Kyle Rittenhouse is neither a hero nor a villain. On August 25th of 2020, 17-year-old Rittenhouse was a scared kid volunteering to provide security to a beleaguered car dealership owned by the Khindris. The family did not specifically ask Rittenhouse for help, which is a fair point of discussion, and provides context.
So Easily Avoided
Given the exculpatory evidence available (both eye-witness and video, for Heaven’s sake) the Prosecution’s insistence in charging Rittenhouse at all should go down as one of the most puzzling decisions in realm of criminal justice. But it won’t. Because we don’t live in a world where we weigh evidence and make rational decisions based on law. We live in a world where prosecutions are political and assistant DAs look at every case through the lens of “will this help get me to the United States Senate of The Governor’s Mansion?”
With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, we can discuss the stark paradox manifested in the actions of Rittenhouse. His motivations were noble, bubbling with all the idealism of youth. His judgement was suspect and grossly naïve. In his mind, Rittenhouse lived in a world where simply brandishing a weapon should have been enough of a deterrent. Reasonable perhaps under normal circumstances. Realistic under the circumstances of the Summer of 2020? In a world were where your nation’s enemies have carte blanche to burn and loot? Perhaps not.
Reality provided him with a punch to the face.
Unlike the hapless Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger, I don’t think “everyone takes a beating,” or even that everyone should take a beating. I will occasionally joke that everyone should take a punch to the face, just to see how it feels. When I do quip like this, I would assert that I have something a little milder in mind than what Rittenhouse went thought that night, nor his subsequent torment at the hands of the Wisconsin’s “criminal justice system.”
Lesson One
If you bring a weapon to a violent event, you might have to use it. Don’t be surprised by this. Rittenhouse was genuinely astonished at having to fire his rifle in order to preserve his own life. That, all by itself is all you need to know about the young man. This fact also screams “case dismissed with extreme prejudice.”
Lesson Two
Firearms shoot real bullets, and make for significant equalizers. This one is for you, Marxists. Rittenhouse was a smart kid making a stupid decision. I’ve made plenty of them in my life. Clearly none of them fatal. Yet. Convicted child molester and alleged child rapist Joseph Rosenbaum, on the other hand was simply too stupid to live. Literally. Not literally in the way the enemies of the United States misuse the term (i.e. Trump is literally Hitler), rather literally in the provable way in which events played themselves out. The Word directs me to love my enemies. So,, here’s some love: Make your next protest truly “mostly peaceful.”
Lesson Three
Never grab a rife by the barrel when that rifle is held by someone else. Refer to my thesis that Joseph Rosenbaum was literally too stupid to live. Call this a tertiary lesson if you must.
Lesson Four
You don’t get to learn from all your mistakes. Some mistakes are simply that egregious. Joseph Rosenbaum might be alive today if Eagle Eddie had been allowed to visit his classroom growing up. He might have learned a few things about firearms safety. Same goes for Anthony Huber who also paid for his stupidity with his life.
Lesson Five
If you push someone far enough, sometimes they push back. This requires some context. In the Summer of 2020, the enemies of the United States used the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin as a pretext to burn and loot in several metropolitan areas. In August, Kenosha, WI police shot and maimed Jacob Blake. Again, enemies of the United States seized the opportunity to attack business, loot, and burn. This was more localized, and prior to Blake sustaining his injuries, most of us outside the Mid-West had heard of Kenosha.
We’ve all heard that perception equals reality. How many looters did law enforcement arrest and charge. last summer in connection to the riots in our cities? I don’t know. Many Americans simply perceived (understandable given the sympathetic new coverage) that the savages were given the run of the place. I think most big-city blue-check-mark politicians were simply hoping that this would just exhaust itself. Some Americans, on the other hand perceived that the police were either overwhelmed or simply ordered by their paymasters to not enforce the law. Some took what they thought were reasonable, innocuous steps to protect life, liberty and property.
Kyle Rittenhouse did not know that Joseph Rosenbaum was a convicted child molester with mental health issues. Rittenhouse has no way of knowing that Rosenbaum possessed a mis-wired brain, unable to reason out cause and effect, or relate consequences to actions. The multiple allegations of child rape following Rosenbaum clearly show that this was not a man who understood consequences. And as far as the Kenosha riots are concerned, why would he? Why would anyone expect that of any Leftist? For weeks and months, they burned the cities of the United States with barely any perceived consequences. Why would the night of August 25th be any different?
Except it was.
State Of The Union
There are 434 million registered firearms in the United States. (Maybe that’s a bonus lesson). Consider that number versus actual gun crimes. Americans tend to be responsible. Take away the gang violence in cities like Chicago. One can only marvel at the astonishing restraint of Americans. Even when confronted by a mob bent on hurting him, likely intent on killing him – because, why not? – Kyle Rittenhouse’s first instinct was that of restraint. Until as a 17-year-old boy he was given the choice of either sacrificing himself or defending himself.
Selah.
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