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 collegeā€™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 Rittenhouseā€™s presence.

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

He said theĀ three shootings, carried out with a semi-automaticĀ AR-15-style firearm, were in self-defense. TheĀ Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest where the shootings took place was held afterĀ 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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    8 months ago

    So the plan was to threaten people with a gun and people are surprised he got attacked?

    Did kyle threatened people with their gun? Open carry =! brandishing

    What do you think the plan would have been if someone ignored the gun and went after damaging property anyway?

    They yeah they would have fucked up if they fired on that person.

    Unless theyā€™re by a vigilante or a cop giving someone a death sentence. Then they ā€œhad it coming.ā€

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      Did kyle threatened people with their gun? Open carry =! brandishing

      usually just having people armed is enough to deter others from looting, thatā€™s more likely what they expected to happen.

      And why does having a person with a gun deter looting? Because itā€™s an implicit threat that they will get shot. Hence, ā€œthreateningā€.

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        Are you for real arguing that armed people protecting a place are a threat to you and therefore you can use that as justification of self defense if you attack them? lmao.

        ā€œYes your honor, this guy with a gun was a threat to my looting therefore I attacked them and because they fought back I killed them in self defense, yes they tried to flee but I still killed them anywayā€

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          I am arguing that only an idiot points a gun at someone they donā€™t intend to kill.
          In the same vein I am arguing that only an idiot brings a gun somewhere to ā€œprotect propertyā€ if they donā€™t intend to use it. (Whether they ā€œwant toā€ or not is irrelevant, if whatever situation they consider appropriate arises, they intend to shoot somebody.)

          For someone to bring their gun somewhere they have no good reason being in order to ā€œprotect propertyā€ they need to be ready and willing to use it or they are too fucking stupid to be allowed to have a gun.

          Which goes back to my original point: ā€œyou can take lives to protect property. You can not damage property to protect lives.ā€

          The property of complete strangers was more important to Rittenhouse than the lives of the complete strangers he would be shooting in order to ā€œprotectā€ it.