A Brief Guide for the Perplexed – 7 Things That Aren’t Self-Defense
(Kyle Rittenhouse (R) puts up a White Power hand sign while posing for a photo and wearing a t-shirt reading “Free as Fuck” after being released on bail following his arrest for shooting three and killing two at a Black Lives Matter protest, which he claims he committed in self-defense.)
A brief guide for the perplexed – 7 things that aren’t self-defense:
If I were to go into your house with a weapon, then kill you because you were startled and hit me.
Taking a gun, stalking an unarmed child for blocks, disobeying police orders to cease stalking him, then shooting the child when he turns around and tries to fight the armed adult who has been chasing him.
Me walking up and pointing a gun at you, then shooting you after you shoved me away for pointing a gun at you.
When a police officer tells a child to drop their weapon, the child does so, turns around and surrenders with their hands up, and the police officer shoots and kills the unarmed child.
It isn’t self-defense when you illegally invade a country with your military and then kill the inhabitants of the country when they fight back against your occupation.
It wouldn’t be self-defense if I heard about a fight going on the next state over and ran towards it, armed to the teeth to join the fight, then got shoved and chased away so decided to shoot people.
It wasn’t self-defense when Kyle Rittenhouse armed himself illegally with a rifle and methodically drove through multiple cities, and across state lines with that rifle and subsequently shot and killed multiple un-armed people.