• blackbelt352@lemmy.world
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    My guy, he crossed state lines with a firearm that wasn’t his, to go to a protest where the only people injured and killed were by his trigger finger because he put himself that situation. That’s not defending yourself. He’s functionally a home invader crying over the dead body of the homeowner he killed because the homeowner brandished a skateboard.

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      3 months ago

      No, no, his friend bought him the gun because he couldn’t buy it himself. But somehow that wasn’t a straw purchase.

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      He’s functionally a home invader crying over the dead body of the homeowner he killed because the homeowner brandished a skateboard.

      poor analogy.

      Home invaders want to rob and those in the homes are innocent victims, and it was a glock, not a skateboard.

      I have little tolerance for looters and vandals, some of whom might be wp:agent provocateurs.

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          He’s referencing Gaige Grosskreutz who had a Glock. Anthony Huber was the one who attempted to use a skateboard as a bludgeon. Joseph Rosenbaum attempted to take Rittenhouse’s rifle after he had tried to distance himself.

          https://youtu.be/GrVKqTCdM-A

          Grosskreutz was hit in the arm and testified to aiming his pistol at Rittenhouse during the televised trial.