it’s actually scot-free. A scot is a tax.
To me, Kyle Rittenhouse trial has to be the most American thing ever, grabbing your assault rifle and heading into a heated situation for no reason whatsoever than that predictably resulting in a death and getting off scott free, that’s something that can only happen in the USA
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 5 days ago
*scot-free
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Everything that led up to the killings was fucking heinous, but in the end, a jury of his peers saw the video evidence and deemed it self defense. I’ve watched the videos and I agree.
“He shouldn’t have been there.”, isn’t a legal doctrine. Still, I’m surprised the prosecutor couldn’t have found some angle there. Isn’t there some, “looking for a fight” idea?
If I go down to my MAGA neighbor’s house, kick on his door, talk shit (non-physically threatening shit) and he attacks me, I wouldn’t feel too safe shooting him. IANAL, but I know the prosecutors were, so I have to bow to their professional judgement.
And whatever happened to his mom or uncle or whoever buying him a gun? I know it was across state lines, but still, the purchase in itself was legal, and you can certainly gift a gun. There was a law clearly broken there, I think Rittenhouse being underage in that state for that weapon? Why wasn’t the purchaser hung from the fucking rafters?!
What is perhaps more heinous is that the little fucker is able to milk his notoriety. He should be shunned by both the anti-gun and pro-gun crowd, no one should give two shits to hear him speak. (He is shunned among liberal gun nuts like me.)
Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 days ago
Sorry, but, umm…you are aware that “gun nut” is not a compliment, right? Nor a neutral term. It’s pretty directly an insult towards people who oppose common sense gun regulation à la Australia. Because they are “nuts”, meaning crazy.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
In my area of California while the crazy element is still present it generally means they mod their weapons in particularly volatile or weird ways, maybe they have an obsession with a particular era of weapons as well. Honestly it’s a pretty informal term where the only useful measurement is that most folks who could be described as gun nots probably press their own ammo.
So it can be a neutral term depending on region at least, either that or my Redneck is showing. Frankly speaking though I have seen folks (usually yuppies) throw fits because folks have either rare or “scary” looking firearms, apparently there was an incident at a gun range relatively near me where some stupid bitch called the cops cause a dude pulled out a Browning Automatic Rifle.
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah and the dreaded F word was an insult but that’s what all my gay friends called each other in the day.
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 5 days ago
I think we can rest easy on that. Every time you hear about him now it’s just a laughingstock. I don’t think he’s in a great financial situation, and has completely failed at public appearances so he isn’t going to get political power. He’s more of a painted pony that the repubs can trot out every now and then.