Posted on 11/21/2021 3:51:10 PM PST by simpson96
“Shooting unarmed citizens is fundamentally wrong,” wrote Gov. JB Pritzker in his statement on the Rittenhouse verdict, which is pasted below.
Moment in the video when Rittenhouse shot rioter aiming a pistol at him. That’s a lie. Pritzker should retract the statement and apologize. One had a pistol pointed at Rittenhouse at the moment Rittenhouse fired, captured in video.
More fundamentally, Pritzker knows full well that it is entirely appropriate and lawful to use a gun in self-defense when facing imminent bodily harm of any kind, which the jury rightly concluded was shown by the evidence respecting each of the three who were shot.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s statement says “we must respect the jury’s decision” but then is somehow able to say “What Kyle Rittenhouse did was reckless, dangerous, and showed an utter disregard for human life.”
That’s absurd. The charges rejected by the jury expressly included recklessly endangering safety and misuse of a dangerous weapon. If you accept the verdict you cannot claim that Rittenhouse acted recklessly or dangerously.
Both Pritzker and Lightfoot went on to express sympathy for those who were shot, all of whom had ugly criminal records. They expressed no sympathy whatsoever for countless victims of the riots.
Lightfoot added, “Let us also remember and pray for Jacob Blake,” who was shot by Kenosha police, sparking the riots.
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No argument with the cesspool reference but its not limited to Chicago only. I lived in central IL for almost 30 years. The corrupt democrat party runs tne majority of the state. IL voters will say yeah but we had a republican governor. Rauner is a liberal (Dartmouth, Harvard grad) who found it politically advantageous to put an R after his name. Much like Romney (hedge fund manager).
Ashli Babbitt
Spritzer is a fat liberal ahole and Lightfoot is a MARXIST racist black incompetent crazy woman.
They should have married each other. Their child would have been a brand new species of Stupid.
Chicago’s been a sh!thole for decades. I’d know, I live here.
Since the turn of the 20th century, Chicago has been so racked woth corruption that there’s no saving it, and there’s no saving this state, especially financially.
Important for many including me is the question:
“Why was 17-year old Kyle carrying an AR-15 through a riot area when he lived across state lines?”
The answer makes perfect sense making Kyle’s actions and behavior appear reasonable and appropriate. Yet the corporate news networks buried the background on this question of why for reasons we on FR know too well.
The below attempts to piece together buried facts of the case to form a clearer picture of why Kyle was where he was and did what he did.
Kyle was a young model citizen doing one good deed after another in his community. His family lived in Kenosha and he worked there. His mother lived in a suburb a very few miles across the state line. So this is why young Kyle was in and around Kenosha. It was perfectly normal for him to be there.
At the start of the Kenosha riots, a car lot had been attacked and several cars were torched. It was perfectly normal for the owner of the car lot to seek persons that could stand guard around the lot. Given the high degree of violence, it was reasonable that the guards be armed.
Young Kyle was asked to join others to be a guard for the car lot and his family in Kenosha owned weapons and equipped 17-year old Kyle with an AR-15. Makes reasonable sense as the AR-15 was legal and Wisconsin law allows 17-year olds to carry legal weapons.
Kyle walks through Kenosha with the AR-15 to the car lot where he will be one of the armed guards. After guard duty, he walks back through Kenosha towards his family’s home there and is viciously attacked by convicted felons who seek to kill him, one of whom was armed with a gun. Young Kyle ran from his attackers and as a last resort fired his weapon at them as they chased after him to kill him. One of his attackers had a gun aimed at him. If he had not pulled the trigger of his AR-15, he would be dead. It is said if had waited a second later, he would be dead.
Thanks for pointing that out to me. Please consider my comment amended. Happy Thanksgiving and many blessings to you and your family.
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