“James D. Zirin is a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York”
And a biased, unhinged, liberal buffoon. Prosecutor for SDNY, eh? That’s the most corrupt, biased US Attorney’s office in the country. And explains a lot, in many ways.
Tell me you didn't watch the trial without telling me you didn't watch the trial.
If the only things you knew about Kyle Rittenhouse came from fellow Twitter bleucheques, then yes, it was unimaginable.
The unimaginable has occurred.
armor-penetrating ammunition????????
Stopped reading right there.
The unimaginable has occurred. “
This is not a difference of opinion. This is Evil plain and simple.
Who wrote this? A thirteen year old?
‘Full Metal Jacket.’
Cool, they should make a movie.
Oh Wait.
Let the outrage continue. LMAO here.
I’ve stopped reading or listening to loudmouth blacks and Jews.
I wish there was a specific category on FR for people who want keep posting legacy media OPINION pieces that basically call our side Nazi, Racist etc.
there is no value to these opinion pieces from the same trash bucket know-nothings.
issues of race are our national IQ test, and James D. Zirin just scored a 2.
Full-metal jacket, I see. So, hollow point would have been better?
Unimaginable?
That’s easy to fix. We all earned a new magic word in the summer of 2020: re-imagine.
So, re-imagine people who defend themselves. Boo boo all fixed.
Full metal jacket? Like that’s a big deal? In my world those are mainly for target practice.
Oh...you mean standard ammo? BTW, FMJ is not armor penetrating you liar.
AR-15 style assault rifle
It had a select fire switch and was thus capable of automatic fire? No? Then its not an assault rifle you liar.
So why bring a gun? If he believed the situation was so dangerous as to warrant a weapon, why didn't he just stay home?
Because it was dangerous as the violent rioters had already shown in previous nights of rioting. Why didn't they just stay home?...or at the very least, not riot?
An AR-15 is the same kind of gun, in design and function, that our troops carry in the field.
We equip our troops in the field with a semiautomatic rifle?
But Rittenhouse from the evidence had never undergone any training, military or otherwise, in the use and operation of the deadly weapon, which was illegally purchased and given to him by a friend.
Looked to me like he operated it just fine. Oh, and the weapon was legally purchased by his friend who loaned it to Kyle.
His gunshots, according to prosecutors, "recklessly" endangered the lives of other bystanders.
And the jury found that the prosecutors were wrong and that their claims were baseless.
Rittenhouse said that he knew that one of his victims, Joseph Rosenbaum, was unarmed. Yet he pumped four slugs into his body, he said, in an attempt to deter him, adding that he knew pointing a rifle at someone is dangerous. One shot might have qualified as self-defense, but four shots, it would appear, doth a murder make.
Multiple convicted pedophile and violent felon Rosenbaum was his assailant, not his victim. Oh and when Rosenbaum grabbed his gun, he was legally considered to be armed. Kyle fired 4 shots in 0.75 seconds. The jury found that to be valid self defense after Rosenbaum threatened to kill him, attacked him, pursued him and grabbed his gun. Your claim has been adjudicated false. Also, Kyle did not shoot Rosenbaum in an attempt to deter him. He carried the gun in an attempt to deter him. This was another lie on your part.
Although his second victim, Anthony Huber, was "armed" only with a skateboard, Rittenhouse claimed he shot him dead because he believed Huber was threatening his life.
Multiple convicted violent felon Huber was his third assailant. He was armed with a skateboard which can easily cause serious bodily injury or death - especially when someone bashes somebody else in the head with it as Huber did to Kyle. Twice. Then Huber tried to take his gun away just as the rest of the violent mob was about to attack. Shooting Huber was adjudicated to be valid self defense.
The third victim, Gaige Grosskreutz, who was in fact a paramedic, was armed, and he said he may have unintentionally pointed his gun at Rittenhouse. But Grosskreutz didn't point his gun at some casual onlooker; he pointed it at Rittenhouse because Rittenhouse was carrying a gun. For this, he almost had his arm blown off.
The fourth assailant, multiple violent convicted felon Gaige Grosskreutz pursued Kyle and pointed his loaded gun at Kyle. Kyle was able to shoot him first before Grosskreutz murdered him as was his intention. Grosskreutz later confirmed that his only regret was that he did not manage to murder Kyle.
False exculpatory statements are classically viewed as preeminent evidence of guilt. Three times that night, Rittenhouse yelled at the crowd, "I didn't shoot anyone."
Only a complete moron would think a violent mob baying for someone's blood is owed the truth from someone they are trying to murder.
Judge Bruce Schroeder lost any pretense of impartiality. He refused to permit prosecutors to refer to those shot as "victims," although it is quite common in criminal cases for judges to allow them to do so. The judge read to the jury a screed of instructions, which seasoned legal commentator Jeffrey Toobin found to be "incomprehensible," declaring, "What the hell is he talking about?!"
Democrat appointed Judge Bruce Schroeder showed he is a competent and professional jurist when he refused to permit prosecutors to refer to those shot as "victims". It was obvious they were violent rioters. One can only wonder if Jeffrey Toobin wasn't busy Toobining himself again when the Judge gave his instructions to the jury.
Rosenbaum had thrown a plastic bag at him and chased him.
Yes Rosenbaum threw a plastic bag, but there was something in that bag. Rosenbaum had also threatened to kill him. Then Rosenbaum chased him to the point that Kyle could go no further and had nowhere else to go.
Can this definition by any stretch apply to Rittenhouse's violent conduct?
Yes! And it did apply as the Jury ruled.
It is hard to think that justice was done in the Rittenhouse case. Because of the double jeopardy clause of the Constitution, the prosecution has no appeal, Rittenhouse has walked out of the courtroom a free man and the public must live with the verdict's bitter pill.
It is hard to think that justice was done in the Rittenhouse case because no charges should have been brought against Kyle in the first place. It was obvious self defense from the video evidence. Leftists will have to live with the verdict's bitter pill. Most Americans will celebrate that justice was done and that the court did not try to eviscerate their right of self defense when attacked by a violent mob of rioting Leftists.
Despite the political implications, this is a verdict that stands for nothing. It is not a verdict for gun rights
This is a verdict that stands for justice. It is a verdict for gun rights and for the right of self defense.
“Full metal jacket” just means the bullet’s coated with copper. Does that seriously make it “armor piercing”?
The US News and World Repirt used to be the conservative counterweight to Time and Newsweek. One by one the left gobbled up these conservative voices, like Reader’s Digest and TV Guide, and silenced them. Now they all tell lockstep lies.
Thank God that all 12 jurors on the case had a better grasp of the facts of the case.
BASED!