But he wouldn’t have had to in the first place if he hadn’t gone out of his way to be somewhere he did not live, at places he did not work, for people he never spoke to, at a time of night when he shouldn’t have even been outside, for the sole purpose of using lethal force against people committing THEFT.
He lived 30 minutes away from that area, frequented it and was seen cleaning up graffiti and administering first aid to people regardless of their affiliation before the altrecation.
Also, like
Being stupid is not a crime
This is the same argument as “she wouldn’t be raped if she didn’t go to THAT part of town”
Do I think he should rot in jail for life? No. The three felons aren’t exactly innocent in this. The only thing I am saying is that he is not a hero by any stretch of the imagination.
When he inevitably walks free, I think his motivations desperately need to be addressed.
I wouldn’t call him a hero either
He was a kid way in over his head stuck in the middle of a civil conflict, forced to defend his life with a firearm he shouldn’t have legally had
It’s a whole complicated mess
I think it needs to be addressed that he was not “stuck” in this conflict. He went far out of his way–and with no justifiable reason–to place himself in it with intent, and that intent was not just to clean or heal, or he wouldn’t have brought a gun.
He previously admitted on camera to wanting to obtain a gun to shoot at looters. Not just thinking, but acting on that impulse is sociopathic. If he only had aid in mind, and hadn’t been walking around with a School Shooter Special™, I doubt anyone would have bothered him.
Kyle and his family also have ties to a known hate group (which the judge demanded be omitted from the trial). Given the underlying protest, I think the nation needs to start taking a far harsher stance against these groups.
Can you provide links to those, because this is literally the first time I’m hearing of those?
Sure, lemme get the judge talking about the video:
And here’s one article about his ties to the Proud Boys (last I heard, they were classified as a hate group):
And I’m not sure who you want, because no news source is really trustworthy. I figured Chicago was more local. There’s the Washington Post, LA Times, USA Today–all mention a “link” or “ties”. I can look for more, but I don’t know who’s genuinely honest. At the very least, he definitely knows them, as there are photos of him out drinking with some of them (wait, why tf was he in a bar???).
“Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.” – Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus
On this day, 12 November 1984, a group of anti-nuclear weapon activists damaged a nuclear missile silo in Missouri, using sledgehammers and an air hammer.
Helen Woodson, Larry Morgan, and Carl and Paul Kabat were subsequently arrested and given extremely long jail sentences. Morgan was jailed for 10 years, the Kabats for eight years each, and Woodson, a mother of 11 (pictured upon her release), ended up serving 27 years inside. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1852696024915539/?type=3
