MJ Adia
Nov 20, 2021

I am glad you brought Zimmerman into this. I was thinking today about how the case seems like an extreme extension of Stand Your Ground, and the Castle Doctrine. What I mean by extension is that it argues that anyone with a gun has the right to kill because they must be threatened if they needed a gun. Add white supremacy to it, and the Rittenhouse dish is served hot. They are claiming that he feared the gun would be used against him, so again, back to self defense, but in a different twist. If you kill with a gun, you were afraid enough to fire, even if the other person has no weapon.

MJ Adia
MJ Adia

Written by MJ Adia

Black-Filipina. Lived in Peru for 5 years. LICSW, dancer, meditator. Writes about multiculturalism, cinema, race, social issues.

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