The Differences Between Kyle Rittenhouse, Daniel Penny, Luigi Mangione Lets TAKE A LOOK

This is a pretty interesting question. Let’s TAKE A LOOK.

Kyle Rittenhouse shot three people, killing two and wounding one, and tried to shoot another (‘jumpkick man,’ later identified as Maurice Freeland). Rittenhouse’s defensive shootings are of such legal clarity, I think it’ll be taught in criminal defense classes for years to come. In each shooting, he undoubtedly had the right to defend himself, and could articulate the threat. In each shooting, he used only the necessary force (which is why Grosskreutz lived after being disarmed, pun not intended) to stop the threat.

The prosecution’s case was literally built on lies and a willfully dishonest portrayal of literally every fact involved in the incident.

Daniel Penny is an arguable self-defense case, with some fun misdeeds by government actors like the Medical Examiner rushing to make a statement without having all the facts. But I would argue, as would many, that he’s right in holding Neely until he stopped struggling or was taken into custody. And, as his team argued, there’s quite a bit of question about what killed Neely, who, according to at least two witnesses, was breathing when Penny released him.

Luigi Mangione had no excuse. Indeed, he didn’t even have an articulable personal beef with Brian Thompson (at least, not that we have thus far discovered). He didn’t have United for health insurance. He didn’t personally know Brian Thompson. He wasn’t one of those unfortunates who end up not getting health care because they’re poor. Indeed, he lived the life of an overprivileged member of the upper crust, descended from a family that owned golf clubs and assisted living facilities (by the way, if there is any medical/healthcare business more ghoulish than insurance, it is easily assisted living facilities). He received quality medical care for his surfing injury, but there’s only so much we can do these days for injuries to the spine and brain, and it seems like the idea that he would have to live with an injury from his ‘extreme sport’ lifestyle angered him and set him a-tizzy.

My reading of his situation, as it stands today, is that Luigi was mad and wanted to make a name for himself, and suspected it was never going to happen in any other facet of life. And how dare medical science is not so advanced as to make him whole again after he was injured doing an activity that is, yes, dangerous. Kid’s a spoiled brat.

So, in order, you have ‘justified, justified, and unjustified’ homicides.