Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty

It really only requires explanation if you are against the concept of legitimate control on children having access to lethal weapons. I am not against such a concept.

I'm not sure I buy the story that Rittenhouse had explored the legality of holding such a gun in advance of doing so, all the armchair experts knew he was legally entitled to do so and yet it took until just before closing arguments for a defense motion to have the charge dismissed.

Rittenhouse and his friend both testified that Rittenhouse had give his friend the money to buy the gun, and the friend would then hold it in trust and allow him to use it periodically for trap shooting, hunting etc. until Rittenhouse turned 18, by which time the gun license he had applied for in Illinois would have come through. There are several pictures of Rittenhouse having guns in his possession when he was younger. Whatever you think of guns and gun culture in general, I don't think it's a stretch at all to imagine that he knew the law as it pertained to him. The same way that someone who fishes knows about fishing licenses and laws but someone who's never fished probably doesn't.

As for the fact that the motion to dismiss the possession charge wasn't brought until the end, that is simply strategically astute. Had the prosecution hinged much of their arguments on him "illegally" possessing the gun, the defence would have had that to point at to persuade the jury of the prosecution's dishonesty. Had the jury returned any verdict other than full acquittal, then the inclusion of the firearm charge despite the prosecution obviously knowing that it was legal for Rittenhouse to possess (given their complete lack of pushback against the motion) could have been used as evidence of malicious prosecution/prosecutorial misconduct. It is the responsibility of the prosecution to prove their case. The defendant has a presumption of innocence, and the prosecutor's job is to seek justice under the law, not prosecution. They don't get to throw the whole law book at him and then dance around to see what they can make stick after the fact, and people ostensibly on the "left" used to understand this.

You seem to be another person, who is trying to pluck Rittenhouse from the environment and culture he was actually in on that night, and transport him to another part of the world with different laws and culture. And then make a moral / legal judgement based on that.

But that's not how it works.

A lot of posts like yours (just like the biased media reporting), are trying to paint a narrative that Kyle was the only guy running around with a gun. That is complete BS.

Guns were EVERYWHERE that night. The police had them, the national guard had them, the mob that was burning the city down had them. And many of the people chasing Rittenhouse had them. People were firing off shots into the air, as Rittenhouse was running away. He had a gun aimed at his head by Grossgreutz, a man with a criminal record and no legal right to have said gun!

Don't forget that part btw, Rittenhouse was RUNNING AWAY. He wasn't running towards people trying to engage them in a gun battle.

As regards standing your ground. There is nothing implicit in that regard, which indicates that you want to kill anyone. Nobody got killed because this kid was "standing his ground" outside a business premises. They got killed because they chased him and tried beat the sh!t out of him.

And he didn't just get a "dig to the head" either. He was being mobbed by a very angry and dangerous group of people (we've seen some of their criminal rap sheets). He was punched to the ground, kicked in the head, whacked over the head with a skateboard. And based on riots in other areas of the country, we can see that people were getting beaten unconscious and left in a heap on the ground.

It's actually impressive that he was still fully conscious after being kicked in the head, and hit over the head with a very solid piece of wood. To then expect that he should just "take a beating" like the prosecutors suggested, is bullsh!t. Many people have died from taking such a heavy beating. Many people have died even from just one punch, and whacking their head off the pavement.

It's not our culture. Based on where he lives, and their laws, he defended himself against a serious threat to his well being and possibly his life. And considering he was completely outnumbered, he did a very impressive job of getting himself out of that situation.

Gaige Grosskreutz was the dude who was shot in the arm. He admitted that he chased Rittenhouse down the street while pulling his pistol, and that Rittenhouse had opportunity to shoot him but didn't do so until he started moving forward, brought his gun arm around and aimed at Rittenhouse.

It took the defense a long time to drag that out of him and he blatantly lied before being forced to correct himself when shown video evidence on more than one occasion - even by the prosecution who called him. I think that was probably something to do with the $10m civil suit he had pending against the state requiring him to have been squeaky clean at the time of his injury.

Because fear-and-clicks driven corporate media companies in America have driven a minority of the population to a place where they are pathologically incapable of having or applying principles outside of a very simplistic and damaging "them bad, us good" narrative.

Any why did Gaige Grosskreutz bring a gun with him to the protest?

Actually, I think it's a little different this time. I've seen a lot of people watch what's happened through the trial and suddenly realise that they have been incessantly lied to for over a year, lead to believe that a white supremacist thug took to a peaceful BLM protest and gunned down three black people for **** and giggles, and for many of them the scales have fallen from their eyes.

There will be some people who will maintain those beliefs, either because they genuinely can't handle the pain of the cognitive dissonance they experience when confronted with the truth, so they turn away, or because they are politically married to their own special version of events.

Even CNN, presumably because they're **** themselves over possible defamation suits, reported the actual facts of the case today.

Imagine what that must do to someone. For a year you've watched as the people you trust for information every day tell you that a white supremacist went to hunt black people, reaching a fever pitch over the last couple of weeks where you have been told that the judge is a crooked racist and over and over again you've seen "legal experts" and "justice activists" invited on to be interviewed to reinforce this message for you. White supremacist. Racist. Gunned down innocent black people. Crossed state lines (!) with an illegal AR15. And on and on and on it goes. This is the narrative you are being spoonfed, bit by bit.

You might even be aware of people being banned from social media for saying that he was innocent. You might have been reassured, by GoFundMe taking down the fundraiser for Rittenhouse's defence (while leaving similar funds for violent looters and rioters in place) that the narrative had to be true. These are the little dabs of a napkin against the sides of your overflowing mouth as you feast, day after day, week after week, on lies.

And then comes the verdict.

Not guilty.

And to boot, the people who have been feeding you this banquet of bullshit and emotional junk food are now explaining very concisely and clearly what actually happened. He didn't cross state lines with a weapon. He was in Kenosha because his father and many family members live there. He was working there the prior day and had stayed overnight. He was helping clean up graffiti. He was asked to go and help out that night. His was legally allowed to possess the gun. He was attacked before he shot, every time. One of those shot admitted to levelling a gun at his head. The others were seen attacking him on camera. All of those shot were white. It was clear self defence. There was never any white supremacy angle.

And then, if you have a morsel of self-reflection in you, you have to be thinking; what the hell else have I been lied to about?

And suddenly you are no longer such an easy dupe.

Delighted with the verdict! Kyle Rittenhouse: a legend in his own lifetime. Hope he gets paid millions in some defamation lawsuits too. He should go after that decrepit old moron in the white house for some of the things he said, let alone the media.

They honestly think that the court of social media opinion should be above the law. If they all had their way everyone who committed a crime in the eyes of the mob would be thrown straight into prison, no trial needed. Modern "social justice" doesn't really have much justice.

People like me? You know nothing about me, yet you label me disgusting? Calm down.