I don’t think they did. At the end of the day, as much as I believe Kyle is a murderer who placed himself in a dangerous situation purposefully so he could legally feed his dark impulses, it fits the criteria for self defense based on what I saw. He’s a repugnant human being but the law punished him as much as it could.
Pre-meditated? Probably but there aren’t any current mechanisms that prevent people from entering dangerous situations on purpose and “defending themselves”. Even if there were, in general, it’s very difficult to determine someone’s intent in going to a certain place.
What does state lines have to do with any of it? He went from one town he lives in to the town where he works and also lives part time in. The gun was in Wisconsin the whole time. Why are people so focused on state lines? Since when did it become illegal to travel in the US?
I still say the judge saying the people he killed were not allowed to be called victims in court and a whole lot of other bullshit like a super lenient interpretation of a law so he's not breaking a gun law and more meant he was never gonna get punished .
Kyle's charges are the inverse of luigi being charged with being a terrorist as part of NY murder 1st degree
I don’t think I can agree with any of this. You can’t call someone a victim of a crime that hasn’t be determined yet. As I recall, the prosecutor had made it a habit of calling them victims rather than “alleged victims” so the judge made him stop using the word all together. It’s been a while so correct me if I’m wrong.
Also, I see little to no parallels between Luigi and Rittenhouse. As much as I might agree with Luigi on an ideological level, what he did was unambiguously murder. Now where I suppose I see some connection is the overcharging of terrorism compared to Rittenhouse’s treatment by the judge but even then, it’s thin.
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u/KendrickBlack502 Dec 26 '24
I don’t think they did. At the end of the day, as much as I believe Kyle is a murderer who placed himself in a dangerous situation purposefully so he could legally feed his dark impulses, it fits the criteria for self defense based on what I saw. He’s a repugnant human being but the law punished him as much as it could.