Re:Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy
by RC_ITR on Friday December 03, 2021 @03:42PM
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Trying to flee a crowd that attempted to detain him for shooting someone.
Let's play hypothetical here. School shooter is bullied and hit in a fight. He shoots bully dead and starts running. He then shoots two people tackling him.
Is he not an active shooter?
Why are you doing such mental gymnastics to lionize this kid? You can debate over whether he should go to jail or not, but the reality is he extra-judicially killed 2 people. Doesn't that make you feel weird to defend that, even if you disagree politically with his victims?
No he didn't. He had just defended himself against two assailants, while trying to flee. He was never, at any point in time, an "active shooter".
An "active shooter" is "an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area; in most cases, active shooters use firearms and there is no pattern or method to their selection of victims."[0]
He had a pattern of selection. Kyle shot and neutralized those who were trying to kill him (or cause grievious bodily harm). That is, by definition, self-defense, not an "active shooter" event.
[0] https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/active_shooter_booklet.p...
QED.