Kyle Rittenhouse abruptly departed the stage during an appearance at the University of Memphis on Wednesday, after he was confronted about comments made by Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk.

Rittenhouse was invited by the college’s Turning Point USA chapter to speak at the campus. However, the event was met with backlash from a number of students who objected to Rittenhouse’s presence.

The 21-year-old gained notoriety in August 2020 when, at the age of 17, he shot and killed two men—Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, as well as injuring 26-year-old Gaige Grosskreutz—at a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

He said the three shootings, carried out with a semi-automatic AR-15-style firearm, were in self-defense. The Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest where the shootings took place was held after Jacob Blake, a Black man, was left paralyzed from the waist down after he was shot by a white police officer.

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    he was at the demonstration to “protect businesses and provide medical assistance.”

    Remember kids: you can take lives to protect property. You can not damage property to protect lives.

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          Yeah, but the shots were in self defence, even though he shouldn’t have been there

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            So back to my comment:
            He can go there, with his gun, to potentially take lives to protect property.
            This is because the protestors are not allowed to damage property to protect lives.

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              8 months ago

              WTF are you smoking? The dudes ATTACKED HIM FIRST… damn man…seems like you guys just insist on ignoring the facts.

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        8 months ago

        Yea, but you’re on Redd…I mean, Lemmy… so, the looters, arsonists and burglars get a pass…

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          Right, because property is more important than people.

          Your only way of disparaging these people is “they were damaging property!” Which last I checked did not carry the death sentence.
          Put them in front of a jury and a death sentence would be monstrous, put them in front of a vigilante and “they had it coming for stealing!”

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            “Property is more important than people” is a phrase being thrown around by the Left to try and make the Rittenhouse situation into something it isn’t. He didn’t go there to kill anyone. He went there to help defend stores, like 1000’s of others did throughout the country (remember during the LA riots, Koreans sitting on top of their stores with guns? Were they horrible because they cared about their belongings?). He was attacked by some low lives who fucked around and found out.

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      8 months ago

      Remember kids, you can riot, burn, and loot… as long as it’s “for a good cause.”

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        The Boston tea party is taught to every single kid in this country, give me a break. We’re a country built on rioting burning and looting.

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          Lol…okay, let’s compare the Boston Tea Party to people taking part in criminal acts in their own communities…