Reactions to Kyle verdict define different views of the meaning of “justice.”

[ClaireH]

But most any yahoo can go anywhere with a weapon and intimidate others...it is legal to open carry in most states I believe....

This verdict doesn't really change much....you can intimidate anyone you like...as long as whoever feels intimidated don't try to attack you..

I just hope this means black kids can play in the park with toy guns in peace now....and not worry about being killed for "intimidating" anyone

Your post prompted me to find this about how many states allow for open carry- turns out in 45 states it’s legal to open carry a handgun, and 15 require permit to open carry. State comparison and details:

Which States Allow Open Carry in 2025? [Updated Firearm Law Guide]

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[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

No, they just should have succeeded in killing him.
He deserved to die for is illegal deadly threat to everyone.

I hope your attitude catches on and spreads Iike wildfire among the ranks of the justice warriors...lol.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

I already cited 948.60 and the other relevant WI statutes.
And yes, bringing a rifle to any political event is always illegal.
It is an attempt to deliberately intimidate with a threat of deadly force.

No one else had a rifle and no one else was attacked.
It was the deadly threat of the rifle that required Kyle to be attacked.
I would have attacked him as well, as any sane and responsible person would, to anyone crazy enough to bring a rifle to a political event.

Dozens of people had rifles you moron. And riots are criminal activities not political

 

[Rigby5]

The rioters were destroying private property. They justified bringing a weapon to the riot.

Wrong.
The only people who were justified in stopping protestors from destroying property were the property owners.
Since the attempted murder of Blake was not being legally prosecuted, then destruction of property was legally warranted.
By Kyle attempting to stop the protestors, he was guilty of complicity in the attempted murder of Blake, after the fact.

 

[JWBooth]

Wrong.
The police shooting Blake was wrong and illegal, so then the protests were right and legal.
Kyle was deliberately attempting to intimidate the legal protestor with an illegal display of deadly force.
That is the equivalent of sitting in front of a polling station with a rifle, to intimidate voters.

Rioting and destroying private property most certainly iS justice, and is the time honored tradition of the Boston Tea Party.
It is those defending the illegal attempted murder of Blake who are the criminals.

Nobody claimed that protests weren’t right or legal. Arson, looting, and riot are another matter completely and justified a defensive response. Had the local authorities stepped up and done their jobs, non state actors filling the void was the right thing to do.
Somebody had to take out the trash.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

Wrong.
The only people who were justified in stopping protestors from destroying property were the property owners.
Since the attempted murder of Blake was not being legally prosecuted, then destruction of property was legally warranted.
By Kyle attempting to stop the protestors, he was guilty of complicity in the attempted murder of Blake, after the fact.

Rittenhouse wasn't stopping anyone from destroying property. He only stopped them from causing him harm, or death.

 

[JWBooth]

Wrong.
The only people who were justified in stopping protestors from destroying property were the property owners.
Since the attempted murder of Blake was not being legally prosecuted, then destruction of property was legally warranted.
By Kyle attempting to stop the protestors, he was guilty of complicity in the attempted murder of Blake, after the fact.

It takes a really dumb ************ to hold this view.

 

[BackAgain]

No, they just should have succeeded in killing him.
He deserved to die for is illegal deadly threat to everyone.

An absolutely asshole comment.

More than happy to burst your insane bubble: he made no threat to anyone except in defending himself from their attack. They shouldn’t have been engaged in rioting. He didn’t deserve to die at all. They also should not have chased him, thrown objects at him, verbalized death threats against him or struck him with a skateboard or a boot nor leveled a gun on him.

It may be sad that they died or got seriously injured (bye bye bicep), but if anyone “deserved” their fate that day, it was those three.

 

[Rigby5]

Dozens of people had rifles you moron. And riots are criminal activities not political

Wrong.
Very few were armed, none should have been, and those with arms stayed away from the demonstrators, so that they did not provoke or intimidate.
Kyle was the only one who did not stay on property to defend it, and instead went from person to person in the crowd, with the intent of deliberately intimidating.

 

[Rigby5]

An absolutely asshole comment.

More than happy to burst your insane bubble: he made no threat to anyone except in defending himself from their attack. They shouldn’t have been engaged in rioting. He didn’t deserve to die at all. They also should not have chased him, thrown objects at him, verbalized death threats against him or struck him with a skateboard or a boot not leveled a gun on him.

It may be sad that they died or got seriously injured (bye bye bicep), but if anyone “deserved” their fate that day, it was those three.

Kyle brought the rifle along solely to intimidate and provoke, and no other reason.
Clearly those who did not bring rifles were not harmed, so the defense claim is a lie.

