Springfield, VA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Gun Owners of America (GOA) Senior Vice President Erich Pratt released the following statement on Kyle Rittenhouse’s citizen-involved shooting:
“Based upon publicly available video evidence, it appears that Kyle Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense. And despite fake news media reports, it is clear that Kyle was not firing indiscriminately into a crowd.
“GOA has reached out to Rittenhouse’s attorneys and the Lake County Public Defender’s office, and we have our own attorneys and use of force experts looking into this case, as well. In the meantime, we demand fair treatment from the media, because up till now, their coverage has been horrific. With no evidence, they have labeled Kyle as a racist and a vigilante, but that just indicates how the media elites view all gun owners.
“More to the point, the media has given more favorable coverage to rioters and looters over the past several months than to gun owners who appear to be protecting their lives from violent attackers. The media excuses the violent torching of American cities as ‘mostly peaceful’ protests. And they now minimize the hatefulness of Kyle’s attackers, calling them mere ‘protestors.’
“But if Leftists want to question why Kyle Rittenhouse was in Kenosha, then they should begin by asking that question to the ‘protestors’ who have criminal records and who have come from out of town to terrorize business owners.
“The bottom line is this: every human being has a God-given right to protect themselves. And when a person’s life is under attack, the Constitution protects their ability to use firearms without ‘infringement’ in the defense of that life.”
Erich Pratt, or another GOA spokesperson, is available for interviews. Gun Owners of America is a nonprofit grassroots lobbying organization dedicated to protecting the right to keep and bear arms without compromise. GOA represents over two million members and activists. For more information, visit GOA’s Press Center.
And the dead guys girlfriend cries for the media about her dead boyfriend… Well GEE, IF he wasn’t out rioting and didn’t attack an armed person he would still be with her. Antifa mentality on display. Cause havoc and destruction, then blame others for protecting themselves or their property from you… The BLM and Antifa mobsters do the poor poor pitiful me act EVERY time THEY get nailed.
They are holding a match dangerously close to a PATRIOT fuse they do NOT want to light…
Seems to me the rioters got what they asked for.
The comments I’ve read here from the Leftist point of view are incredulous! Plain , simple, fctual video evidence is simply beyond their comprehension, diverting to things like his residence, age, gun choice,Etc. They have an acute ability to ignore reality and they will NEVER change their demented mindset. I was not a resident of Vietnam and had a gun given to me at age 17 and was told to go kill as many of the residents of that Communist persuasion as I could. Oh, yeah, they were also trying to kill me . Sounds mighty like what’s going on… Read more »
It is criminal to arrest someone defending there community and yet they let the trash burn the city. There will come a time they won’t be able to arrest the defender as the crowd will turn on those doing the arresting and the justice system that supports the rioters who have killed and injured many.
Media is now fanning the cancel culture flames. Once again attacking Tucker Carlson, this time for having the audacity to suggest that SOME of the shots MIGHT have been self defense. They are calling for boycott of any company advertising on the show. Thinking I’ve got to make a list of advertisers, shop from them, and let them know I’m doing so in gratitude for their support of the first amendment. Those of us who’ve watched the video with an open mind, generally think it was self defense. I haven’t seen enough of the first shot, but the rest was… Read more »
With all the attention this story is getting on the world wide media and the liberal press this young man will have a hard time getting a fair trial.
Kyle Rittenhouse is an American Hero. FREE HIM NOW!!!
This is going to go back and forth, between “protesters” and “defenders”, until “government” does it job and takes control of these situations at the outset. Whoever is guilty in this individual instance can be debated – what can’t be debated is the fact that these situations evolve when government treats lawless anarchy as lawful protest (or, as Seattle’s mayor called it, a “summer of love”).
Rittenhouse did not own the gun, his lawyer said Friday.
“Kyle did not carry a gun across state line,” L. Lin Wood said in a tweet Friday morning. “The gun belonged to his friend, a Wisconsin resident. The gun never left the state of Wisconsin.”
Source: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2020/08/26/wisconsin-open-carry-law-kyle-rittenhouse-legally-have-gun-kenosha-protest-shooting-17-year-old/3444231001/
While I have very strong hopes that Mr. Rittenhouse is innocent and was, in fact, acting in self defense, I do not feel that anyone yet, not directly involved in the case, can know the truth about what happened. I certainly do not expect to learn anything accurate from the MSM, which already has convicted Mr. Rittenhouse.