There are a lot of issues surrounding this jury verdict. I find the jury incompetent in its inability to discern the reason two dead man and the one maimed were assaulting Rittenhouse. The jury verdict was also contaminated by a judge that "set up" the prosecutor to fail. Because the prosecutor could not assert Freedom of Speech in accurating describing the victims of Rittenhouse's vigilantism, the jury was making assumptions they never should have regarding the victims to this crime.
I believe the Rittenhouse decision is the opening salvo of a civil war. All that is needed now are two sides at a demonstation brandishing weapons and democracy will be dead, too.
Rittenhouse was possible because of the false belief the USA government will come to arm it's military to destroy democracy. That would not be the case in any way. The "call to arms" so to speak is a false premise and needs to be seriously addressed in it's content and it's extremist views and agenda.
The gun lobby took a simple concept that is anti-government and turned it into political dogma within elections of people sympathetic to the capitalism of gun sales. The reason the gun lobby conducted itself in that manner is for profits and not any other reason. The gun lobby is not the friend of the people.
Capitalism is an enemy to the people in the allowance of extremism within it's politics. In the content to which the USA elections are corrupted by extremism, including, allowing an enemy foreign power to carry out pressure on the electorate is another example of how capitalism is running amuck in our society that results in two dead men and another maimed for life.
I think it is time to reread the book by Ron Suskind, "The Way of the World." I am confident the dynamics of Rittenhouse can be found in this book written in 2008.
The gun lobby played a huge roll in the exoneration of Zimmerman and now Rittenhouse. They invested millions in these trials. Money is the root of all evil and I believe it more today than ever before.
Where is the morality? Where are ethics? Where are all the invisbile qualities of the USA that actually improve the quality of life for the American people. Those invisible agents in our society are desperately missing and LEANS into extremism is becoming the norm.
