Although I agree with the verdict and it is a huge indictment on the media, one of the rules when you take a concealed carry class is avoid a situation where you may need to use force. I don’t see Rittenhouse as a hero but more of a case of a kid who made a bad decision and put himself in a situation where he had to use deadly force to protect himself
But I do believe he has a case against the media. And I think MSNBC is going to be in some hot water for their little stunt in trying to photographed jurors
For now, Merrick Garland is busy investigating parents at school boards meetings.
Sometimes the problem comes to you. What provoked the violent reaction to Kyle? Putting our a burning dumpster the "mostly peaceful protesters" were fixing to push into a building. He retreated, was pursued and attacked, left with no choice but to defend himself, he did.
Now, you can throw all the 'what ifs?' out there you want, but suppose that was your business, your town, your neighborhood that had people running rampant, His main purpose there, despite being armed, was not to shoot people, but to clean graffiti off of walls and
deter violence. Apparently, some people thought attacking a guy who was conspicuously armed was a bad idea. It isn't like they didn't know what they were doing. At some point, people who attack a guy who isn't really bothering anyone, who is obviously capable of defending himself, have to be responsible for the results of that attack. It's on them. And every other stupid sonofabitch out there that thought looting and rioting and burning part of the town were good ideas, too. And the stupid media that promoted the riots, along with the stupid politicians who, instead of calling for the rioters to disperse and go home, fanned the flames by supporting bail out funds for those committing criminal acts.
TO be sure, there were others who could have prevented the situation, but blowing any of this back on a guy who had come there to clean crap off of walls and try to keep peoples' property intact is just wrong.
If you want to blame someone, blame the Media, the Politicians, who directly supported this, the leaders of ANTIFA and BLM, the local lieutenants who organized and started the "protests", those who could have kept it from getting out of hand but did not deploy the assets they needed to shut the crap down, and it is that way in EVERY City that had riots last year.
In our little town, the BLM protest had a counter protest across the street. BLM people shouted and ranted and waved signs at cars, while other folks who live here cruised the streets and alleys looking for piles of construction materials that might be misused, and across the street, a group even larger than the BLM group sat quietly on their pickups and motorcycles, conspicuously armed, mostly with AR-15s, chatting with police, and just sending the message that our town was not going to put up with the crap seen elsewhere. Not one window was broken, no fights broke out, and everyone had their say.
An armed society is a polite society, after all.
That phenomenon was repeated in other towns in Western North Dakota,and in those towns, there was no looting, no violence, and no one got shot, either. Maybe our protesters were just smarter.
