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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
No, just someone who understands how to deal with threatening situations I guess. I can't help it if you guys are dense and don't realize the last thing you want to do is take on an individual with any weapon, and the best course of action is to run, hide, then fight. If pushed into a situation where you have to fight, then make it on your terms.
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I believe you're applying your hero-complex hypothetical to a situation where we can watch what actually happened.
Rittenhouse was running away. Was being swarmed by a crowd yelling to "beat his ass". He was punched in the head. Unfortunately for everyone he tripped (or maybe lost balance due to the earlier hit to the head 2 seconds prior). A person tries to jump kick him, another wails him with a skateboard and a third pulls a gun out on him. All within a matter of seconds. It's not a hypothetical situation where he could have hid behind a trash can, he was on the ground being attacked.
I mean I wanted to villainize him because of his actions after the incident where he was throwing up his racist signs with his racist buddies and previous comments about wanting to shoot looters and hoped he was found guilty. But when you look at his actions that night, as stupid as he was for going and going with a gun, he was the one trying to run away each time.
He got pepper sprayed, he didn't shoot because he recognized it as non-lethal. He saw a protestor injured and offered medical help. He was by all accounts "ambushed" by Rossenbaum who had already threaten to kill him earlier that night and he ran away from him until Rossenbaum caught up. He then tried to run away from a murderous crowd who quite literally were trying to stomp on his head when he fired at his attackers. I don't know, stupid for being there, easy to see why he got off.