Kyle Rittenhouse abruptly departed the stage during an appearance at the University of Memphis on Wednesday, after he was confronted about comments made by Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk.
Rittenhouse was invited by the collegeās Turning Point USA chapter to speak at the campus. However, the event was met with backlash from a number of students who objected to Rittenhouseās presence.
The 21-year-old gained notoriety in August 2020 when, at the age of 17, heĀ shot and killed two menāJoseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, as well as injuring 26-year-old Gaige Grosskreutzāat a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
He said theĀ three shootings, carried out with a semi-automaticĀ AR-15-style firearm, were in self-defense. TheĀ Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest where the shootings took place was held afterĀ Jacob Blake, a Black man, was left paralyzed from the waist down after he was shot by a white police officer.
And why does having a person with a gun deter looting? Because itās an implicit threat that they will get shot. Hence, āthreateningā.
Are you for real arguing that armed people protecting a place are a threat to you and therefore you can use that as justification of self defense if you attack them? lmao.
āYes your honor, this guy with a gun was a threat to my looting therefore I attacked them and because they fought back I killed them in self defense, yes they tried to flee but I still killed them anywayā
I am arguing that only an idiot points a gun at someone they donāt intend to kill.
In the same vein I am arguing that only an idiot brings a gun somewhere to āprotect propertyā if they donāt intend to use it. (Whether they āwant toā or not is irrelevant, if whatever situation they consider appropriate arises, they intend to shoot somebody.)
For someone to bring their gun somewhere they have no good reason being in order to āprotect propertyā they need to be ready and willing to use it or they are too fucking stupid to be allowed to have a gun.
Which goes back to my original point: āyou can take lives to protect property. You can not damage property to protect lives.ā
The property of complete strangers was more important to Rittenhouse than the lives of the complete strangers he would be shooting in order to āprotectā it.