RawStory: Kyle Rittenhouse launches video game where users shoot and kill 'fake news turkeys'

[clearspira]

He came looking to murder people got what he wanted and got away with it.

The elephant in the room here is that Kyle Rittenhouse was a 17 year old boy. This is not a full grown man. This changes what has taken place here.

''How did he reach this point'' is the question that you should be asking. How did someone barely out of high school who only a few years previously was still playing with toys reach the point where he felt the need to steal a gun, travel several miles across the state with the intention of shooting people? Why didn't an adult intervene? Why didn't his teachers or someone else in authority notice?

Kyle Rittenhouse was not born this way. He didn't come into this world intending to do this. Something happened, presumably between elementary and high school that made him this way. Some cancer in society, some influence, some negative experience. ''He wanted to murder people'' is such an over-simplification of what actually happened and until the easy buzzwords stop and some actual analysis starts there will be a hundred more just like him.

Personally, I would stop giving kids access to military grade firearms as a good start but that is the European in me talking. This is Kyle Rittenhouse when he was about 15 if you are wondering.

[sayla0079]

The people this man killed were hardly sterling and upright citizens of their community. I believe this all came out at trial - at which Rittenhouse was cleared of the majority of the charges against him.

Do you have any specific arguments for the position that this was a travesty of justice? Or are you just repeating sound bytes?

If he had tried to move on or learn from his mistakes then there would be no problem. The problem people have is he is milking it for everything and being treated like a rockstar people have problems with.

[Frustration]

I don't think we'd agree as to what his mistakes, if any, are.

As for acting like a rock star - he's paid the price of his involuntary celebrity, why shouldn't he also reap the benefits?

[sayla0079]

Because it basically glorifies killing.

[Thebestoftherest]

Because it basically glorifies killing.

I think the problem is that it glorified killing real people, for political gain.

[McAvoy]

The people this man killed were hardly sterling and upright citizens of their community. I believe this all came out at trial - at which Rittenhouse was cleared of the majority of the charges against him.

Do you have any specific arguments for the position that this was a travesty of justice? Or are you just repeating sound bytes?

Did he come out looking to kill these types of people? It was coincidence that he killed people who were not upstanding citizens of the community.

What if he killed upstanding citizens of the community? Would he still be cleared of the charges? Probably. Most likely.

So you bringing it up means nothing. It's just a 'sound byte'.

[sayla0079]

Because it basically glorifies killing.

I think the problem is that it glorified killing real people, for political gain.

Either way, it glorified killing . Which is not a good idea.

[McAvoy]

He came looking to murder people got what he wanted and got away with it.

The elephant in the room here is that Kyle Rittenhouse was a 17 year old boy. This is not a full grown man. This changes what has taken place here.

''How did he reach this point'' is the question that you should be asking. How did someone barely out of high school who only a few years previously was still playing with toys reach the point where he felt the need to steal a gun, travel several miles across the state with the intention of shooting people? Why didn't an adult intervene? Why didn't his teachers or someone else in authority notice?

Kyle Rittenhouse was not born this way. He didn't come into this world intending to do this. Something happened, presumably between elementary and high school that made him this way. Some cancer in society, some influence, some negative experience. ''He wanted to murder people'' is such an over-simplification of what actually happened and until the easy buzzwords stop and some actual analysis starts there will be a hundred more just like him.

Personally, I would stop giving kids access to military grade firearms as a good start but that is the European in me talking. This is Kyle Rittenhouse when he was about 15 if you are wondering.

While it is illegal for anyone below 18 to buy guns, it is not illegal for anyone below 18 to handle one. Hopefully under strict supervision.

So it is irrelevant him handling a gun when he is 15. I fired guns much younger than that. Though it was before social media so I don't have pictures posing with a gun.

[CharlesPhipps]

The people this man killed were hardly sterling and upright citizens of their community. I believe this all came out at trial - at which Rittenhouse was cleared of the majority of the charges against him.

Do you have any specific arguments for the position that this was a travesty of justice? Or are you just repeating sound bytes?

I am so goddamn sick of that argument. Your argument is a fucking joke from The Naked Gun movies.

"The last two people I killed were ones I hit with my car but, thankfully, they proved to be drug dealers."

So, Rittenhouse killed two protestors but MAGICALLY KNEW they were bad guys with his fucking paladin powers?

What the fuck is this argument?

[Frustration]

He didn't just grab a gun and start shooting people. They were threatening his life, and he was defending private property from being destroyed in a riot. Which is why he was acquitted at trial.