{"id":75252,"date":"2020-09-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75252"},"modified":"2021-11-16T10:27:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T16:27:18","slug":"statement-against-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75252","title":{"rendered":"Statement Against Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Prog” columnist looks at the statute and the evidence, concludes Kyle Rittenhouse will likely be acquitted<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t disagree – and find that there’s ample grounds for caution for all the rest of us that take the Second Amendment seriously. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I homed in on these two passages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When [the first “victim”, Joseph] Rosenbaum, who was unarmed, finally cornered Rittenhouse, he grabbed for the teenager\u2019s gun. Multiple shots rang out, and Rosenbaum fell, mortally wounded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Did Rittenhouse have a\u00a0reasonable<\/em>\u00a0belief under the circumstances that if Rosenbaum got his gun he would suffer death or great bodily harm? Jurors in Wisconsin are\u00a0instructed\u00a0<\/a>that \u201creasonable\u201d means \u201cwhat a person of ordinary intelligence and prudence would have believed … under the circumstances that existed at the time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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And this bit here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A third victim, Gaige Grosskreutz, 26, of West Allis, Wisconsin, who survived, first held up his hands in a gesture of surrender at a distance of a few feet. In one of his hands, he held a gun. But when he \u201cmoved toward\u201d Rittenhouse, prosecutors said, Rittenhouse fired, striking him in the arm.<\/p>

That final shooting \u201cwill be the most serious problem\u201d for Rittenhouse at trial, Kling said. \u201dThe guy did have a gun in his hand. But he wasn\u2019t pointing it at or threatening Rittenhouse.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

My first carry permit instructor, the last Joel Rosenberg, used to put it this way: “You’ll be making a life-or-death decision in a split second, likely under incredible stress, in the dark, with incomplete information. The prosector will have weeks and months in a warm, well-lit building, protected by metal detectors and deputies, to decide whether you were right”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another of Joel’s sayings: “Shooting in self-defense is a choice between losing your life, and ruining it”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because while there’s a lot of rhetoric about deterring the madness, to say nothing of resisting it, it’s still incredibly risky, and under normal circumstances – and even some garden-variety extraordinary ones – best avoided<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overwhelmingly I hear from the professionals that their plan for dealing with riots and mayhem is “Don’t be there.” Check the ego. Back away from the social media siren call to “be part of the solution.” Inserting yourself into a riot (AKA “war zone”) where we now know there are armed violent criminals (often felons) who are there with the expressed intent to do extreme violence to someone is, in my view, just foolish.<\/p>

It’s said that good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement. I sure have found that to be true a lot of times. In flying, we say you have a skill bucket and a luck bucket. You hope to fill your skill bucket before using up everything in the luck bucket.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For your consideration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Prog” columnist looks at the statute and the evidence, concludes Kyle Rittenhouse will likely be acquitted. I don’t disagree – and find that there’s ample grounds for caution for all the rest of us that take the Second Amendment seriously. I homed in on these two passages: When [the first “victim”, Joseph] Rosenbaum, who was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,377,1,22],"tags":[442,265],"class_list":["post-75252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-the-second-civil-war","category-uncategorized","category-victim-disarmament","tag-rittenhouse","tag-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75254,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75252\/revisions\/75254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}