Looks as though times have changed. Of what are we to think of young (17) Kyle Rittenhouse, journeying to Kenosha, Wisconsin to, yes, help protect store owners and their property, ultimately killing two men and wounding a third?
At worst, we're accustomed to teen shooters ambushing and mowing school children down by the dozens. At best, teenagers volunteer with charitable organizations and, if so driven, obtain gun safety education by way of the National Rifle Association. (Yes, the NRA, which we are sure the left will properly deal with just as soon as they finished destroying the Boy Scouts.)
New kind of teen in town? A militia-scented sort of teen, harboring a social obligation -- but thankfully, not a social justice obligation -- to do something for God or country or for some long forgotten creed?
A teenager whose utmost, life-long respect for police authority directed him to Kenosha to help out, to keep stores un-torched and business owners' lives unscathed? If nature abhors a vacuum, do patriotic intentions fostered by the good who, we are reminded through allegory, generally die young, fill the darkened void caused by violent street demonstrations?
In an earlier era, teenagers had to, by necessity, do the work of adults, routinely protecting family, crops and livelihood with guns. Because much of today's lot can usually be found whiling away senseless hours playing video games or otherwise doing nothing constructive, the emergence of a Kyle Rittenhouse is both interesting and amazing, love him or hate him.
But too perfect was this, the whole concept. The lowest of the low stalking the streets of Kenosha couldn't tolerate the image and, thanks to the idiocy of evil-minded thugs chasing down a young man equipped with a serious-business firearm, people are dead and injured.
Videos absolutely scream self-defense, but investigations will continue until a proper conclusion is reached. Politically attired, maybe.
To be blunt, it appears Rittenhouse managed to "bag" certain individuals who already wore some criminal activity around their necks. Whether this was the case, young Kyle seemed to have no other option but to defend his life when challenged. Should he have been there in the first place? Perhaps not -- but neither should the vile street trash, many of whom were also outsiders.
Think of it: A perceptive teenager who wants to help law enforcers because elected officials put constraints on officers who can barely do their jobs now. Suddenly put in fear for his life, attacked by street morons, Kyle's evaluation of the situation clearly entitled him to a self-defensive mode.
Even if Rittenhouse gets through this with no criminal charges, the inevitable civil lawsuit seeking millions on the part of despicable street trash families will likely take a toll on the best of intentions.
Hard to believe: A teen who wasn't on the streets to argue race relations, didn't apologize for being white, didn't take a knee, wasn't wearing a BLM shirt and didn't march with ignorant or agenda-saturated pod-people to demonstrate hatred of America. Wow.
Under different circumstances, Rittenhouse and militia folk like him would raise an eyebrow or two, but if proper police funding goes away and this is our only alternative to saving culture and community, just wait and see what happens.
Jacob Blake redux: I hold my opinion. After watching video after video of police encounters with black folk who screw with the cops in some way, it's little wonder there's a hair-trigger response in some cases. To get to a very bleak point -- if you don't want to be shot one, four, seven or 500 times by the police and if you don't want to become paralyzed or dead, the solution is ever so simple: Follow lawful police commands and stop screwing with "blue lives" dedicated to saving yours, even if you're a pathetic douche bag of color or of no color who deserves exactly what you get.
Things to worry about: When does social distancing become socialism distancing?
Public schools: Deplorable as operated by teachers' unions fueled by Marxist values, with no regard for input from individual teachers who aren't taken with socialism.
Voting: Google, YouTube, Twitter and sources unknown are the tech giants who reportedly have the power and the will to screw with the elections this year -- more so than Russia or the other usual foreign suspects. As various conservatives remind us, after the last election Google officials said, in so many words, that they couldn't allow something like Trump's election victory to happen again. This attitude, coupled with the concept of distributing mail-in ballots like chicken feed in a barn yard without proper accounting practices, breeds potential trouble for a fair election system.
