Quote Originally Posted by nightmarefish View Post

It's not illegal to be stupid and just because you're stupid doesn't mean you don't get to defend yourself if attacked. There were many other people there that night with guns.

You're basically arguing that after he made the bad decision to go to the riot with a gun that he was open game for anyone to attack him and he didn't have the right to defend himself. You also think a girl that leaves the house wearing a short skirt shouldn't be able to defend herself from being raped?
No, you asked me if I ever been hit in the head with a skateboard. I answered your question with the qualifier that I also didn’t do anything like Rittenhouse did either. You are conflating my argument which is focusing on the second scene.

I personally do not believe from what I’ve read and seen that he exhausted all options to get the fuck out of there after the Rosenbaum incident. The rest of my initial post was talking about what my theory is on the Jury’s deliberations, Defense Motions for Mistrial and the Judge’s bias. I am not coming at this in a political or advocacy direction. Just what I have personally observed. I understand you disagree and that’s fine.

Also, young and stupid may give you a pass on a lot of shit. But not taking a life. Again, imho.