[BoLevi]

Originally Posted by #-3

American creates a society where it is acceptable ney encouraged to put yourself in situations where you are likely to kill people, the tells you it's not your fault when you kill people, then more people feel they are walking into life and death situations and kill eachother.

The chain of causation is very direct, and it's relatively easy to benchmark this logic, with dozens of peer countries where showing up to a protest with a riffle killing people would not make you a hero, it would make you a criminal.

The lack of civic responsibility from the government that was displayed in the Rittenhouse decision was not sufficient but certainly contributes to all future incidents where people who should not be threatening eachother with deadly weapons are threatening eachother. It is very comparable to climate change, driving a km in your car did not cause hurricane x to damage house x, but driving cars does increase the amount of property damage in many hurricanes. So to claim there is no link between the government saying there was no wrong doing and things like that happening more often is to be deliberately obtuse, understanding that a problem has been fostered by bad choices and it will take substantial
and sustained effort to undo the damage is the least we can do.

But instead we've got Bo pretending from the comfort of his dungeon, he would be perfectly happy to live in a place where one could implicitly threaten him with a weapon, because as long as nobody explicitly threatens him, no wrongdoing. It's a very sad state.

Making it illegal for people to defend themselves against assault will not make society a better place.