According to Thomas Massie, the seventeen-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse showed "incredible restraint" because he could have just emptied his magazine into the crowd and committed even more mass murder. How considerate.
Source: Louisville Courier-Journal
Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie in a radio interview Thursday defended the 17-year-old who fatally shot two protesters and injured a third in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last week, saying he acted in self-defense and showed "incredible restraint."
Kyle Rittenhouse has been charged with two counts of first-degree homicide and several other felony counts after traveling from Illinois to Kenosha on Aug. 25 and shooting three protesters, two of which died.
A self-described militia member, Rittenhouse shot the protesters after days of unrest in the city following video that went public of Jacob Blake being shot in the back seven times by a police officer.
"He also exhibited incredible restraint and presence and situational awareness," Massie said on WVHU, a talk radio station in Huntington, West Virginia. "He didn't empty a magazine into a crowd."
Good God.
Republican Congressman praises Kyle Rittenhouse: “Incredible restraint and presence and situational awareness. He didn’t empty a magazine into a crowd.”
In other words: he was a very discriminate murderer.https://t.co/RsJ71zICjg pic.twitter.com/f5mAEVaxjl— Ian Sams (@IanSams) September 4, 2020
