Posted on 08/26/2020 10:28:22 AM PDT by Drew68
Wrong. What is set up by the Second is that NO governmening body acting under the US Constitution has a just duty, power, or legal standing to infringe on the Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
Period. Or do we need to revisit the Pre-amble to BoR to see what the Founders actually intended when they wrote their "declaratory and restrictive" clauses?
And no... I don't give a tin sh*t what legal hand waving has sprung over over the decades to reduce this protection for our Right to NOTHING. I've heard it all before and it is all just "justification" for infringing that which bloody well never should have been infringed on to start with.
Yup; but one day the thugs will pick on the wrong person!
Who will know how to get them to TOUCH him/her in some manner; then Katy bar the door!
“Care to address what actually happened here?”
Legally, he was breaking the law by being there with the rifle. Second, he appears to have no support or backup. A major fuck up. 3rd, He lacked fire discipline. In that one video, he was just popping off rounds. I praise the armed citizens who knew what they were doing. You are free to support the one guy who clearly showed he didn’t have the training or experience to be there. I do not belong to nor will I join a militia group. Until I see otherwise, the groups contain too many who find low standards acceptable.
“Clearly the video I saw he will never be convicted of murder. Probably of nothing. The DA has no case.”
The videos certainly prove he was in violation of WI law which prohibits minors of possessing long guns except in very certain circumstances. This is just my opinion, but that fact will harm any self-defense argument he may have.
“he was just popping off rounds.”
You are mistaken. You may have heard other people shooting and assumed it was him.
He demonstrated outstanding threat identification and restraint.
After getting kicked to the ground, he fired on the man who hit him in the head with the skateboard as that man was trying to take control of the rifle.
The man who had his arm shot was rushing towards him with a pistol (I think a small glock) in his right hand. He freezes a few feet from the shooter with his hands held up in front of him signalling surrender, still holding the glock in his right hand. After freezing for a moment he appears to “make his move” and only after that aggression is he shot in the arm. All the while another man had also frozen with his hands up a few feet from the shooter. That man was allowed to retreat is safety.
I hear 4 shots which I think we both agree were fired from the rifle. The other shots heard later clearly were being fired elsewhere. I will concede that my previous description of how he conducted fire discipline is overblown.
[Stop cheering the fact that kids are fighting your battles.]
First two sentences are wrong. But hey... Participation trophy for you...
very inappropriate here, read the rules
Pfffft. He will get a fine for possessing a firearm which will have nothing to do with self defense arguments. He will walk on everything else.
And he still gets arrested by the DA of Wisconsin. Hope he hire the same lawyers that represented Nick Sandmann
He did. Lin Wood notified the family that his team was activated and waiting for his family to OK their involvement.
Lucky for him he was from Illinois!
Things worked out for the 17 year old didn't they?
Whether it did or didn’t, it doesn’t make your comment any less stupid.
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