Sullying Self-Defense

killings in kenosha

You may have heard that in Kenosha, Wisconsin last week, one guy shot two other guys to death, and shot out a third guy’s right biceps.

Immediately the Low-IQ Left was shouting “murder!” and the Low-IQ Right, “self-defense!” They had made up their minds when they saw what side the parties were on (the shooter was purportedly in Kenosha to protect property from rioters, the shootees to protest; generally the Left identifies more with the latter and the Right more with the former.).

As rationale, the Midwit Right focused on the criminal histories of the shootees; the Midwit Left focused on the fact that the shooter had “crossed state lines” with a firearm, and was (because of his age) not allowed to possess a firearm in Wisconsin.

(Cain and Abel, Lorenzo Ghiberti. Possibly not self-defense.)

Then the New York Times did a timeline of the shootings, and the Kenosha Police Department filed a criminal complaint (pdf), which included a lengthy probable cause statement. Both documents agree that…