Sorry for replying so late into this. A few here have me blocked though.
I don't know how anyone could kill people and not be even slightly remorseful for it. Slightly sociopathic if you ask me.
I would have to agree having been in some traumatic situations of all kinds, including being in the military, which has caused me to ask just what I would do.
Some just do not want to even think about what they would do. Especially because of their own experiences. They just simply react. And that is sad given how how easily it is to react without thinking.
This is the case with both Rittenhouse and his attackers. Rittenhouse was there with a gun to cause trouble though...
Rittenhouse was expected to know that one of the people attacking him had mental health issues?
...so your case with another user here is to me irrelevant.
Rittenhouse had no compassion just to bring a gun there, much less to use it when he had no need to be there.
His actions in bringing a gun was to promote vigilanteism, rather than his explanation of defense of either himself or that of the surrounding businesses. And is the problem with his actions.
If he was in his home, or on his own property that would be a separate case. If he was to carry any weapon for just his own self defense it most certainly wouldn't be any kind of rifle. It would be a hand gun rather than a AR-15 type gun. Just his parading around with it with was to intimate rather than defense of any business.
Having been in the military and been well qualified with many weapons though would have disqualified me from any jury.
And that by itself is a law problem. For this issue of why that weapon was used was never brought up in trial. The jury itself was hand selected. No person that had military weapons training could pass that particular jury selection.
Now to the people that were shot.
The empathy explanation works many ways. Some might say they had no empathy for not doing anything about the situation. And by inaction they had no empathy.
As I have said I have been in many situations. There were times I might have wanted a gun, yet after the military I never had a need for any gun. And I actually had unknowingly lived with murderers.
This is why the gun and weapons issues are so sensitive though. And careful thought should be used before just giving a weapon by not only the user yet as well as the society at large.
The case where I could have wanted a gun?
It wasn't the murderers. It was a mountain lion. Yet I was fortunate in avoiding it. It was known to have killed others and was eventually shot.
