U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Just seconds after a Kenosha jury of five men and seven women found that Kyle Rittenhouse used his AR as it was intended, for self-defense, the anti-gun zealots went bonkers – crying, wailing and gnashing their teeth – nearly apoplectic with rage and disbelief.
When the other side is screaming, babbling incoherently and imploding on the national stage, it’s best to just leave them alone. Pop some corn, sit back and enjoy the show. Sun Tzu said that, probably.
No one in the entire country went more dinky-dau than Congressman Jerry Nadler, who represents Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Nadler wants to further weaponize and politicize the Justice Department by forcing them to investigate Rittenhouse for civil rights violations. There is, however, a major problem with Jer’s lawyering: Kyle didn’t violate anyone’s civil rights. Three convicted felons did, which is why they got shot. Besides, the FBI is far too busy wiretapping parents who disagree with their local school boards to get involved in a state case that’s already concluded, especially one without a clear federal predicate. The gavel has come down, Jerry. Time to move on.
Those of you familiar with the subtle musings of MSLSD’s Joy Reid will not be disappointed either. Reid wrote on her blog that the Rittenhouse Trial “was designed to protect white conservatives who kill.”
“Law enforcement – including a department known to cover up its own lawless acts of violence – seemed to give cover to Rittenhouse from the get-go,” Reid wrote.
Cover? They charged him with multiple felonies including several counts of murder – to give him cover? Okay, Joy, now I see why you’re paid $1.5 million and Maddow makes $35 million.
Cliff Schecter, whose day job is running a public relations and political strategy firm, wrote for the Daily Beast that Rittenhouse “just killed our right to peacefully protest.” How Schecter arrived at this political strategy I do not know.
“We’ve now lost our guaranteed First Amendment right to peacefully assemble to a half-cocked, cocaine-cowboy version of the Second Amendment,” Schecter wrote. “Mix that together with a witch’s brew of right-wing propaganda and white power, and the result is that any time you march for your rights you have to accept that any dime store Kyle Rittenhouse can point a weapon of war at you and pull the trigger.”
To be clear, Kyle Rittenhouse pointed his weapon at no one until they pointed a weapon at him. There is no evidence whatsoever that future protests will be impacted by the jury’s verdict unless of course, the peaceful protesters try to murder someone else.
On Sunday, CBS News’ senior national correspondent Mark Strassmann repeated the debunked lie that Rittenhouse “drove in from Illinois armed for battle.” The truth is, and it was confirmed during the trial, which somehow Strassman must have missed, that Rittenhouse’s AR was already in Kenosha. Any senior national correspondent should have known this. CBS declined to comment about or fix the error, which comes as no surprise, especially for this trial, especially for CBS.
There are dozens if not hundreds of other examples: NPR painted anyone who supported the verdict as a right-wing extremist, and CNN is still trying to come to grips with the 15 months’ worth of fiction they disguised as news before they’re hit by defamation lawsuits, but the most extreme silliness is coming from the usual we-need-another-law crowd.
To be clear, Kyle Rittenhouse exercised his right of self-defense. I believe self-defense is a God-given right, but feel free to insert the name of whatever deity you bend a knee to on Saturday or Sunday. (Atheists I know refer to self-defense as a natural or inherent right). The point is this, a divine right cannot be revoked by any new legislation, and it’s certainly immune from one of Joe Biden’s executive orders. Governments and authoritarian presidents come and go, but our right to defend ourselves and our loved ones remain, as long as we safeguard it more zealously than those who want to take it away.
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About Lee Williams
Lee Williams, who is also known as “The Gun Writer,” is the chief editor of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. Until recently, he was also an editor for a daily newspaper in Florida. Before becoming an editor, Lee was an investigative reporter at newspapers in three states and a U.S. Territory. Before becoming a journalist, he worked as a police officer. Before becoming a cop, Lee served in the Army. He’s earned more than a dozen national journalism awards as a reporter, and three medals of valor as a cop. Lee is an avid tactical shooter.
Joy Reid, a racist indeed!
The looney left reminds me of a bunch of spoiled rich kids who don’t get their way…go cry somewhere else
The “news” media is going nuts because they have been caught red handed in their lies about this case in particular. If there is something good that comes out of this it’s that people are seeing for themselves just how biased, untruthful and propaganda spewing the “news” media is. Evil is still evil. When the “trusted news media” or government lies to us, it’s not for our good, it is an attempt to enslave us. This is a basic ideal of communism. They can’t have a teenager go across state lines with a weapon that holds too many bullets, put… Read more »
The loco left was loco before the Rittenhouse verdict. Crazy is as crazy does and they can’t be fixed by normal means . The ballot box has failed and the only cure for these unhinged nuts is the cartridge box . Kyle proved this to be a permanent cure for these violent idiots !
Conservative: ‘Peacefully protest’ = nonviolent.
Leftist: ‘Peacefully protest’ = riots, arson, assault, murder, looting, etc.
Cliff Schecter: “Rittenhouse just killed our right to peacefully protest.”
Translation: We are now too afraid to assault, riot, commit arson, loot, and murder.
I don’t have to be as zealous as the antis, I just have to stand my ground. It takes a true fanatic to try to “come and take it” – only takes a good shot to to stop them.
Career criminals in Congress, State Government, Local City Government, along with the hypocrisy of the Fake NEWS channels supporting their narrative have endangered the American public. Anti-constitutionalist’s sense of morality is situational, based on incident and emotion, instead of rooted in God’s word and law. Anti-constitutionalist’s stand for nothing. The situation determines their support for an issue and their emotions rule, not reason and rationality. Moreover, they recognize the contradiction, but still cling to their situational justice. Situational justice is the tool of dictators, tyrants, despots, and unjust, unrighteous monarchs. It has no place in a Free Constitutional Republic. In… Read more »
.Kyle should be an example to all young men as to what it means to be MAN. The loony left and liberals call Kyle a killer, but what he is is a WARRIOR, doing what most so-called men in America are too “feminized” and weak to even consider. God Bless him and the example he has given us to follow.
This whole military weapons argument is ridiculous made by ppl who do zero research. The lever action was invented as a military weapon. Then when they realized how difficult it was to work the lever in a prone position in combat, they invented the bolt action rifle. Both weapons today are used in hunting and in the case of the bolt action, still see military action.
Well – everything that has been happening in this country is designed to enable, encourage, and legalize all the criminal violence committed by the MOBS-OF-THE-REVOLUTION that are the foot soldiers of the New Marxist Democrat Party. At the same time, everything is being done to OUTLAW ARMED SELF DEFENSE against the MOBS-OF-THE-REVOLUTION! For all the violence and burning cities with no charges filed – McCloskeys charged with felonies There was an armed journalist in Seattle or Portland who was charged when using a handgun to defend himself against “THE MOB”. And of course, how much time did NOT GUILTY Kyle… Read more »