Okay? And when did I imply I disagree with that? I'm talking about a high school drop out filled with right wing propaganda going into a riot thinking he's a hero with a firearm. What does that have to do with protecting your family? Would you bring your family to a riot or something?
That has nothing to do with the Rittenhouse self defense case. You just dont like it that citizens started shooting back at these thugs. Might disband the movement if citizens of all races start defending themselves/property.
Did I say it did? You are the one saying "left wing people do this, not right wing people". Not once have I made a single stamrent here about Rittenhouse self defense. The only think I've stated on that matter is that he shouldn't have been charged with murder. We have for the last couple of pages have been discussing if we want more Rittenhouses or not and whether his strain of behavior and ideology in mass is good for society.
there's a difference between protecting yourself at home or when minding your own business to taking a gun to a fight.
Yes he has the right to do what he did. But that isn't the discussion we are having are we? We are discussing if more Rittenhouses in mass is good for society. The fact that you have to fall back to non-sequitter augments that have nothing to with my points suggests you don't have any input on what I'm actually typing about.
Lawyers coach their clients. They tell them how to dress, how to act, how to answer questions. I’ve had personal experience with this. I even remember an instance in my childhood, seems like such small potatoes now, when my parents had to go to court for a lawsuit with a contractor over the flooring in some of their properties/houses. My dad shaved off his mustache at his lawyer’s insistence. And I think that was just before a judge, too. This guy’s crying/blubbering looked phony and absurd to me. Like he was coached or told to show emotion and he was working himself into it... I don’t know, it’s possible it was genuine, but I doubt it. Either way, my incredulousness* is not out of bounds. But to answer your question, I think I’ve been to at least 15 funerals for family and friends. I think I was even an altar boy for a couple of services for people I didn’t know. All the displays of sadness seemed real to me. But that was in a church or a funeral home or at houses for the rosaries that followed. Places where people genuinely grieve for people they loved. The crying I’m responding to happened in a courtroom, a place where artifice is much more likely, encouraged, and often rewarded.
I don't think you can coach or fake the gasping for air, I take it that's the point of mentioning funerals
Of course you can, but I’m not claiming they practiced every beat and breath of his sobbing. I’m saying it looked phony to me, like someone working themselves into being emotional. It happens all the time in courtrooms.
I can't wait for black teens to start roaming the suburbs with ARs and shooting people when confronted.
Plus they are protesting an election that he lost by 7 million votes. 7 million people would be the 16th biggest state in this country.
That was a riot? LMAO People wandering around the capital. 2 totally different things and situations.
I'm grunching this part, but will read up later. January 6th definitely had rioters, just like the Black Lives Matter / Anti-Police Brutality protests had rioters mixed with peaceful marchers. Events can have multiple elements going on at the same time.
Yep, at that time there will be plenty of bloodshed. What I'm looking forward to is if they try to bring that lawlessness out to rural areas. When that happens all hell will have broken loose, because almost everybody has a gun, knows how to use it and wont think twice about using it. That's if they dont capture the rioters and feed them to the gators. I know of a drug dealer that rumor has it got fed to the gators. What I do know is he hasn't been heard from again.
Then you’ll see gun control quick fast and in a hurry like 1970s Ronald Reagan Governor against the black panthers type speed.
On a side note, is China still in control of the voting machines? Are we going to ever go back to the pre pandemic way of voting? You know the type of oting where people actually have to get up off of their azzez to vote?
The rioters and protesters are already agitated. People who have no problem destroying people’s property because of their own sense of righteous anger cannot blame others for “agitating” them to violence by their presence. If he provoked them verbally or by pointing his gun at them, that’s different (and I know this is what the prosecution is claiming). But his mere armed presence is not grounds for him to be attacked, and if he is attacked he has the legal right to defend himself.
