Rex Kerr
1 min readNov 28, 2021

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I don't know why you'd want to take such a depressing and inaccurate message away from the verdict.

We're supposed to be a nation of laws. In Wisconsin, the laws include that you can carry a rifle, and almost everywhere the laws include that you can defend yourself, even lethally, against violent aggressors.

Add these two things up and you might get stupid tragedies--and this time we did--but you don't get anything about white supremacy or who can get killed. Everyone gets to do this.

Andrew Coffee IV got that same right to defense, for instance.

All you manage to accomplish by writing stuff like this is to sound misinformed and like you prefer populist mob thinking to a democratically legislated legal system. It's a really bad look. It does nothing to advance racial justice--quite the opposite, as if people followed your logic then you would have to worry a lot more about hard-core white supremacists.

I am sorry that you're worried, but sometimes concerns are actually unjustified. This is one of those cases.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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