The connection seems pretty obvious to me. Person feels angst about other people in the vicinity, person gets firearm, person goes to public place and shoots strangers full of holes...
If you feel the need to split hairs and claim Rittenhouse is on one side of a line and this kid is on another, well, good luck to you. Rittenhouse's actions are indefensible, regardless of how thoroughly his own residence or the place he traveled to were being policed. The whole point of having more police present would, as I see it, be to prevent incidents like this, not to accomplish them by police means. There is no ground here for vigilantism to stand on.
There never is. There certainly wasn't when armed groups of vigilantes went onto the farmland of my ancestors in Oklahoma and plundered their homes and hauled the men away for the crime of being German immigrants during World War I. And there ain't now.
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Date: 2/12/21 22:44 (UTC)If you feel the need to split hairs and claim Rittenhouse is on one side of a line and this kid is on another, well, good luck to you. Rittenhouse's actions are indefensible, regardless of how thoroughly his own residence or the place he traveled to were being policed. The whole point of having more police present would, as I see it, be to prevent incidents like this, not to accomplish them by police means. There is no ground here for vigilantism to stand on.
There never is. There certainly wasn't when armed groups of vigilantes went onto the farmland of my ancestors in Oklahoma and plundered their homes and hauled the men away for the crime of being German immigrants during World War I. And there ain't now.