If you go somewhere and WAIT TO BE ATTACKED, it doesn't matter if you were there waiting to be attacked. It doesn't actually even matter if you start the fight (with some stipulations). If you back down or try to retreat, and someone refuses to stop attempting to impose extreme physical harm on you or threat to life, YOU ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO LET THEM KILL YOU.
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And MOST of the group Kyle was with had guns. Many of the protestors not involved in the incident likely had guns. Most of them at no point fired their weapons.
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Because the existence of a gun does not immediately mean someone will use it. Even in situations of high tensions.
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Kyle did not use his gun until he was attacked by a person.

Also purrs

I'm not here to judge

Face your fears. Pee into the wind.

MEGA

If they refuse to retreat and put you in imminent danger of extreme bodily harm or death, absolutely
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That's literally what self defence is.

At this point what you're doing is feeling deliberate. You're choosing your ignorance.
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To what end I cannot say. But it's honestly really bizarre because it's not the kind of behavior I'd typically associate with you.

Step 10: nearly have your life destroyed by ignorant, opinionated people who refuse to even verify 2% of the shit they spout off about as if it is fact

And once again incorrect on even the most basic things.
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Step 1: be asked to come help prevent rioters from attacking a business
Step 2: drive 21 miles into a town you work in and members of your family live in (for comparison David Groskowitz, whose name I will never spell right, drove 51 miles to be there)
Step 3: be given an already loaded rifle for your protection
Step 4: Be confronted by arsonists, vandals, pedophile, convicts, and other criminals
Step 5: have the above make threats on your life
Step 6: offer medical aid to your fellow human beings, and attempt to put out fires set by the above criminals
Step 7: Be attacked by the criminals who, after threatening your life, attempt to take your weapon, and attempt to use lethal force on you repeatedly, and aim their own weapons on you
Step 8: Fire in self defence. Attempt to retreat. Be chased down. Be prevented from reaching the police. Fire some more.
Step 9: be arrested and profiled based on the color of your skin

I haven't been able to figure out why the show is so popular.
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The animation is ugly and lackluster, the voices, characters, and noises range from mediocre to outright annoying, and there is nothing in the story that I saw that couldn't be found in several dozen other shows :s

This kind

And if the video showed so plainly what the prosecution claims it shows, they had no reason to keep it from the defence anyway.

The Justice system is not there to put the guilty behind bars first and foremost. It's there to keep us from turning into a Salem witch trial.
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That's the reason it exists. These checks and balances exist FOR REASONS. And neither the defense nor prosecution is allowed to subvert them FOR REASONS.
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And, to quote a lawyer, it is not the prosection's job to so desperately want to send people to prison they will manipulate the facts to make it happen by any means necessary. It is their job to let the facts speak for themselves.

"ok, so it was "uncompressed" or whatever, so it doesn't matter that it shows Kyle aiming his gun first?"
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No. Because that's not the issue remotely.
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The video could show rosenbam begging for his life on his knees and Kyle cold-bloodedly laughing as he pulls the trigger and it wouldn't matter.
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Because the prosecution fucked. Up.
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The prosecution denied the defendant the right to a fair and thorough defense.
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The prosecution deliberately made a mockery of the Justice system, and if they can do that and get away with it, there IS NO Justice system.
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Even if you think Kyle should go to prison
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Okay? What about the next person they do this to? And the one after that? How long until it's anyone they feel like, guilty or innocent?

Oh, and Kyle wasn't "standing in the street."
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He ran to put out a goddamn fire with a fire extinguisher that the mob (including his assailants) had set.
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He ran to offer medical aid.
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He STOOD on a car lot.
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You are so damn FIXATED on the fact that he had a rifle - LEGALLY - that you are not even bothering remotely to examine literally any other thing that happened

Iccarus stop for two seconds and just ask if you have any idea what the fuck you're talking about.
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Have you looked into this case AT ALL? Have you even TRIED?
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If this is the video I'm thinking of then, no, it doesn't show Kyle aiming the gun first.
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And, if I have my facts correct, it doesn't actually show where the Ziminskis are at all.
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Why is this relevant? Because:
1) the Ziminskis had a gun on them and had pointed it at Kyle
2) the Ziminskis are the ones the prosecution claim Kyle threatened with the gun to begin with
3) The prosecution didn't even call the ziminskis to testify (I WONDER WHY)
4) the prosecution couldn't even say "Kyle pointed his gun at" anyone specific. They said "at.. People." Because they knew the video does not show Kyle pointing a gun at the ziminskis.

You know it's a possibility. And you know the people doing the gunfire, injuring, and killing are government sanctioned terrorists that will leave buildings to burn and people to die inthe streets.
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You may have the ability to stop some of that peacefully.
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So, naturally, you go there in nothing but titey-whiteys and a t-shirt with a huge hippie peace sign on it so you can absolutely make sure nothing about your presence will accidentally provoke the UNMEDICATED CRIMINALS AND ARSONISTS into trying to CAVE YOUR HEAD IN