The whole thing is a mess. A minor crossed state lines to participate in a riot as a law enforcement LARPer. The rioters are criminal by their nature. He knew what he could get into when he brought that gun, and that involved potentially killing rioters.
National guard should have been there and the police shouldn't have been so passive. Riots should have been stopped by actual law enforcement, or adults in the community protecting each other. No kids from other states coming in at all to participate in ANYTHING riot-related.
The "militia" he joined was not even there to protect the community; they wanted to direct the riots to federal buildings.
Really, the whole thing is a mess and nobody should be glorifying any of it. It was a LARP gone horribly wrong.
Remember Simpothy McVeigh. He started out LARPing on the Antifa side and his grandmother even bought his vest. He thought he was doing something good and that he looked cool. He ended up throwing an IED a federal building and celebrating, then said he didn't know it would be that bad.
Riots are dangerous for anybody and if you have no real reason to be there, then don't.
Something I think is important to remember about the 'crossing state borders' thing is that Kyle Rittenhouse lived in Antioch IL, which is on the very northern tip of the state and actually only about half an hour away from the sight of the protests. Looking at Google Maps, there's less than a mile break between the two town's suburban areas.
This kid pretty much did the equivalent of driving from Carrollton to Dallas, it just happens both cities sit on opposite sides of a state boundary.
If only more American cities had mayors, governors, and police chiefs, that actually wanted to help their citizens instead of virtue signal or willingly make things worse for the sake of progressivism.
Until then, more events like this are bound to happen and will likely increase in frequency and severity.
Hockey night opened with a very long glorification of BLM, saying the sport should use their platform to do alot more of insert marginalized underprivileged victims of systenic racist opression -CLICK.
And I went to do something else, then watched something that wasen't preachy lies aiming to gaslight me.
I think it'd blow a lot of people's minds to realize how young a lot of volunteers in WW1 and 2 were, or any war, for that matter. Sure, at the beginning of the war, guys obviously too young to shave will be turned back, but as it drags on, a draft is initiated, and the army gets desperate? They'll take anyone who seems willing and able to point a gun at the enemy. And adolescents are always out to "prove" themselves, it's a kind of law of nature. And war is how an apex species with no predators or diseases gets culled ... and as the thrill kill kultists will tell you, it's the young males that are amongst the "excess" you want to get rid of. Especially the stupid ones. Well, it culls the most aggressive, anyway.
Audie Murphy, aka the most famous US soldier of WWII, falsified his birthday so that he could join the Army. He was too young to join otherwise. WWII is absolutely jam packed with stories about kids lying about their age to join the military to get revenge on the "Japs".
That being said, I will by no means ever try to compare the kids of then to the kids of now. All the kids back then had to grow up really fuckin' fast because all their families were dirt poor and they all had to go to work to support their families. People these days are eternal children by comparison.
He knew what he could get into when he brought that gun
I am by no means excusing his actions, but teenagers aren't known for their ability to think ahead. Besides, if what I'm reading about him is true, he was explicitly on the side of the rioters.
There are two possibilities here for things that were going through his head as far as I can see. One is that he never in a million years thought that there was a possibility he'd have to shoot people on his own side, neglecting to take into account his own skin color. Two is that he thought that in the event that the rioters came to burn down the property he was protecting, the mere sight of someone with a gun would scare the rioters away.
I think it was more like he was on his own side and thought everyone would be on the same page as him. You're right about them not thinking far ahead, but I can only sympathize to a point. This was months into riots across the country that have escalated and had people shooting on both sides under different circumstances for all of them. If he was going to scare people, he would not take a loaded gun. He is reported to have been shooting for years now, so he knew it was something that could happen.
In this case, being an outside participant really should have snapped him back into reality. He had to pick a side from a side he couldn't even confirm was there. He chose a pro-riot group and essentially had no recourse once he was in. This is something he should have figured out before his drive over the state line.
