There was a pretty good rebuttal just a few entries down from the end of the letter to the editor:
“To the editor: When it comes to chaos and anarchy, you can’t make value judgments about the different flavors. If you accept one flavor, you’re tacitly accepting all of it.
Progressive leaders and pundits who implicitly condoned wanton street violence in the name of social justice in 2020 now express outrage when the chaos pushes back.
Is it so surprising when the government fails to maintain social order that at least some private citizens will take up the mantle? This is the basic definition of anarchy: Figure it out for yourselves.
Chaos is omni-directional. It doesn’t care about your ideological or partisan priors. Embrace it all or reject it all.
Chris Romberg, El Dorado Hills, Calif.”
Just exactly why was Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, WI that night in July 2020? And exactly what and who made him feel the need to bear arms to defend himself? The protesters had not exactly shown any reluctance (either there or previously) to destroy property or attack anyone they didn’t like. So arming himself was a reasonable precaution. The rest …
that was a great rebuttal with far reaching implications