Shot in the Dark

Tag: Rittenhouse

  • Mark Twain On The Rittenhouse Case

    “A lie will travel around the world while the truth is waiting for its Keuirig to heat up” [1] As re the “crossing state lines”, “shooting black men”, and many other issues that the Mainstream media will be parroting until they are forced to stop, that’s exactly what is going on.

  • A Nation Divided…

    The left is reacting to the Rittenhouse verdict with the calm, dispassionate, intellectual rigor one expects of “smart America“: But remember – mostly peaceful.

  • Rittenhouse: Good News, Bad News

    I’ve had to spend a long weekend explaining to a lot of “progressives”: it’s entirely possible that not only are both of the following true: Something can be a bad idea, legally and in common sense terms, Self-defense is not only legitimate, but a very high hurdle to meet under the law in every state…

  • Word Salad With A Side Of Crocodile Tears

    Madame Vice President [1] on the Rittenhouse verdict: So – the woman for whom giggling about putting black men in jail for simple weed possession was pillow talk with Willie Brown, and who came out in favor of prosecutors hiding exculpatory evidence in death penalty cases, has been… …sorry. Couldn’t finish that with a straight…

  • Drunk Teenagers With Keys To Dad’s Bulldozer

    We’ll allow for a moment that ‘Medium.com”, when the subject is race, criminal/social “justice” or the economy, is like Tumblr for people with unsupportably high self-esteem . With that being said, this happened this morning: Now, for whatever reason it’s not loading for me at the moment, or I’d be llinking to it. I’ll try…

  • Trial And Error

    SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking through the Cub Foods on Larpenteur, gauging the level of shortage going on, when Avery LIBRELLE almost literally bumps into him. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Aw, ssshhhhhure enough, it’s Avery. How are you… LIBRELLE: People going places where people don’t know who they are, and might be angered by their presence,…

  • The Shorter Rittenhouse Prosecution Summation

    Self-defense is bad, unless you’re a rioter. Brawling is good. No, really.

  • I Shouted Out Who Killed Joseph Rosenbaum, When After All, It Was You And Me

    The Kyle Rittenhouse case – involved in jury instrucitons today, and going to final attorney summations today – is plenty complicated, but about some fairly simple questions: Did Rittenhouse instigate or participate in instigating two different deadly-force incidents in which he used lethal force on four people, with two dead, one seriously injured, and one…

  • In The Bag

    This blog was founded primarily to lend my small, relatively insignificant voice to pointing out the growing bias and ethical turpitude the mainstream media. That was in 2002 – a much more innocent time, relatively speaking. As we’ve documented the proceedings in the Rittenhouse trial, I’ve noted the scabrous, depraved slant in the coverage. Someone…

  • So Then This Happened

    During testimony yesterday in the Kyle Rittenhoue trial, Gaige Grosskreuz – the “medic” with the illegally-concealed who was shot while chasing Rittenhouse with an illegally-concealed Glock – this happened: In this, Grosskreutz admits – after a half-hour of cross-examination by defense attorney Chirifisi – that his actions justified Rittenhouse’s claim of self-defense against him, and…

  • Higher Calling

    Florida governor DeSantis proposes broadening Florida’s self-defense laws to make shooting in defense of property against looters more legally tenable. The media is howling that it would enable roaming packs of vigilantes to slaughter people on the streets. Like most media reports on expanding self-defense rights, it’s a lot more nuanced than that: The law…

  • Appeasement

    Kyle Rittenhouse. Murder.  Another tough case for the prosecution.  Sure, the prosecution has a tape of a kid shooting people.  But the defense gets a turn, too.  Here’s their opening salvo. And that’s not to mention that all three of the people he shot were convicted felons – not exactly the kind of people Kenoshans want…

  • Statement Against Interest

    “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…

  • For Posterity’s Sake

    Stipulated in advance – we don’t know yet how the Rittenhouse case in Racine is going to end up. Acknowledging up front that Berg’s 18th Law is in effect, it would appear that Rittenhouse’s first shooting might just be problematic, and that the second two appeared to be textbook legitimate self-defense. Of course, earlier we…

  • Rittenhouse

    I get it. If you’re a businessperson, a law-abiding citizen, a resident of a place like Minneapolis or Saint Paul or Kenosha, you might be getting a little tired of being siultaneousy treated like a villain, a sucker and a pop-sociology punching bag. And seeing the entitled, upper-middle-cass, over-schooled, undereducated “progressive” thugs and the depredations…