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Kyle Rittenhouse: Vigilante White Men
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Anonymous
Yes, you clearly don't know what is. An AR15 can actually fire much more than 30 rounds, it is limited only by its magazine. Of course the same is truck of a Glock pistol and you can buy a 30 round magazine (or larger) for one of them as well. The capacity of a weapon's magazine does not determine if it is "automatic" or not. |
Anonymous
You are correct. You do not know what an automatic weapon is. Spoiler alert, it has nothing to do with the number of rounds. |
Anonymous
I am not the PP, but civilians are allowed under the law to defend property, theirs and that of others, depending on the specific circumstances. A bouncer at a bar is a civilian, a security guard is a civilian, a random stranger who observes a crime in progress and intervenes is a civilian. I don't think those killed "deserved" to die, but I also don't care that they did. When you attack someone in the midst of a riot you are risking your life. They knew Rittenhouse was armed and bet their lives that he wouldn't use his rifle or that they could otherwise gain the advantage on him despite it. They bet wrong obviously and I am not about to feel bad for them. |
Anonymous
Automatic- multiple bullets come out of the gun on one trigger pull until you let go. Semi- automatic- one bullet per trigger pull even if you don't release. The next bullet will be ready for the next trigger pull, but it won't come out of the gun until you pull the trigger. AR-15 is semi- automatic as are most modern guns. |
Anonymous
Then you do not know what one is. An automatic weapon is a weapon that continues to fire when the trigger is depressed. If you pulled the trigger and held it -- all of the bullets would come out in under 2.5 seconds. A semi-automatic weapon which includes most rifles and handguns sends only one bullet each time the trigger is pulled. So if you pulled the trigger and held it, only one bullet would fire. An AR 15 can hold as many or as few bullets as are in the magazine. Can be way less than 30 and can be many many more with an extended clip. Same as a handgun. A handgun like a 9mm is semi-automatic. It can have whatever bullets are in the magazine. As Warren G and Nate dog sing -- sixteen in the clip and one in the hole. But an extended clip can hold many more -- 25, 40, or more. |
Anonymous
Sure. It can be. |
Anonymous
| I don't really understand the whole outrage. Let's be frank, this whole thing was a giant Darwin award, Rittenhouse included. The world is actually better off that the two lunatics who died are no longer on it. People die every day, unfortunately, and so it would be more logical from a political strategy situation for people to save their outrage for a case where the people who died actually deserve anyone's sympathy. The dead career criminal pedophile and wife beater rioters in this situation assumed the risk and were not likely to have long, happy productive lives given their continued patterns of behavior anyways. |
Anonymous
Educate yourself. It isn't. You come across as ignorant and unwilling to actually understand facts. |
Anonymous
Of course they were being handled, there was a curfew and the whole police force patrolling the streets. Maybe it wasn’t handled to your satisfaction, they were short in numbers, but there were professionals there trained in managing civil unrest. I don’t like how the politicians handled it, including the governor. They heard it at the ballot box and they will hear it for years to come. I still find it disturbing that you think jacked up teens who run around with a rifle will resolve public unrest when the police hasn’t been able to quell it. |
Anonymous
Agree. And the cherry on top will be when some nut blasts Kyle and his mom for the notoriety. |
Anonymous
It's about the message the verdict sends and about the fact that it will encourage more dumb--and potentially fatal--acts of vigilantism. Also, if all life is precious, what does it matter how morally reprehensible the victims were? |
Anonymous
There is outrage because the two felons that died are viewed as Team Blue, and their killer is viewed as Team Red. It has nothing to do with the specifics of what happened, as proven 100x by posters here who have demonstrated that they don't know the specifics of the case or believe that crossing state lines is significant somehow. If a couple of Proud Boys, both with felony convictions, had attacked a 17 year old BLM protestor who was armed with a rifle, and the 17 year old killed them in self defense nobody would care. |
Anonymous
Clearly to make such a statement you must be speaking from experience (otherwise you’re just spouting nonsense that you wish were true, but I’m sure you already knew that). I’m a little shocked that someone who is anti gun would not only associate with a GUN NUTTER but get close enough to see his penis. You learn something new every day. |
Anonymous
Maybe the message it sends is that you don't get to attack someone who is obstructing your rioting. Maybe the message it sends is that the police need to step in early and stop rioting and arson rather than parking down the street and watching from a safe distance. Seems like there are a few potential messages here. |
Anonymous
In rural parts of the country, millions of teenagers hunt both as a hobby and as a way to help feed their families. An AR-15 is just another long rifle, which is why there wasn’t anything illegal about Rittenhouse possessing it. It’s a common fact of life in many rural areas. Long rifles aren’t really a significant part of gun violence. They make up about 3% of murder weapons. |