T-Day Convo: He's guilty! Took a *MACHINE GUN* across State Lines!!!

Before dinner, I brought up that crazy Women's March $14.92 apology. That somehow got my Brother-in-Law (who often makes off subject replies) to say something about how Rittenhouse should have been found guilty. OK, he opened the door, not me.

So I say something about the evidence, get the not-unexpected "Well, he shouldn't have been there!". I told him I'll engage in that as a separate conversation, but guilty/not-guilty is a legal matter, and has to be based on the evidence and law. "Well, he shouldn't have been there." (shrug)

Then Sister-in-Law (his wife) jumps in, shouting: "He's GUILTY! He carried a MACHINE GUN across state lines!"

Oh my. I wasn't even going to bother with the distinction between a Machine Gun and a semi-automatic rifle. I told her he never took a gun across state lines, it was legal for him to have the gun (no gun charges were allowed) and told her that is a fact. And how can she be so certain of guilt when she doesn't know the facts of the case - a young man could spend most of his life in jail, he needs to be judged on the evidence (which the jury correctly did).

Again, no surprise, but she goes off in a huff rather than respond. It's really scary to me that people can form such a strong opinion w/o knowing anything about it.

Well, for the rest of the people there, I did get a chance to repeat my usual lecture that when you hear something on the news, ignore it unless you are going to dig into the source info to find the real truth. The media, any media, cannot be trusted. And I got a chance to paint a better picture of Jacob Blake, that the story didn't start with "shot in the back while getting in his car", and got into the long rap, pedo charges on the attackers. Gee, just co-incidence that they ALL had rap sheets, while Kyle's record is one of cleaning graffiti?

And they get to vote. Scary, scary, scary.