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Posted on 11/16/2021 7:50:38 AM PST by Heartlander
“You don’t need an AR-15,” U.S. News and World Report told readers just three and a half years ago. ThinkProgress in 2018 published a piece called, “The myth that civilian gun ownership prevents tyranny.” When Ben Shapiro justified private ownership of guns to counter potential tyranny in the United States, CNN’s Piers Morgan guffawed contemptuously. “Do you understand how absurd you sound?” Morgan asked Shapiro in 2013. Until recently, people laughed at the idea that an AR-15 could be used for legitimate self-defense purposes.
Nobody is laughing anymore, not even the gun control people.
Now we have videos of Kyle Rittenhouse with an AR-15 slung around his shoulder as he waded into a riot-plagued community to hand out bandages and protect property. In the summer of 2020, the mobs ruled and nobody dared oppose them. They toppled beautiful works of statutory art. They burned businesses and even a police station. They seized real governmental control over several city blocks in one of the country’s most important cities. Revolutionaries established other “autonomous zones,” in Washington, D.C., Portland Oregon, and Asheville, North Carolina. Nobody dared enforce rules regarding private property, social distancing, curfews, or even murder.
A year later, the rule of law has finally begun to reassert itself. When the Rittenhouse trial judge dismissed the gun charge, it may have spelled doom for the prosecution’s theory of the case. The charge was key to muddying the self-defense theory, and recasting Kyle to look like an aggressor for the mere fact that he possessed the firearm. Like his leftist overlords, the prosecutor has pushed the “he-shouldn’t-have-been-there-with-a-gun” narrative as justification for convicting Rittenhouse. On that night, the streets belonged to the righteous mob. Anyone who opposed anything the mob did was, by then-candidate Biden’s definition, a white supremacist.
The mob in Kenosha sent a fearful message: You better not anger the mob. Because if the mob can burn down Kenosha, no suburb is safe. Making Americans feel unsafe in the face of unrestrained political violence was what the summer of 2020 was all about. As one author wrote of the violence and looting in the summer of 2020, “it seems to have gotten white people’s attention as the uprisings reach their neighborhoods. I hope every white person knows that whatever injustice or fear they might feel is only a shadow of what Black people have carried with them their entire lives. It’s why we march. It’s why we protest. It’s the message we’ve been trying to convey.”
For months now, the media has been reprising its disgraceful smears against the Covington High School students by heaping lie after lie on the frenzy of lies about Rittenhouse. The media needed only to know the race of the Kenosha shooter and the politics of the victims. That was enough to invent the rest of the story to fit the narrative.
But one thing the media can’t hide are the basic facts. No longer can Americans be told that the AR-15 is not a legitimate tool for self-defense. The mob physically attacked Rittenhouse three times—each of which attacks easily could have led to Rittenhouse’s death. Had Rittenhouse not had the AR-15 to defend himself, he might not be alive today. Everyone who watched the trial saw it.
The Left doesn’t want to punish Rittenhouse for murder. It wants to prevent others from standing up to future mobs to protect themselves. The Left rules with fear and the threat of mob action is its most potent weapon. If Americans know they can legally protect themselves from the mob, the mob will lose its power. That’s why Rittenhouse’s example is so powerful and why the Left is so angry at him. History warns that whether the costume is bolshevik red or fascist black, the mob is the vanguard of tyranny. Denying the threat of the mob cannot be separated from the prevention of tyranny.
Americans have been secretly filling up their closets with firearms for the last several years. By one estimate, there are approximately 17 million AR-15s and similar rifles in private hands. When faced with a violent mob, a pistol with 10 rounds really isn’t enough to stay safe. The Rittenhouse case is a clinic in exactly why Americans have a right to an AR-15.
As the jury retires to deliberate, we can’t really know for sure what the final outcome will be until the verdict is announced. But, thanks again to the Constitution, Rittenhouse received a public trial and anything short of an acquittal will revive jury intimidation allegations. Americans saw that the media lied to them about the facts of the case. While that suits many, even a few leftists expressed shock and surprise at the level of deception.
Police and 500 National Guard troops have begun positioning to quell the violence expected following the Rittenhouse verdict. It’s one indication that the authorities expect a not-guilty verdict. But there’s another reason to think there may not be another riot in Kenosha if Rittenhouse is vindicated: Rittenhouse will be free to return to his community to protect it. And so will countless more inspired by his example to hold the line against the Left’s political violence.
Has not changed anything YET
They will convict because they jury fears BLM and it’s financers.
I hope I am wrong.
Don't you get tired of this banal expression?
“The Left doesn’t want to punish Rittenhouse for murder. It wants to prevent others from standing up to future mobs to protect themselves.”
Yep. Ask that couple in St. Louis for confirmation.
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The prosecutor did not charge a known felon for illegal possession of a firearm, but charged Rittenhouse because he shot the known and armed felon.
You could have a point there.
Will see if there are still brave people who wont bow to outside intimidation.
“Because if the mob can burn down Kenosha, no suburb is safe.”
I do not agree with this. The Mob operates only where they have the cooperation of local government. We had an incident last spring in Elizabeth City, NC which arguably made the Mob’s case better than Kenosha did, but there was no rioting. There were protests, but the local government, including the black female democrat mayor, made it clear that they were not putting up with destruction. The protests were peaceful and professional rioters did not show up. The destruction of 2020 was brought on by the people who suffered it, and they are the ones who have to fix it.
Saw this livestream of attorneys watching and commenting on the trial recommended on CTH.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whA5p5qmJrc
As one of the female anchors at FOX news said, where were these 500 National Guard troops on the nights of the riots?
500 Guard troops on the streets of Kenosha with orders to maintain order would have prevented the events that led to this trial.
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If there are riots when Rittenhouse is found not guilty, then the police, NG, and militia should use deadly force against any rioters or groups of rioters from which arson, violent attacks against innocent people, and looting are observed.
“They toppled beautiful works of statutory art.”
I think the author means “statuary art”. But hey, the words sound somewhat similar, so it’s close enough.
You can open carry there can’t you? Why are not hundreds if not thousands of Citizens there out in the open and carry ready to prevent any riot that may ensue? WTH is wrong with Americans!
If found not-guilty it will help make the case that not only is an AR-15 useful, but also a mag that can handle 30 rounds, not just 10.
Every day an OJ juror looks back knowing they did wrong.
No sympathetic pat, no “you made the right choice” will ever change their error.
They have to live with the fact they let a slasher/murderer go free because OJ had a high melanin content and killed a couple of low melanin content people.
It’s that simple.
There is no honor in that. Never will be. Ever.
I hope this jury can see this self defense for what it is and rule accordingly.
“I hope every white person knows that whatever injustice or fear they might feel is only a shadow of what Black people have carried with them their entire lives.”
Look no further than black culture, which unfortunately includes fatherless children, black on black crime, etc.
The police emboldened the mob by acquiescing to arson, violence and rioting. If the cops feared the mob, why wouldn’t a kid with a gun? The scenario was topsy turvy and precipitated fatal errors in judgment. But the outcome was foreseeable and law enforcement failed to recognize that fact. Their failure cost lives.
Answer: "Yes, I do, to any dumbass lucky enough never to have been standing against an angry, violent mob, with no police anywhere around.
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