Then another fellow comes running up with a handgun, clearly to shoot this dangerous and panicked young man, but he draws too slowly and Rittenhouse puts an admirable shot through his gun arm. The others wisely scatter after this.
With great satisfaction both Whitney and Quinn note that all three men Rittenhouse shot, two fatally, had criminal records. If they hadn't -- if the third man had been a Marine captain with four tours of Iraq under his belt -- this would have tarnished the story. But they were what they were: dispensable scum, much like the baddies in, for example, Hawaii 5-0.
I sympathize with young Rittenhouse. He is obviously a decent guy but with a twisted idea of public responsibility. He can't possibly be declared innocent, but his youth and the circumstances certainly extenuate his murders. He was clearly as much a victim of that gun he carried as the people he shot, both because it made him a target and because it conferred on him the idea that it was his only defense, rather than his voice, his wits and his fists. Which is a commonality among gun-carriers: skewed judgment. That weighty chunk of steel brings out the indignation, arrogance, and power in a person. Officer Rusten Sheskey had a right to pull his gun on Jacob Blake, but then he put seven bullets in his back when one in the foot would have done the trick. There's the rub.
Rittenhouse is a perfect example of why guns ought to be banned. Other shots are heard in the background of those videos of him, and I'm sure lots more will be heard in videos to come. Probably someday soon everyone will come to those riots packing a piece and a couple clips for good measure, and then it'll be just one big jolly free-fire zone, Second Amendment guys on one side and the military and police on the other, a final showdown between Freedom and Military Dictatorship, a video game come true. I'm looking forward to it -- but I live in Spain, where guns are largely banned, the future of the white race is of no concern whatsoever, and we watch with complacency while America descends into chaos.
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