@seawulf575 – the state failed to do it’s job. The police were ineffective. The rioters were doing lots of things wrong, and fuck them. That shouldn’t justify vigilantism. I understand that in this country it does. I just think it shouldn’t.
You arent being fair when you characterize every attack on Rittenhouse as equal. He shot and killed the first guy, after which the crowd obvioisly percieved him as what they all feared, a bad guy with a gun. A nutty maga high capacity brony on a rampage. Rightly or wrongly, it was a natural fear based decision, when the stakes of incorrectly judging him to not be a threat could have meant the lives of numerous people. It’s just the shit the happens when we come locked and loaded.
Deputizing and arming the nation is one solution to the failures of policing, but it is prone to more random and unintentional and unnecessary death like in the two examples going around here. In some ways, however I’m done on this issue. There frankly comes a time when there are just too many guns to ignore and not being armed starts to be reckless. I’m afraid that I’ve decided to get a gun, myself, even though it increases the chances that myself or someone I love will be killed with a gun. It’s just too late, and I think I need to accept that.