Kyle Rittenhouse’s sister Faith is seeking $3,000 on a crowdfunding website in a bid to prevent the eviction of herself and her mother Wendy from their home, citing her “brother’s unwillingness to provide or contribute to our family.”

  • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
    119·
    5 months ago

    Actions speak louder than words, especially when those words are a teen talking big to his friends.

    The fact is, nothing he did in Kenosha supports the claim that he wanted to kill anyone, period, and everything he did directly contradicts it. He showed zero aggression toward anyone, and his first response to aggression toward him was to RUN AWAY, every single time. Bottom line, none of the people who got shot would have gotten shot if they had let him run away.

    • JimSamtanko@lemm.ee
      112·
      5 months ago

      Ahh… we’re doing the copypasta now?

      Okay:

      ROFL…. “locker room talk” right? You apologists are fucking hilarious. Where I come from- (America) this is called “Premeditated Murder.” And in any courtroom with an unbiased judge, he’d have been convicted on that alone.

      • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
        215·
        5 months ago

        ‘You can tell he planned to kill someone by the fact that he never showed aggression toward anyone, and his first response to unprovoked aggression toward him, all three times, was to run away’

        lol

            • JimSamtanko@lemm.ee
              42·
              5 months ago

              That’s entirely irrelevant to the fact that he brought a gun with the intent to kill people after he said that was exactly what he was going to do.

              I get what you’re trying to do, but… Some rings don’t need a voice of reason.

              Dude is a murderer. End of story.

              • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
                24·
                5 months ago

                the fact that he brought a gun with the intent to kill people

                Literally not a fact. Even as just a hypothesis that that was his motive, every single bit of evidence (all the facts we have about what he did in Kenosha that day) contradicts the notion that he wanted to/intended to/planned to kill anyone. He literally did everything he could to avoid using his weapon, short of literally forfeiting his life to homicidal maniacs.

                That’s the reality.

    • TheFonz@lemmy.world
      53·
      5 months ago

      I’m sorry you’re getting downvoted. I wish our side (I’m a full on leftie and I don’t like conservatives) did a better job of countering arguments instead of using emotionally charged language in debates and spreading misinformation. The whole trial is recorded and all the transcripts are available.

      I wish Kyle had not shown up with a rifle to a charged and tense event, especially after what happened in Minneapolis in the prior weeks. There really isn’t an excuse for a 17 year old to show up with an AR-15 to such a situation, even if it was perfectly legal. Yes, he bad better trigger impulse control than 99% of police officers, but a 17 year old should never be allowed in the first place. My argument is not a legal one, but an ethical one.

      To me the fault lies in our society:

      1. We encourage proliferation of gun ownership.
      2. We allow 17 year olds to open carry.

      I could keep going but I’ll stop.

      Just to reiterate for Lemmy user base: I’m not on team Kyle; I’m on team facts and stop gun proliferation.