Man shot at pro-Israel rally in Newtonville; suspect arrested at scene

On the internet, no one knows you're a psychopath

People have differing opinions about who suffered the prime injustice in Judea and Samaria. We are the land of liberty with not theoretical freedoms and our first freedom is the freedom of speech. That freedom makes us vulnerable to one of Hamas’s and their paymasters’ aims of attacking our freedoms and dividing our people. Hamas, the Islamic Jihad et al. are labouring for both themselves and for their paymasters: Iran, the Arab States, Russia, China and others who are realizing great return on their investments. Again, there are competing injustices and actors playing on our base and higher differences, contests and schemes. I’m not a fan of lowering the flag to half mast for average citizens. Lower it for Memorial Day, the Passing of a high Constitutional officer, but since we do lower the flag to mark small passings it was very telling that the Biden-Harris administration did not lower it for the Americans murdered on 10/7 and this speaks to the politicization of our national symbols and represents a waypoint on the slippery slope of demeaning and surrendering our humanistic values for transactional politics. We’re not perfect, but our freedoms are an existential threat to repressive regimes. Sure, we’ve done wrong, but we’re a people rooted in justice, freedom, and liberty and we will hold open the space of freedom for as long as possible. And, may the day not come, where like Porthos, we can bear the load no longer.

You can only use deadly force in self-defense if confronted with potentially deadly force, which a fist fight or wrestling match usually isn't.

That's the jury instruction, anyways. The jury will sort it out.

The "violating Constitutional rights" charge seems erroneous.

Dude runs across four lanes of traffic and tackles someone, "but he was goaded".

The purpose of the Second Amendment was to provide for the common defense (compare Article XVII of Part the First in the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts); hence the "well regulated Militia" that was supposed to take the place of a standing army.

This was a bad idea even in 1787. The same colonial militia that drove the British out of Boston in 1776 were quickly defeated by the British just a few months later in New York and driven clear across New Jersey. It was only geography that had allowed them to oust the British from Boston, and the subsequent course of the war demonstrated that only a professionally trained army can win a major war against another such.

Screw the Second Amendment, and screw the corrupt so-called Justices who value an asshole's right to carry a gun over our right to live in safe neighborhoods.

Rittenhouse was part of a quasi-vigilante mob taking law into their own hands, running wild and and open-carrying, which can be a form of incitement and quite threatening in that particular milieu. A peaceful call for the release of hostages is not cause to forgo concealed carry and speech should trigger no one into committing assault. Suppose the concealed-carry victim had spinal stenosis, or any condition including old age, are people supposed to let any violent attack just play out? Bottom line: be civil and don’t attack people for speaking freely.

I thought the protest was calling for a release of the hostages held by Hamas. The shooter apparently took exception to this, to the point of goading one of the protesters into attacking him. He is allegedly and soi-disant "pro-Israel"; one can only speculate what his beef with the protest was.