This is going to be blunt. In the coming weeks and months, the sheer volume of propaganda bullshit that’s going to be crafted and aimed at you by fake news over the shootings in Kenosha will seem almost overwhelming, but there are some fundamentals of law you should not lose sight of.
First off, every person has the right to defend themselves from anybody. That’s why the second amendment, the right to bear arms, was added to the Bill of Rights by James Madison and others. His thinking was once you have a standing army, it can be used by an unscrupulous government trampling over the Constitution to intimidate and suppress its citizens. Harry Truman fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur because MacArthur started to believe he was above civilian control, and that’s the start of a slippery slope that always leads to military dictatorships.
With the far-left fake news propaganda machine always rushing by reflex to the criminal’s defense and organizing a media lynch mob for anyone defending themselves, the situation reached such a point of confusion in a Florida county that the top cop sent a letter to all householders in it outlining your legal position if someone burgles your house in the middle of the night. In that situation you don’t know whether they’re armed or not. You don’t have to wait for them to attack you before you respond. You’re entitled to strike first with whatever weapon comes to hand.
When you’ve rendered them injured or unconscious, you call the police. What you’re not entitled to do is continue shooting or clubbing them when they’re helpless and no longer constitute a risk because that’s when you can be charged with assault or even murder. Put simply, if you’ve just put a bullet hole in a person and they’re down, you can’t just finish them off with a double tap to the head.
The same rules apply to a police officer who discharges his gun in the course of their duty. If he believes the subject constitutes an immediate danger to them or other people, he’s entitled to shoot. The emphasis is on believe. In the aftermath, the officer is put on administrative duties until Internal Affairs or its local equivalent have investigated the shooting and determined whether it was a good shooting or not. It’s not at all uncommon for a policeman to serve his twenty-five all the way to retirement without ever having to shoot his service pistol.
In Kenosha, a young man called Kyle Rittenhouse was running for his life pursued by a screaming mob. He trips and falls over and rolls over onto his back on the road. One of the gang dips in to stamp on him followed by another who hits him over the head with a skateboard.
The mob starts to close in on him, with one reaching down to grab him. I’m sure the footage that was shown last week flashed through his head of a man and his wife being dragged from their car by a mob, both being beaten up and the man nearly kicked to death when he’d already been rendered unconscious. He was in the exact same situation and had just grounds to believe his life was in immediate danger. He drew his sidearm and shot the man reaching down for him while the rest of the mob either fled or backed off with their hands up. He put a few rounds over their heads to discourage them following him while he walked towards the police line to surrender himself.
Looked at in isolation, that was a good shooting in anyone’s book.
What I find suspicious about the footage that emerged within a very short time after the incident is that it appears to be highly selective. Any flare up or incident while the Dem rioters have someone surrounded is always captured on multiple video phones, and yet in this case all you get to see is the pack chasing the victim. The same selectivity is apparent with video coverage of the man who was wounded in the arm. It shows him receiving first aid but the bit that was edited out can be seen in this picture which was taken before the video was shot.
He’s holding a Glock automatic, so it looks like he was the loser in whatever gunfight occurred. The fact that he’s still holding it after being shot indicates he’s suffered nerve damage leaving him unable to release his grip of it. What’s suspicious is that by the next time you see him being attended to, the Glock has mysteriously disappeared. Shooting an unarmed Democrat rioter plays a lot better to the fake news propaganda machine, so the next time you see that picture, the Glock will most probably have been cropped or photo shopped out of the picture.
Kyle Rittenhouse has since been charged with murder – within 24 hours – which is amazingly quick and definitely smacks of a political sop being thrown to the media and the various lynch mobs after him. His trial, if it ever comes to that, will last for months, but I suspect all it’ll do is raise him to the hero status people like Nick Sandman and the McCloskey couple currently enjoy. The hang him high commentary I fully expect from fake news may, like in Sandman’s case, prove good grounds to sue the ass off them once again.
Addendum:
Here’s something interesting:
Dr. Kelley of the Milwaukee Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an autopsy on Joseph Rosenbaum. Dr. Kelley indicated that Rosenbaum had a 1) gunshot wound to the right groin which fractured his pelvis, a 2) gunshot wound to the back which perforated his right lung and liver, a 3) gunshot wound to the left hand, a
4) superficial gunshot wound to his lateral left thigh, and a 5)graze gunshot wound to the right side of his forehead.
My comment: That’s interesting, because Kyle was in front. How’d Rosenbaum get shot in the back? Let alone the rest of it looks dubious, I doubt a .223 would merely graze and there’s no such thing as “superficial” with that round, the “superficial” hit to the thigh was likely from a hand gun.