The whole thing is a mess. A minor crossed state lines to participate in a riot as a law enforcement LARPer. The rioters are criminal by their nature. He knew what he could get into when he brought that gun, and that involved potentially killing rioters.
National guard should have been there and the police shouldn't have been so passive. Riots should have been stopped by actual law enforcement, or adults in the community protecting each other. No kids from other states coming in at all to participate in ANYTHING riot-related.
The "militia" he joined was not even there to protect the community; they wanted to direct the riots to federal buildings.
Really, the whole thing is a mess and nobody should be glorifying any of it. It was a LARP gone horribly wrong.
Remember Simpothy McVeigh. He started out LARPing on the Antifa side and his grandmother even bought his vest. He thought he was doing something good and that he looked cool. He ended up throwing an IED a federal building and celebrating, then said he didn't know it would be that bad.
Riots are dangerous for anybody and if you have no real reason to be there, then don't.
Something I think is important to remember about the 'crossing state borders' thing is that Kyle Rittenhouse lived in Antioch IL, which is on the very northern tip of the state and actually only about half an hour away from the sight of the protests. Looking at Google Maps, there's less than a mile break between the two town's suburban areas.
This kid pretty much did the equivalent of driving from Carrollton to Dallas, it just happens both cities sit on opposite sides of a state boundary.
If only more American cities had mayors, governors, and police chiefs, that actually wanted to help their citizens instead of virtue signal or willingly make things worse for the sake of progressivism.
Until then, more events like this are bound to happen and will likely increase in frequency and severity.
Hockey night opened with a very long glorification of BLM, saying the sport should use their platform to do alot more of insert marginalized underprivileged victims of systenic racist opression -CLICK.
And I went to do something else, then watched something that wasen't preachy lies aiming to gaslight me.
I think it'd blow a lot of people's minds to realize how young a lot of volunteers in WW1 and 2 were, or any war, for that matter. Sure, at the beginning of the war, guys obviously too young to shave will be turned back, but as it drags on, a draft is initiated, and the army gets desperate? They'll take anyone who seems willing and able to point a gun at the enemy. And adolescents are always out to "prove" themselves, it's a kind of law of nature. And war is how an apex species with no predators or diseases gets culled ... and as the thrill kill kultists will tell you, it's the young males that are amongst the "excess" you want to get rid of. Especially the stupid ones. Well, it culls the most aggressive, anyway.
Audie Murphy, aka the most famous US soldier of WWII, falsified his birthday so that he could join the Army. He was too young to join otherwise. WWII is absolutely jam packed with stories about kids lying about their age to join the military to get revenge on the "Japs".
That being said, I will by no means ever try to compare the kids of then to the kids of now. All the kids back then had to grow up really fuckin' fast because all their families were dirt poor and they all had to go to work to support their families. People these days are eternal children by comparison.
People who TRY TO BE ETERNAL CHILDREN (obsessive gaming addicts) are more mature than an entire fucking political party At this point!
I am by no means excusing his actions, but teenagers aren't known for their ability to think ahead. Besides, if what I'm reading about him is true, he was explicitly on the side of the rioters.
There are two possibilities here for things that were going through his head as far as I can see. One is that he never in a million years thought that there was a possibility he'd have to shoot people on his own side, neglecting to take into account his own skin color. Two is that he thought that in the event that the rioters came to burn down the property he was protecting, the mere sight of someone with a gun would scare the rioters away.
I think it was more like he was on his own side and thought everyone would be on the same page as him. You're right about them not thinking far ahead, but I can only sympathize to a point. This was months into riots across the country that have escalated and had people shooting on both sides under different circumstances for all of them. If he was going to scare people, he would not take a loaded gun. He is reported to have been shooting for years now, so he knew it was something that could happen.
In this case, being an outside participant really should have snapped him back into reality. He had to pick a side from a side he couldn't even confirm was there. He chose a pro-riot group and essentially had no recourse once he was in. This is something he should have figured out before his drive over the state line.
If one participant gets off the hook, they all get off the hook. Injustice anywhere something something...