Quote Originally Posted by jcb View Post
Two things are true:

1. He was not guilty under WI law.
2. He's no hero.

Riot suppression is for trained LEOs. Rittenhouse didn't impose order, he left a trail of carnage and blood. Two of the people he shot thought he was an active shooter.

When you turn a fool into a hero, others are going to follow his example. Making a hero out of this foolish young man will mean more blood in the streets.
But he did what he had to do when Rosenbaum chased him at full speed. Kyle was not an amazingly fast runner as you can see in the videos shown during the trial and on TV. He was slow. And Those that attacked him in the street with a rock to the back of the head and then a skateboard wielded like a baseball bat to Kyles's head as he sat on his butt in the street were wrong. They thought he was a shooter, and they were right. But he shot Rosenbaum in self-defense. Remember that Rosenbaum said that he would kill Kyle earlier in the evening. So, Kyle had every right to be afraid of a 36-year-old crazy man who was charging full speed at Kyle. And Kyle stopped with Ziminski fired a gun near him and behind Kyle who was running away. Kyle stopped to see where the shot came from, and Rosenbaum jumped at him and Klye took Rosenbaum out. I watched the trial from the point where Grosskreutz was testifying and then went to court TV to see the other testimony before that point. I watched the trial since that time on several different channels. I watched it on HLN too.

So, the men that got shot had not business attacking Kyle and had to be nuts to attack a man with a loaded AR15. They tried to sneak hits to Kyles's head and take away Kyles AR15 in the street and played Vigilantes and it cost one his life and another the use of his right arm for the rest of his life.

Watching CNN right now and the talking head thinks that everyone is taking this as an OK to take an AR15 to gun protest in the street. Van Jones said that. But he is dead wrong. Already people are taking AR15 to the streets. Some even take their guns to the State capitols as well. If the authorities want to stop this from happening, they are going to need a lot more voters to get that done because they will need to get three-fourths of the state legislatures to vote to change the second amendment to the US Constitution and then get the Congress to vote to change the 2nd Amendment. And when the SCOTUS hears the New York City vs gun club case in a few weeks or months the entire country will need to rethink all these unconstitutional gun laws.

Look at the history of Rosenbaum and Huber the two who were shot. Both had police records and spent time in either jail or prison. Rosenbaum had just been released from the local hospital as he tried to commit suicide a day before this all happened. Rosenbaum was a convicted child molester in AZ or TX. I can't remember which state. But he did time in prison and was a hardened criminal. He was nuts. Anyone that chases a kid carrying an AR15 and says that he wants to kill the kid is nuts to charge at the kid. The kid had to shoot Rosenbaum. And Ziminski and his wife told the crowd to get Kyle after he Shot Rosenbaum. Zimenski was the one that fired the shot from a hand gun he was carrying that night right before Kyle Shot Rosenbaum. And Zimenski and Rosebaum were together that night setting cars and dumpsters on fire. So they were arsonist too. Rosembaum would be in jail now for arson if he were not dead.