I just listened to some of the closing arguments. The prosecuting attorneys are disgusting humanoids.
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Don’t know if I’d go that far, but they’re scary as hell with firearms. I assume everyone saw Binger take the rifle and aim it at everyone in the courtroom after having been assured that it wasn’t loaded. As some have noted, he must have attended the Alec Baldwin School of Firearm Safety.
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Yes. Finger on trigger and all.
Racial profiling is a problem and should be guarded against, but it is by no means inherent in broken windows policing. As far as your second comment, I guess it depends on what you think the disease is. I’m talking about the disease of violent crime, and I think the evidence suggests that broken windows policing is pretty good medicine for it.
You don’t need medicine if you don’t get the disease in the first place. Crime is a symptom of a disease anyway, not the disease.
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What a piece of shit.
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What disease would that be? For God’s sake, please don’t tell me that poverty causes crime, when all evidence says that’s nonsense.
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Yes, we need to empty the prisons. Except for people with the wrong political sympathies.
Well, they’re not literally just humanoids…I guess. Just wretched pieces of shit that deserve harsher punishment than that which they are attempting to give Rittenhouse.
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It’s pretty bad when the prosecuting attorney is more dangerous with a weapon than is the defendant.
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In his defense, he sounds like someone who has spent more time deepthroating “weapons” than learning to use weapons.
Guilty verdict, life goes on, nothing much happens. The lesson to don’t be stupid and make bad decisions with firearms is repeated.
NG verdict, protests and small scale localized riots occur (it’s fucking cold and dark out, unlike summer 2020). Armed far right groups feel empowered to be vigilantes, leading to protestors and rioters arming themselves in response. Nothing remotely good occurs when chuckleheads from both sides get emotionally charged in a confrontation with the other.
From a social perspective, it seems like a G verdict would be better than a NG verdict. But, the letter of the law doesn’t take that into account, and neither should the jurors.
G verdict and society learns that scumbags are free to loot, riot, and attack people without consequences and that even threatening to riot can affect the justice system. NG and we are still a nation of laws.
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Thank you for presenting a clear example of how ideas about social justice differ from ideas about justice.
I arrive at the opposite conclusion, but I’m one of those wacky people who think that bowing to the demands of an angry mob of woke know-nothings in the face of overwhelming facts is, in fact, not very good for society.
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Can’t vouch for the validity of this information, so take it with a grain of salt, but profoundly disturbing if accurate.
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Maybe if we gave these jurors $450,000 per family member for the anguish of being separated from their loved ones, along with guarantees of protection, they might place civic priorities over their very real personal concerns about this situation.
If we can afford this for people entering the country illegally, surely we can afford it for citizens sacrificing their peaceful lives to perform their civic duty.
Just a thought.
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Here’s a 10 day old blog post by Massad Ayoob, treasured New Englander and use-of-force expert. He’s a great writer, speaker and subject matter expert who has introduced more good ideas about gun safety and self-defense than the entire CHAZ occupied zone and BLM combined.
@Californiagrown I highly recommend reading this book of his if you are truly interested in understanding the subject in meaningful depth.
Edited for clarity: Here’s a link to the in-depth analysis Ayoob mentioned.
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The Prosecutor is truly a terrible human, who deserves at least what Rittenhouse faces.