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.
“Every day an OJ juror looks back knowing they did wrong.”
Which one?
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Correction: video link is to Odysee, not Gab.
If the National Guard had been called in during the riots, Rittenhouse never would have had to try to protect the community that was under siege.
“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.”
What is going to be the most ironic thing of all is that if Rittenhouse is (properly, IMHO) acquitted, that Kenosha (and other cities and towns) will likely burn and there will be a great deal of mob violence...proving the point that we NEED to have an effective semi-auto rifle for self-defense.
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sO i NO LONGER need an AR15 in 5.56 since I own a 300AAC Blackout? Hard to keep up!
The US military, National Guard, Police number about 2,500,000 men.
VS.
20,000,000 civilian semi-auto rifle owners, and maybe 75 million other firearm owners, and over 400,000,000 firearms out there. 250,000,000 high cap magazines in private hands.
And the government thinks they can “regulate” that?
I was going to complain but the brickbats against grammar nazis can be so discouraging...thank you for your service!
Shotgun skip shooting can be used rather than just offing the vermin. That way they are hospitalized AND prosecuted.
The more the merrier. 5.56, 6.8spc, 6.5 grendel, 7.62x39, .300BO, .458 socom, etc... Diversity is our strength.
the verdict will be in shortly after lunch... and what a lunch. they new they were ready when they entered the room, but wanted to get a good meal, probably from Red Lobster, with desserts and mocktails. look for a decision about 2 pm
let’s go brandon.
Aw shucks, tweren’t nothin’.
We know lunch isn't Chinese food, or the judge would have commented on it ... and the far left would have freaked out again.
The prosecution (the Kenosha DA’s office is Dem, BTW) is not making such a big deal of this case because of the deaths of three slimeballs (and, yes, what we know about them does allow such a label); rather, it is ALL about gun control and banning semi-auto “assault weapons.” That is why the prosecution always referred to the gun as an AR-15, when in fact it was a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 (small difference, in reality, but the term AR-15 gets the attention of the gun-banners).
“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.”
Hell, the prosecutor didn’t charge Ziminski (or however the hell his name is spelled) for firing his handgun, which was what started the whole damned scenario in motion. Nope, no charges for that; but, hey, charging him with petty arson is what the DA’s office did. Think Ziminski was “bought off” with that leniency? Enquiring minds want to know.
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.
The need argument is the flimsiest of all. If someone is going to start telling me - us - what we need and don't need, that works both ways. Does every two-bit pol need a multi-SUV motorcade? Does Pelosi need to fly home every weekend in a government provided 767? And so on...
It would give ANTIFA and BLM unlimited power to harass and beat whomever they please.
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