Kyle Rittenhouse abruptly departed the stage during an appearance at the University of Memphis on Wednesday, after he was confronted about comments made by Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk.

Rittenhouse was invited by the collegeā€™s Turning Point USA chapter to speak at the campus. However, the event was met with backlash from a number of students who objected to Rittenhouseā€™s presence.

The 21-year-old gained notoriety in August 2020 when, at the age of 17, heĀ shot and killed two menā€”Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, as well as injuring 26-year-old Gaige Grosskreutzā€”at a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

He said theĀ three shootings, carried out with a semi-automaticĀ AR-15-style firearm, were in self-defense. TheĀ Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest where the shootings took place was held afterĀ Jacob Blake, a Black man, was left paralyzed from the waist down after he was shot by a white police officer.

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    Right, because property is more important than people.

    Your only way of disparaging these people is ā€œthey were damaging property!ā€ Which last I checked did not carry the death sentence.
    Put them in front of a jury and a death sentence would be monstrous, put them in front of a vigilante and ā€œthey had it coming for stealing!ā€

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      3 months ago

      ā€œProperty is more important than peopleā€ is a phrase being thrown around by the Left to try and make the Rittenhouse situation into something it isnā€™t. He didnā€™t go there to kill anyone. He went there to help defend stores, like 1000ā€™s of others did throughout the country (remember during the LA riots, Koreans sitting on top of their stores with guns? Were they horrible because they cared about their belongings?). He was attacked by some low lives who fucked around and found out.

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        3 months ago

        He went there to help defend stores

        And how was he going to defend the stores? With a gun. Anyone who knows anything about guns will tell you: you do not point a gun at a target you donā€™t intend to kill.

        So he went there to shoot people in order to protect property that wasnā€™t even his and he had no connection to.