 

[BackAgain]

Kyle brought the rifle along solely to intimidate and provoke, and no other reason.
Clearly those who did not bring rifles were not harmed, so the defense claim is a lie.

Your insane babbling is rich in stupidity. He brought a rifle for protection because violent rioters are generally pretty ******* dangerous, you asshole. You have exactly NO evidence to even pretend to know or claim that his intention was to intimidate or provoke anybody.

the fact that he was armed probably saved his life. So nothing you’ve said even begins to demonstrate your idiotic empty claim that the defense was a lie. Was HE attacked? Yep. Did he have a right of self defense? Yep. Did he provoke them by any acts against any of them? Nope.

Yiur moronic assertion is the lie.

 

[BackAgain]

Look. I'm not expecting much here. I've watched you post for a while and you're just the latest flavor of right wing bent "flooding the zone".
But, I'll try. There are literally hundreds of examples of this. Tamir Rice and Breonna Taylor spring to mind immediately. Two people shot and killed out of hand
with no consequences for the white men (police admittedly). But the two tiered system of justice works everyday. You just don't hear about it. Or you will
after the black man is executed.

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I understand you'll dismiss this. But the hard truth here is, if Kyle Rittenhouse was black, he'd be heading to prison right now...for a long time.
And people like you, wouldn't be standing up to defend him. No one asked him to come to Kenosha, it was illegal for him to posses and brandish
the rifle he had on that night, and he can thank his lucky stars his last victim wasn't more determined...cause he would have been dead.

I recognize your rhetorical reliance on counting your biased opinions as facts. If you were educable and honest (huge “if” in both cases) I guess maybe your errant thinking could eventually be repaired.

Here is one classic example. Your completely baseless ASSumption is that a black defendant in Kyle’s exact position would not have been acquitted. You say it. You might even believe that nonsense. But your opinion doesn’t make it so.

I doubt a black defendant otherwise in Kyle’s position would have been falsely smeared with the claim that he was a white supremacist. A black defendant in Kyle’s position would have his brilliant lawyers and thus would have gotten the same legal treatment when represented by virtue of the right to counsel. The same exposure of the prosecutorial rush to judgment, errors and misconduct would have taken place.

Not sure if you are contending that the judge’s rulings on legal issues would be different. I am aware of no fair basis to claim the judge was racist.

overall, I expect the same result would have come about. A bullshit prosecution would have been laid waste.

 

[Issa]

Hardly any killings?? We had 30 people killed during the BLM rampage across the country. You don’t know any of their names - well, maybe the police captain killed by the black looter - because leftists excuse, downplay, or simply don’t talk about these murders because they were done as part of the BLM movevent, and many by blacks.

Instead, the whole country knows the name of an innocent white teenager who defended himself against BLM savages ready to kill him.

yes, abroad in gun free countries there were clashes and all and hardly any shootings simply because even the wimpiest wimp when given a gun he'll kill as many as he wishes to. AVAILABILITY OF GUN is the problem.

This country is doomed and if doesn't break down to different countries it will break into a civil war sooner or later. Most of you who grew up in the US are brought up brainwashed one way or another and guided like sheep unfortunately.

 

[Issa]

but hardly any end up with killings

You mean except for the 12 million innocent men, women and children murdered by the European governments under socialist occupation from 1939-1945..........except for them...right...

Rounded up and murdered...by their governments....after they had their guns taken away from them in the 1920s and 30s.......

In those 6 years, more innocent people were murdered than in 87 years of murder with guns in the U.S.........and of those murdered in the U.S. by guns, the vast majority are criminals murdered by other criminals....while in Europe, the vast majority of those murdered were people handed over to the socialists by their governments ....innocent people...

So sell that crap to Biden voters...

I told you many times you are too dumb to talk to.
Guns will not protect you from a rogue government or an invading country. Ask Iraq, Afghanistan, Poland, Palestine and many other examples. You are just a weak ass man with a small dick syndrome that feels empowered by a pistol, nothing less and nothing more.

You keep mentioning Europe, how many mass murders they had vs the US? How many school shootings? how many work related shootings? Do they train kids in schools on what to do incase if there is a mass shooter?
You are a typical dumb ugly American who knows nothing and gets all his info from fauxnews. And I'm glad a lots of Americans aren't like you, and I'm glad I live in a state where your kind is rare and a small minority.

 

[j-mac]

Absolutely agree with the verdict. He is a stupid little sh#t, and like a dumbass kid, got into something way over his head, and had to shoot his way out of it.

