Where’s the Humanity?
Admittedly, this is more of a message for my friends and family that find themselves on the other side of this thing. So, those of you that are regulars around here can excuse my ranting for the time being. I just have to vent.
I’ve grown to understand that gun culture is going to be a thing. I’ll never condone it but I understand it exists. I’ll never understand the point of view that someone can bring a gun into a situation, openly carry it, wave it around, and then claim self-defense when something bad happens. I’m not a lawyer or a legal scholar, so I’ll just have to argue that from a purely logical/philosophical point of view.
So, the legal justifications for what happened in Wisconsin are what they are. I wasn’t in the court room. I don’t know what the full slate of evidence looked like. Maybe the jury had no other choice given what was presented to them. What I will never get is the beating of the chests after the fact.
If you are justifying the deaths of two people based on mistakes they made previously in their life then you are a despicable human being. No one deserves to die like that. It doesn’t matter what they had previously done. The kid couldn’t have known their criminal history and didn’t even know if they had looted, rioted, or burned anything down. Even if they had they didn’t deserve to die anymore than this kid.
How anyone can be happy about anyone losing their life and then call themselves pro life is beyond me. That road is a bottomless pit of human depravity. It is the last bastions of any kind of tenous hold on a smidgeon of moral authority. Whether anyone thinks this kid is legally responsible, he is morally responsible. We are responsible for everything we do in this world.
I’m told he wants to become a nurse. My sincerest hope is that he can make the most of this opportunity he doesn’t deserve. Maybe, just maybe he can save enough people to come somewhat close to making up for the two lives he took. I’m not sure how that is even possible, but I don’t wish anything bad or nefarious happen to him. This isn’t about him anymore. It’s about the rest of us and whether we can gain some perspective of things. I’m really trying hard to do it right now.
He wants to become a nurse? With all the media attention the Rittenhouse case has generated, is it possible that he can still pursue that career? He caused the deaths of two people, in a place he shouldn’t have been, with a firearm he shouldn’t have been carrying. Is there a hospital who would hire him? If I’m hospitalized, his is not the face I want to see in attendance.
1The ones that died were demonized and per the judge, they were not the victims. The killer is becoming the conservatives hero. He’ll be bankrolling his new found celebrity attending right wing events while the victims’ families grieve. This is so upside down.
2I don’t know with his acquittal if a nursing school would accept him. Perhaps becoming Gaetz’s little pet rock would be easier.
3I’m afraid his chances of realizing his dream of being a nurse are a hell of a lot better than a lot of people think they are, although he strikes me as the kind of kid who is not going to be willing to do any of the hard work to get there. Cosplay has always been a lot easier for him than doing the work of getting his GED and joining the military or putting in the time to be a paramedic or joining the military. Nursing school is a slog and I’d be shocked if he made it under ordinary circumstances.
Circumstances aren’t ordinary now, Burned out front line health care workers are quitting in large numbers and hospitals and other facilities are going to be desperate for warm bodies to fill staffing requirements. He might just squeak by.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/caught-in-the-middle-what-happens-when-frontline-workers-leave-the-workforce/ar-AAQOvcu
4Nick.
There’ve been times when you’ve been told you’re too long winded in here.
I don’t remember saying so myself, but will admit to thinking it occasionally.
This is not one of those times.
5I hope he does become a nurse, preferably in an ER, where he might see the results of gun violence.
I realize we might not want to be his patient right now, when it’s fresh, but we all know this will fade, his appearance will change, we will forget.
But he would be in a female-dominated caring profession. He might start to see some nuance in things as he matures and learns from his teachers and colleagues. He might even come to truly see the errors of his youthful ways and speak out to teenagers like he was.
This might be his best chance at rehabilitation. Isn’t that better than following in Gaetz’s footsteps?
6Guns don’t kill people, GUNS make it WAY TOO EASY for dumb ass morons to kill people!!! rottenhouse is too much a coward to use a knife and do it up close and personal. It is too easy to stand 100yards away and just squeeze a small piece of steel and not look into the victims eyes. And now some dimwitted jury and judge as elevated rottenhouse into a hero!
7Karma has a way of sneaking up and exercising justice.
8“What I will never get is the beating of the chests after the fact.”
Nick, did see Madison Cawthorn’s video tweet right after the verdict came out?
Be armed, be dangerous, be moral.
This is on Politico today.
IMHO it gets to heart of the political situation we’re in now.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/11/21/josh-hawley-madison-cawthorn-jd-vance-masculinity-523136
9It’s frighteningly obvious that some of y’all still don’t get it. You’re still trying desperately to normalize people who –Want you DEAD!–
[…Wouldn’t it be luverly if young Kyle became a nurse…JFC on a cracker. WTF, another effing ‘angel of death’?].
Goddamn it, what will it take to get the message through?
Rittenhouse is one of these fascist RWNJs below, so is his vile mother and the rest of them. You cannot ever seek ‘normalized’ relations with these vermin.
BTW, FYI, Fox News and -ucker Carlson literally indirectly bankrolled lil’ Kyle’s defense team…
This means YOU [just one of many of the latest warnings, of which I’ve been preaching for years]:
“Nazis Call for Dead Leftists to be ‘Stacked Up Like Cord Wood’ Following Rittenhouse Acquittal”:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/20/2065335/-Nazis-Call-for-Dead-Leftists-to-be-Stacked-Up-Like-Cord-Wood-Following-Rittenhouse-Acquittal
And y’all think that you can ‘get along’ with them?
They only understand one thing, and you need to be better prepared than them.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/20/2065414/-Were-FOX-News-and-Tucker-Carlson-Directing-and-Bankrolling-the-Kyle-Rittenhouse-Defense
10And ol’ El Jefe just posted an article on the TWMDBSInc, essentially agreeing with me, mas o menos:
https://juanitajean.com/rittenhouse-verdict-the-logical-result-of-terrible-public-policy-time-to-change-tactics/
Yeah, it’s damned sad it’s coming to this condition, but the RWNJs aren’t going to give up until they get their ‘Civil War II’, even if they don’t have a clue how it’s going to go down.
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