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2020-08-29 Fifth Column
Shooting in Kenosha Just the Beginning of Civil War in America, Says Prediction Expert
[PJ] Anyone could have seen this coming. The question that should be asked after an armed man shot two rioters on the streets of Kenosha is, what did you expect? Here’s the scenario: mobs of criminals are torching and looting the private businesses of Americans all over the country and local law enforcement won’t stop them. Not only will they not stop them but anyone who is arrested is released immediately to do it all over again the next night (see Portland). Did you expect that this could go on without more violence? How did you think it would end? Where was this going—social change to utopia? Cities are burning. New York City is now a place no retailer will go. How much more of this did you think people would take?

Here’s the bad news. Kyle Rittenhouse, whom we know nothing about, is only the beginning of what is to come. It’s going to get much worse, and people like me who are anti-war and want nothing but peace with my countrymen are about to become severely disappointed.

Any speculation on Rittenhouse’s motives is total stupidity in the fog of war when facts are indecipherable from lies. Don’t attempt it. Let us just look at the general climate in which this tragedy occurred. And I use the word "tragedy" somewhat reluctantly because all involved in this, especially the government officials who let it happen, deserve exactly what they got.

If you go out to protest in an environment where you know there is looting and mayhem, I don’t care what happens to you. Not even a little. Photographic evidence appears to point to self-defense. It’s too soon to tell but it appears from these photographs that at least one of the people who was shot was holding a gun.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-08-29 02:42|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Kyle is Pro-shop material https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/The-Kenosha-Shootings
Posted by newc 2020-08-29 03:23||   2020-08-29 03:23|| Front Page Top

#2 newc, I can’t find the Kenosha shootings file at your link.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-08-29 07:56||   2020-08-29 07:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Welcome to Bleeding Kansas

Stop teaching history, learn nothing. History doesn't exactly repeat it self. However, human behavior is consistent. It's like rivers, you see patterns, you see flow, you see back eddies. You know where it is going. You know you are headed for a sandbar or the rocks.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-08-29 08:03||   2020-08-29 08:03|| Front Page Top

#4 #3 Welcome to Bleeding Kansas

Kyle is a much more appealing John Brown: completely defensive, shooting only when attacked and in fear for his life.

The country's not evenly divided this time around. Normal people everywhere oppose this insurrection. Won't be that hard to put it down
Posted by Clem Hupusoting9862 2020-08-29 08:10||   2020-08-29 08:10|| Front Page Top

#5 newc's link (probably). Thanks, newc!
Posted by Cremp the Obscure2766 2020-08-29 09:37||   2020-08-29 09:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Impressive. Thank you, newc for the link and Cremp the Obscure2766 for the followup.

I had no idea a fluid close quarter combat situation could be seen and described in such detail. My respect for military, police, and Old Patriot’s career in visual analysis has gone even higher.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-08-29 12:55||   2020-08-29 12:55|| Front Page Top

#7 All gardens must, from time-to-time, be weeded.
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-08-29 13:07||   2020-08-29 13:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Re #5 newc's link

Extraordinary. Amazing how far we've come since Zapruder. That collection of 22 synchronized vids and 40+ high quality photos is Zapruder to the power of ten
Posted by Jumbo Platypus1352 2020-08-29 13:22||   2020-08-29 13:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Just learned a new term: Kenosha Hat Trick
Posted by Rex Mundi 2020-08-29 13:38||   2020-08-29 13:38|| Front Page Top

#10 ^LOL

I didn't see any evidence in the videos of Kyle picking up his brass, so they've got him dead to rights on multiple counts of littering. Jaywalking's a possibility too. And why isn't Lefty facing assault charges?
Posted by Matt 2020-08-29 13:56||   2020-08-29 13:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Grab a beverage and 30 minutes, read newc/Obscure's link.

Rex, another thing going around is a play on the Mogadishu Mile.

Run 700 feet.
In the dark.
Chased by an angry mob.
With a partial mag.
No reloads.
No equipment.
No help.
Only controlled shots.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-08-29 14:01||   2020-08-29 14:01|| Front Page Top

#12 I don't mean to trivialize the barbarity by the left but I still think this quote is apropos: "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-08-29 14:27||   2020-08-29 14:27|| Front Page Top

#13 #12 I fully agree, and I wish Kyle had not been in Kenosha that night, for his sake if nothing else. I merely observe that the apparent evidence does not support the severity of the charges against him. Or, put differently, if charges that severe are warranted against Kyle, the rioters are being seriously undercharged.
Posted by Matt 2020-08-29 14:50||   2020-08-29 14:50|| Front Page Top

#14 "Says Prediction Expert"
Who turn out to be Scott Adams.
Who draws Dilbert.
Who is generally correct.BUT.
(This just seemed like a strech.)
Posted by ed in texas 2020-08-29 16:01||   2020-08-29 16:01|| Front Page Top

#15 Is it too soon to build a statue of Kyle in Kenosha?
Posted by bbrewer126 2020-08-29 17:52||   2020-08-29 17:52|| Front Page Top

#16 I had the same question around the campfire the other night the analyst does - what was he doing out there by himself.

The best unsubstantiated answer/story/rumor I've come across is that there was a dumpster fire next to a business and Kyle took a fire extinguisher to it, drawing the ire of the PedoAttacker.

It isn't a great answer as it still requires a loss of situational awareness - call of duty, youth, adrenaline, didn't see a threat, combo there-of or whatnot, and it almost cost him his life; it is unlikely PedoAttacker would have gone easy on cornered prey from from help and witnesses.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-08-29 21:06||   2020-08-29 21:06|| Front Page Top

#17 ^ very plausible.
Senor Ped0 / RedShirt / CapriPants was enraged by something or some act. Dumpster fire extinguishment is likely.
Posted by Javiting Jarong8477 2020-08-29 22:16||   2020-08-29 22:16|| Front Page Top

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