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.
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.