Thread by @lone_rides

Since gun control advocated, race hustlers, and other willfully uninformed people want to keep flapping their gums, let's talk Rittenhouse.

Let's start with the basics.

If there had been no riots, there would have been no Kyle Rittenhouse.

There never should have been riots in the first place.

The riots were stoked by Communists, race hustlers, and the media (I know, I know - same things) without regard for facts.

Cops were called to a domestic incident where JB was.
JB had an outstanding warrant for sexual assault. JB was tased twice but not restrained. JB went to a vehicle to retrieve a knife. He was shot then.

He wasn't Brionna Taylor, asleep in bed with no warrants.

He wasn't Atatiana Jefferson playing video games with a nephew.

None of Jacob Blake's crimes merited a public execution, but rather than letting himself be arrested for the warrant, he chose to go after the knife.

Agree/disagree, whatever.

The fact remains that a riot "in his honor" was entirely wrong.

Let's move on to the violence.

If the mayor or governor had demanded the protests stay peaceful, there would have been no Kyle Rittenhouse.

Protesting is your right as an American. Many of the protests that have happened, even over the summer of 2020, were peaceful events.

Marching, chanting, holding signs, giving speeches - these are the hallmarks of protests and have been known to change minds and hearts.

Riots are not protests.

Destroying businesses and buildings simply because they are there does not actually convince anyone you're right.

It's violence against a community.

It's instilling fear through violence rather than convincing through rightness.

It's untargeted terrorism.

Rather than step up and protect the citizens of Kenosha, the city leaders and governor gave the rioters room to destroy.

Why? Perhaps they thought the riots would burn themselves out. (They didn't) Perhaps the riots would decrease in violence. (They didn't) Perhaps they thought the media would turn the attention away from their deriliction of duty (They did)

The bottom line is that the elected officials failed the people they swore to protect.

They bear the guilt of every burned building or bloodied body.

Let's now look at the rioters.

If there had been no felons on the street rioting and burning things, there'd have been no Kyle Rittenhouse.

It's not illegal to be a felon. Once you've served your time, you are released and can resume a somewhat normal life.

However...

These three individuals should not have been within miles of the riots. Why did they feel comfortable there?

Why did Rosenbaum, just released from a hospital following trying to commit suicide, feel that a violent and destructive riot was the place he should be?

Why did domestic abuser Huber feel comfortable in a violent and destructive environment if he was as good of a man as he's been heralded?

Why did Grosskreutz, a convicted felon, feel it was acceptable and necessary to carry an actually-illegal-for-him-to-possess-firearm into a violent situation?

If none of these violent men had been at the riot, if they had been shunned or rejected or told to go home because of their violent tendencies, then all three would still be alive instead of just one, and G wouldn't be a lefty now.

These were adults. Men with lives and experiences. Why should the burden to "choose something different" be placed on the 17 yr old when grown-ass men chose to be violent?

They willingly stepped into a violent situation. Why?

Because they expected no resistance.

They were predators hunting prey.

They were lions in search of easy lambs.

They took their lives into their own hands when they showed up that night.

They should accept responsibility for their actions and no one should mourn the fact that they sacrificed their lives and body part for the chance to be destructive, to cause chaos, and to hurt people.

Let's look at the end.

If there had been no gun, there'd have been no Kyle Rittenhouse.

No, I don't mean "If Kyle didn't have access to an AR15, there wouldn't have been a shooting."

I mean "If Kyle didn't have access to an AR15, there'd have been a dead 17 yr old kid who just wanted to help."

Kyle could have picked a handgun.

Except that those are illegal for a 17 yr old to possess in public.

Kyle could have picked a shotgun.

Except that control and spray pattern could have caused collateral damage.

Kyle picked a rifle that 1. he was comfortable with 2. he could control 3. he could be fairly sure of hitting what he aimed at 4. he was legally allowed to carry in public.

You don't have to like that he carried a gun into a violent situation. But before you get there, you have to explain away how the violent situation came to be and justify someone setting a dumpster on fire and trying to push it into a gas station.

Kyle agitated the rioters by putting out fires.

That is why they were chasing him.

I'm not going to go into his defense. The court case was public. Go watch it. Read transcripts.

But for anyone to blame a 17 yr old for killing 2 and disarming a third without looking at all the failures, all the lies, all the evidence of everything that led up to the moment he feared for his life is to dismiss reality, to hate on a teenager because he's not on your side.

Oh, and anyone saying "OTHER COUNTRIES" can shut up.

Surrender, giving in to the mob, staying quiet as your lives are destroyed may be in your DNA, but it's not in ours.

And if you're an American and it is in yours? Move.