While I agree with you and others that Kyle had no choice but to shoot to defend his life, I disagree with the characterization that he was a "stupid little shit"....

Under examination, and cross examination this young man handled himself with great poise, and intelligence, just like the night of the situation.

But, on the act of shooting, itself, he had the right to shoot. It is what self-defense in all about. You should stay the heck away from those type situations, but if you have got to choose between you and them, you should always choose you. Their value as human beings ceases to matter. He was judged by a jury of 12, which is always better than being carried by 6.

Well, thank goodness we have citizens in this country willing to stand up to the mob, unlike the sniveling politicians that violate their oaths by either ordering police to stand down, or refusing to deploy numbers of NG to protect their populations, and their property....I believe that is criminal.

 

[Lisa558]

yes, abroad in gun free countries there were clashes and all and hardly any shootings simply because even the wimpiest wimp when given a gun he'll kill as many as he wishes to. AVAILABILITY OF GUN is the problem.

This country is doomed and if doesn't break down to different countries it will break into a civil war sooner or later. Most of you who grew up in the US are brought up brainwashed one way or another and guided like sheep unfortunately.

No, the problem is the BLM-supporting felons and thugs who chased down a teenager, threatening to kill him.

I‘m actually I impressed with the self-restraint of this young man. He knew he could open fire on the lowlifes at any time, but instead ran from them to try to avoid what ultimately happened - kill or be killed.

 

[Lisa558]

While I agree with you and others that Kyle had no choice but to shoot to defend his life, I disagree with the characterization that he was a "stupid little shit"....

Under examination, and cross examination this young man handled himself with great poise, and intelligence, just like the night of the situation.



Well, thank goodness we have citizens in this country willing to stand up to the mob, unlike the sniveling politicians that violate their oaths by either ordering police to stand down, or refusing to deploy numbers of NG to protect their populations, and their property....I believe that is criminal.

Agree. If the libersl politicians weren’t so afraid of standing up to BLM terrorists, they’d let the police do their jobs, and the summer of riots would have stopped by the beginning of June. Instead the country endured months of savagery and destruction because leftists are afraid to stand up to bullies - especially if they are black.

 

[2aguy]

I told you many times you are too dumb to talk to.
Guns will not protect you from a rogue government or an invading country. Ask Iraq, Afghanistan, Poland, Palestine and many other examples. You are just a weak ass man with a small dick syndrome that feels empowered by a pistol, nothing less and nothing more.

You keep mentioning Europe, how many mass murders they had vs the US? How many school shootings? how many work related shootings? Do they train kids in schools on what to do incase if there is a mass shooter?
You are a typical dumb ugly American who knows nothing and gets all his info from fauxnews. And I'm glad a lots of Americans aren't like you, and I'm glad I live in a state where your kind is rare and a small minority.

And you go to the penis....

what is it with you anti-gun fascists and the penis? We talk about guns and you start fantasizing about the penis.....have you thought about getting counseling for this? Guns are not sex toys.....it is weong to get sexually stimulated by guns....youneed to get help...

 

[Lisa558]

Wrong.
The only people who were justified in stopping protestors from destroying property were the property owners.
Since the attempted murder of Blake was not being legally prosecuted, then destruction of property was legally warranted.
By Kyle attempting to stop the protestors, he was guilty of complicity in the attempted murder of Blake, after the fact.

OMG. Is this ^^^ how far leftists have sunk?

1) The cops were trying to stop a criminal thug who defied their instructions from going for a weapon.

2) Destruction of property is NEVER legally warranted. And that’s another problem with you activist lefties - you make up your own laws.

 

[2aguy]

I told you many times you are too dumb to talk to.
Guns will not protect you from a rogue government or an invading country. Ask Iraq, Afghanistan, Poland, Palestine and many other examples. You are just a weak ass man with a small dick syndrome that feels empowered by a pistol, nothing less and nothing more.

You keep mentioning Europe, how many mass murders they had vs the US? How many school shootings? how many work related shootings? Do they train kids in schools on what to do incase if there is a mass shooter?
You are a typical dumb ugly American who knows nothing and gets all his info from fauxnews. And I'm glad a lots of Americans aren't like you, and I'm glad I live in a state where your kind is rare and a small minority.

6 years in Europe they butchered 12 million innocent men, women and children

87 years of gun murderwhere 70-80% of all victims are actual criminals engaged in crime.....about870,000 criminals murdered


Can you tell the didferencebetween theviftima and which number is bigger?

Governments murder more people than criminals do....ans dumb shits like you only want government to have guns....

You are really stupid