@SergeantQueen shootings are always an angsty conversation. Let’s stop for a moment and realize that shooting someone is a horrible thing to do. Even Rittenhouse has stated that he wakes up most nights because of the actions of that night.
Every time there is a shooting that makes the news, it gets politicized and therefore polarized. Example: There is a riot going on and the rioters attack a kid with a gun. He shoots several, killing 2. There is huge news all over the airwaves and the internet. Sites like this go crazy with some people saying he was defending himself and others saying he is a murderer. There are all sorts of political comments on both sides, the kid is either heralded as a hero or condemned as a White Supremacist (even though all the people he shot were white). But last weekend in Chicago there were 38 people shot, 6 died. A large percentage of the victims were under the age of 18, the youngest was 14. There is not a peep out there about the horror of this. Unless you specifically go looking for the stats (as I did), you will not hear one word.
In every single shooting, there are things going on, there are circumstances that led up to it. It can be a riot going on. It can be a gang related shooting. It can be a murder of passion (found spouse in bed with someone else, for example). It can be self-defense. It can be a complete accident. But it is 100% of the time the stuff going on that results in the shooting, not the gun itself. As we can see with the most recent event in Waukesha, guns are not the only way for someone to kill others, even large numbers of people.
Until there can be honest, open, all encompassing discussions that don’t get into political rhetoric, it will continue.