kill him AT THE TIME HE FIRED. He had lots of opportunities to shoot many, many more Antifa scumbags, but he ONLY shot in self defense WHEN HE WAS BEING ATTACKED DIRECTLY WITH DEADLY FORCE.
How desperate (or dumb) could the business owner be to see a seventeen year-old with an AR-15 as a viable means of protecting his property?
This had "fail" written all over it before it even started.
I'm pretty sure that in hindsight, this kid, his family, the store owner who apparently asked him to defend his property, the dead men, the wounded man, the Town of Kenosha, and the State of Wisconsin agree that the world would have been better off if Kyle stayed home playing Grand Theft Auto.
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