[Jacob Kell]

I know that this is an old article, but it was never posted, and I was thinking that people here might find it interesting, the questions it asked. What do you all think?

[Mount Athos]

nah he thought the kid wouldn’t shoot

[Antihero101607]

Joseph Rosenbaum was the pedo wasn’t he? I heard claims that when he met his end it was after getting a 55 grain nut check at point plank range, bleeding out afterwards. Hell of a way to punch your own ticket.

[buwaya]

All the men he shot were “not normal” in one way or another. The mob that was actually burning down businesses in that town was a collection of losers and worse, characters with nothing to lose. Who knows what self-destructive despair underlies such a waste of a life?

[pepsi_junkie]

Dude was used to bullying kids. He thought Rittenhouse would give up his gun and take his beating like his other victims had done.

[ez]

Joseph Rosenbaum thought he was a badass until he wasn’t. Tragic mistake.

[Seruzawa]

I think I’m glad he’s dead and couldn’t care less about his motivation. Just like I don’t care about the motivation of a black widow spider I find in the garage. Just kill it.

[TalBlack]

Why would you chase and lunge at, or otherwise attack, a young man who’s carrying a semi-automatic rifle?

Because you think he is a poser with a prop that he believes will scare you while you regard yourself as the ass-kicking Real Deal. The dead guy miscalculated. A hell of a lot of self styled badasses make that kind of miscalculation when a run of the mill person points a gun.

[Tired of Taxes]

I always thought he saw Rittenhouse as an easy target - young, all alone, and separated from his group.

But... this article says Rosenbaum had just been released that night from the hospital following a suicide attempt.

So... he was suicidal. Whether he really expected Rittenhouse to defend himself is another question.

[Falconspeed]

From the article: Rosenbaum “was acting aggressively and repeatedly challenged a group of armed men to shoot him.” Yes, a mentally unstable Rosenbaum attacked a man with both shooting skills and a gun. Illogical, unethical and probably motivated by faulty brain wires and defective neurons. Two morals to the story. Everyone needs to learn shooting skills and mental health skills.

[marktwain]

I speculated such might be the case.

Rosenbaum had a long history of mental illness.

He had just been released from the hospital after an attempted suicide.

[joma89]

He did not commit suicide. No, instead, all the movies he watched as a kid where the hero dodges bullets made him believe he was invincible and that nothing would hurt him.

In short, if one is a leftist than that person is, by default, delusional and can not comprehend consequence.