He put himself between anarchists and law abiding citizens with the intent to protect innocent people and their property. It's a good thing people with a spine like him exist to help protect people like you. Just because he was turned into a political pawn doesn't mean he did absolutely anything wrong.
Kyle Rittenhouse rifle destroyed by Wisconsin State Crime Lab
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He put himself between anarchists and law abiding citizens with the intent to protect innocent people and their property. It's a good thing people with a spine like him exist to help protect people like you. Just because he was turned into a political pawn doesn't mean he did absolutely anything wrong.
CZ Shooter
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This kid is a hero.
He tried to protect those who create values against those who destroy them.
Some of those shop owners were struggling just to get by and put food on their families table, while these woke clowns (most of whom never worked a single day in their life) just take it all away?
This kid is a hero...remember that all it takes for evil to triumph is good people doing nothing.
Those pieces of #### he dispatched will never rape a child, beat up women or commit a crime ever again.
They will never be able to torch someones life's work to the ground.
World is a better place without them and Kyle deserves a metal of honour for making it happen.
where is the thumbs down button??
I have no sympathy for those he shot, but it's a dangerous precedent to have untrained 17yo's with rifles patrolling the streets. Like I said previously, the right call from the Jury was made and justice was done, but we shouldn't be using him as an example of a hero. The only thing I do agree with is why destroy the gun other than to put on a BS show?
nowarningshot
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He took a settlement, from CNN, or NYT? Certainly has the money to pursue a lawsuit against the State. Add a six figure punitive amount, and refuse all settlement. Eventually take a disclosable large amount, with the provision that every person in the chain of custody is fired with cause.
Consequences for actual malice.
Consequences for actual malice.
CZ Shooter
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While I agree, that most would preffer someone with more experience (like the cops for example), they were nowhere to be found.
Under those circumstances, it is up to the citizens to step up and protect their community.
Kyle stepped up to the plate in a big way.
Arming a 17yo and sending him out on the street during a riot has disaster written all over it. If the kid was defending his family home I would be completely on his side.
Nobody other than Kyle can say what his intentions were that night, so I guess me saying he was looking for a fight is projecting. Lets give him the benefit of a doubt. I'll admit this scenario ended in one of the better ways I would have imagined with only scum being shot down, but this could have just as easily ended with either the kid himself or some other innocent bystander being killed. I know this is a movie fantasy scenario for some, but I think it's just downright dumb.
CZ Shooter
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But nobody "armed him" or "sent him there".
He did that on his own free will.
Also...if I'm not mistaking, didn't he also go there to protect his uncles auto-shop?
I know he was part of the graffiti removal crew, but there was a family connection.
Cameron SS
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So if Langley BC is ever undergoing city wide riots with whole city blocks engulfed in flames, while the entire down town is being systematically looted and ransacked while mobs of violent criminals are attacking random people and vandalizing every parked car in sight, your local police are standing back and letting the town burn because its too dangerous, for them and mobs of looters and #### rats are posting openly on social media that they are going to continue to burn everything to the ground until there is nothing left, you are going to do what? Let the looters burn your city down. Wait to die in your house. Hope the mob gets you last
Gamble that they wont cime to your privileged neighborhood. Or Are you going to take to the streets armed only with your righteous indignation?
Yes, my mileage certainly varies.
It would be easy for people to second guess someone's actions in retrospect, with the advantage of hindsight. It would be obviously ideal in a situation if a person were to have both the time and ability to thoroughly assess all factors, consider all options, and evaluate all potential paths of consequence. Unfortunately in real life, those opportunities may not be able to afford themselves, and people have to, on occasion make decisions based on the best possible information, in line with their values and beliefs. When my kid was young and in kindergarten (he's in university now), and I was picking him up one day, a bunch of us parents were waiting outside the kindergarten pen for the kids to be released. Well the first kid came out in a snowsuit, looked like the michelin man. The second kid came out - and you can just sense he was trouble as he was circling the first kid. He knocked over the first kid, whose glasses came flying off, and started to stomp on his head. The other parents - all mothers, all just told him to "stop it". No one went into the gated / penned area. Kid did not relent.
I hopped over the fence and grabbed the attacking kid and held him at bay until the teacher and other kids came out. I explained what happened to the teacher, not before several woke parents (yes, even in 2007 they existed) were like "you are not allowed to touch that kid" and "you are going to get CAS on you". It was so pathetic. At that point, fear started gripping me, but I wouldn't have changed the action, irrespective of the consequences. Sometimes you just do the right thing, especially when no one else is willing to help. That's why people who choose to take their own security in their hands and have a home defence gun - they get chastized by the mainstream media and even by some in the gun community who think, "oh, just call and wait for the cops". In an ideal world, maybe that's the right response, when you have time to spare, and the home invader or whoever is not close to advancing on you. As we all know, any kind of self defence shooting in Canada will likely result, irrespective of justification or not, in possible arrest and no doubt having to go through the legal process to clear your name, at great personal financial expense. One may not consider all those options when you have to make a split second decision on defending yourself.
It is easy to second guess Rittenhouse's actions based on youth, etc. But I personally would rather have more of people like him who see injustices and can't stand by and watch, in the face of insufficient police response.
I hopped over the fence and grabbed the attacking kid and held him at bay until the teacher and other kids came out. I explained what happened to the teacher, not before several woke parents (yes, even in 2007 they existed) were like "you are not allowed to touch that kid" and "you are going to get CAS on you". It was so pathetic. At that point, fear started gripping me, but I wouldn't have changed the action, irrespective of the consequences. Sometimes you just do the right thing, especially when no one else is willing to help. That's why people who choose to take their own security in their hands and have a home defence gun - they get chastized by the mainstream media and even by some in the gun community who think, "oh, just call and wait for the cops". In an ideal world, maybe that's the right response, when you have time to spare, and the home invader or whoever is not close to advancing on you. As we all know, any kind of self defence shooting in Canada will likely result, irrespective of justification or not, in possible arrest and no doubt having to go through the legal process to clear your name, at great personal financial expense. One may not consider all those options when you have to make a split second decision on defending yourself.
It is easy to second guess Rittenhouse's actions based on youth, etc. But I personally would rather have more of people like him who see injustices and can't stand by and watch, in the face of insufficient police response.
Yes I would be waiting to die in my house, armed to the teeth and willing to protect myself. Staying in ones house with nowhere else to retreat and defending yourself is very reasonable. AFAIK the only people killed during those riots were the ones by K.R. so I think you're being a wee bit dramatic, as if rioters were killing people in their houses. It's horrible what happened to peoples parked cars and businesses, but I'm not going to arm myself to go face a mob just to save your whip. Sorry, I guess.
Cameron SS
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I guess some people feel a sense of responsibility to more than just themselves.
nowarningshot
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Pointing out.the context painted here, not.the poster.
This is a unrealistic scenario. This is Kanada. If the above posted hypothetical happened, the police would arrest you, even if it was non restricted. Followed of course with the crime minister calling gun owners racist, homophobic, white supremist. Seize the bank accounts of every gun owner in Langley. Other than not having sewage on their boots, High River 2.0
