Quote Originally Posted by nightmarefish View Post
The kid being a dipshit doesn't mean he doesn't have the right to defend himself.

The kid having a gun doesn't somehow mean he provoked any violence towards him thus can't use the gun. That's basically what the prosecution is arguing.

You should care about the verdict because if that's not self defense then what is? And where does this lead?
I didn’t mean to write that wall of text. I’m going to delete it. I had started my post and then it auto saved something on my phone I was just riffing on and didn’t mean to get that deeply into. My main point was two were no doubter innocent or more likely to be not guilty verdicts.

The kid with the skateboard to me, just on the initial video I saw, was some kid standing there with a bunch of people yelling he shot or killed people. Springing into action is stupid, but under another circumstance, could be viewed as stupid but understandable. I’m not advocating a guilty there as I didn’t watch the trial.

That kid had no business being there or having that weapon at his age and maturity. What I really thought was the judge might have fucked him by dropping the gun charge. It’s hard to let someone who shouldn’t have been there, with a gun he wasn’t allowed to legally have, go completely free.

Even if you find it was 95% appropriate self-defense, he still shouldn’t have been there. The misdemeanor gun charge allows for a jury, that I think are more women than men, to convict of something that probably gets him probation or some slap on the wrist.

Dudes walking around with those weapons are supposed to be grown men, or guys like you trained. It’s not a weapon or situation for a kid that was neither physically or mentally mature.