I have to disagree with this. You're forgetting about air resistence, how much more energy is required to accelerate a heavier object (ie it will be traveling at a slower speed at impact), and how the impact force would be spread out over a larger area. That being said, I agree that either object being swung at my head would be considered deadly weapons and could kill me.
You'd prefer a crowbar to the head over the edge of a skateboard?
Are you assuming it's being swung like a baseball bat?
That's not a promotion, that's a sentence.Should be promoted to mayor of thathole city.
Given the choice I'd take a skateboard. Either way the end result is going to suck. I don't think anyone swinging a skate board is going to try to hit you with the edge on purpose, they're just going to swing it at you as hard as they can; whatever orientation.You'd prefer a crowbar to the head over the edge of a skateboard?
Man dies after being hit in head with skateboard during fight in Santa Ana Starbucks
A man was killed after being hit in the head with a skateboard in an act of self-defense during a fight in a Santa Ana Starbucks.abc7.com
I'm assuming it will just be grabbed by two hands and swung. Type of swing based on location of person's body they wish to Target vs their position. No particular sport in mind.
I believe he thought that this active shooter has to be stopped before he kills again.
Funny that Rittenhouse didn't target anyone but those trying to hurt him.
Do you really believe a 17 year old has the maturity to know who is a real threat? If he did not have that military style assault rifle he would not have been a threat to anyone. There is a reason minors are not allowed to carry firearms without adult supervision.
Funny, if he hadn't brought that AR illegally to the protest this wouldn't have happened and he could just go about beating up little girls as usual.
Yah, he somehow zeroed in, immature as he was, on the guys chasing him, physically attacking him, pulling a gun on him. Guess he just got lucky.
A bit harsh but he decided to play adult in the real world and now will face the consequences.
He could have beaten up twenty little girls before that incident and it would still come down to whether he was justified in using deadly force to defend his life. What he did before has no more bearing on that situation than y'all pointing out that the one guy was a mental patient. Now if you have proof that one of those killed was the brother of that girl and he was looking to exact some revenge that might have some bearing. Still got him killed.
Never said he was a terrorist. He obviously got in way over his head and decided to pull the trigger and killed 2 people and permanently disabled another. Those are the facts.
If he had not been armed in that situation or had not been there at all we would not be having a trial. He made several bad decisions. The Courts found that he is old enough to face the consequences of his actions.
I'm wondering if a guy is trying to bash your head in, another is pulling a pistol, and you have a gun and believe you are about to be at the very least gravely injured, do you tell yourself that you have it coming because you shouldn't have been there to begin with? Do you just let them harm you, even kill you?
Hey, PT, did you forget this?
No different then a black teenager mixed up in a bad situation and ends up either killing someone or ends up on a slab.
