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    I’ve seen people comparing the DOJ response to Luigi Mangioni and Kyle Shittenhouse. The fact that Rittenhouse is free should tell you everything you need to know.

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      1614 hours ago

      Well the difference is that while both actively premeditated their murders whoever committed the crimes Mangioni has been accused of is far more of a menace because they had a specific target in mind and even worse it was someone rich instead of just anyone protesting the police tendency to murder.

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        1312 hours ago

        Rittenhouse attacked 3 people, that’s 3x the danger. But I guess I forgot to count up their net worths.

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        811 hours ago

        Rittenhouse didn’t premediate his shooting though? Where do you guys get your information about this?

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          119 hours ago

          He deliberately brandished a weapon to incite bystanders to try to defend themselves so he could kill them and call it self defense.

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          I don’t think other commenters bothered to watch the trial.

          He was acting foolish but he certainly didn’t commit pre-meditated murder.

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          You don’t straw buy an AR then pick it up and cross state lines with it going to a known chaotic protest without premeditated “self defence”.

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            Carrying a gun is “premeditated self defence”? Are people only supposed to carry guns where it is safe? What is the purpose of that?

            So many people pushing this ridiculous idea he is guilty for not staying at home, quaking in his boots. Right to self defense and to bear arms literally exist so that people don’t have to fear walking outside because of asshat violent criminals and rioters.

            And even more ridiculous saying the police and prosecutors didn’t care. What do you mean? They went after him with everything they had. It was a jury of his peers that told them to f off with that shit.

            But I guess lemmy only likes juries if they nullify actual murderers they like, not when they let go an innocent person they don’t like. (I don’t like Rittenhouse either, but that does not make him a murderer.)

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              Everything they had? He’s still alive. That’s more than most shooters get.

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            Yeah and you don’t get acquitted of that either. Also one of the surviving “victims” doesn’t blow the prosecution’s case by being honest in your scenario. That look of defeat photo is priceless.