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Originally Posted by reznor_
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You took my bait. So, here's my issue with Kyle:
Literally went to a riot zone, armed, to "quell rioting" as you put it. That's not his job. Not even remotely close. Some dude with a misguided view of patriotism. No one knows, he some dude and then "self-defense" kicked in when he shot the second two (the video that's been widely shared and we've all seen). Hopefully the jury does the right thing and convicts him as he should rightly be.
I fucking love guns. I own several. I believe firmly in the second amendment. I also happen to be a democrat and believe that people shouldn't be murdered in their apartments while they sleep, and believe that everyone should have access to healthcare and basic necessities (Note: some of you will call me a socialist for this -- I believe in capitalism, but I believe we should pay a bit more to take care of people who can't afford it, so go fuck yourself). However, I'm not willing to kill republicans or people I disagree with politically -- something the right can't really make a claim to.
Showing up in a city that you're driven to *by your mother* to "quell rioting", are you fucking kidding me? That's the defense? And that he's a patriotic American doing his job? Hopefully he gets skewered for this.
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No, that's not the defense. The defense is that he wasn't doing anything illegal, and people were trying to attack him, unprovoked. If somebody even just punches you hard in the jaw and you go down on pavement, you can very easily die, let alone with a skateboard. Those people, who made those choices, would still be alive whether Kyle was there that night or not had they simply not made those choices. It's clear self defense by like every reasonable interpretation of the laws of our country, unless contrary evidence comes out which it hasn't. He's just getting dogpiled because people saw a 10 second clip on facebook or some dumb shit and took *that* bait. He didn't break any laws nor entice anyone to attack him, they made conscious choices as moral actors to attack him first. This is the entire point of the 2nd amendment. It sucks they died, and it sucks police weren't able to do their jobs such that a kid felt compelled to do this in the first place. I don't like seeing any person get killed or injured, but it is fundamentally unjust to convict this kid of murder. It was not even remotely close to satisfying the legal preconditions for a murder charge.