The very 1st rule of gun safety is that you never handle a firearm without first verifying whether it is loaded.
You never present a firearm to anyone without demonstrating whether it is loaded, and whenever a firearm is presented to you, if the breach has not already been opened, you should open it to verify whether it is loaded.
The 2nd rule is that you NEVER point a firearm at ANYONE, loaded or unloaded, unless you intend to shoot them.
The 3rd rule is that you never put you finger into the trigger guard unless you are prepared to pull the trigger.
The only one of these rules that there is not irrefutable evidence that prosecutor Thomas Binger violated in a court of law, is whether he checked to verify that the AR15 was not loaded.
Whether he checked or not is not easily verifiable through search engine queries, but whether or not he knew beyond a doubt that the firearm was unloaded at the time, he absolutely violated the 2nd, and 3rd rules. There are pictures of him pointing the rifle, toward people, in the courtroom, with his finger inside the trigger guard.
This activity, regardless of his motivation, is egregious, careless, and is likely reckless endangerment. The fact that someone of so little concern for others is authorized to prosecute judgement in a court of law, is a miscarriage of justice, in and of itself.
If criminal charges are not warranted against Binger for his conduct in the Rittenhouse trial, removal from his position certainly is!
God bless you, Dave
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