There is zero pro-life message in the Rittenhouse murder verdict

Pro-life gun control zealots are rabid about being pro-second amendment.  This wrong-minded logic is the highest level of hypocrisy.

Pro-life hypocrites are also likely to support the death penalty!

Maine Writer - In my opinion, if Kyle Rittenhouse had been a man of color, he would not have lived long enough to have a trial in Kenosha, WI,  because the police would have seen him as a perpetrator and considered him a threat to the public safety.  Just my opinion. In other words, American justice was not blind in the Rittenhosue jury trial.  Instead, the jury was "blindsided" by a biased judge who was apparently influenced by Second Amendment rights being somehow at risk if the defendant Rittenhouse were convicted. 

Editorial board echo published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in Missouri:  The American justice system has performed its job in the murder trial of teenager Kyle Rittenhouse, but in no way can this verdict be deemed to have served the cause of justice. 

Rittenhouse was the beneficiary of a Kenosha, Wisconsin, judge who did everything in his power to ensure Rittenhouse walked free despite clear evidence that the teen had inserted himself into a dangerous situation, goaded confrontation with Black Lives Matter protesters and recklessly endangered others with an assault rifle the boy never should have had.

To the jury’s credit, it deliberated for three days before issuing not-guilty verdicts on all five felony counts. 

The length of their deliberations suggested jury members at least weighed the considerable evidence pointing to Rittenhouse’s guilt in the assault-rifle killings of two men and severe wounding of a third. The video evidence was incontrovertible that Rittenhouse recklessly inserted himself into a violent protest situation while brandishing a fully loaded AR-15 rifle.

A member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority.

The vigilante community across America must be jubilant with the knowledge that it’s possible to go out hunting for violent protesters, provoking confrontation, and then successfully claiming self-defense to avoid prison time for murder.

The weapons possession part of this case alone should have yielded a quick-and-easy guilty verdict since Rittenhouse was 17 at the time and not permitted under Wisconsin law to possess a gun. Rittenhouse violated a curfew in order to join other vigilantes as rioters attacked and burned businesses in Kenosha. But Judge Bruce Schroeder dismissed a misdemeanor weapons possession charge before the jury could hear it. He also dismissed a non-criminal count for violating the curfew.

Schroeder hamstrung the prosecution at every turn. He banned use of the word “victims” to describe the people Rittenhouse shot but allowed defense lawyers to refer to them as rioters and arsonists. Bad guys who deserved what they got, in other words. At one point during the trial, Schroeder’s cellphone rang. His audible ringtone was a portion of “God Bless the U.S.A.,” whose command to “stand up!” has gained particular popularity among conservatives in response to Black athletes kneeling in protest of racism.

Schroeder also blocked the prosecution from showing photos of an unrepentant Rittenhouse celebrating and posing in a bar after the killings with members of the Proud Boys, a group linked to white supremacy.

Even if the jury believed Rittenhouse shot in self-defense, it’s unfathomable how jurors could conclude he had not recklessly endangered others, the topic of two counts against him. There was ample video available with Rittenhouse stating openly that he thought his “job” was to run toward danger. 

No, his job as a 17-year-old was to obey the curfew, stay at home, and leave his assault rifle locked up and unloaded until he was old enough to carry it responsibly.

Teenage vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse quite literally has gotten away with murder.

Maine Writer post script: In my mind, the Rittenhouse jury's verdict just proves that right wing zealots who claim to be pro-life, really love their guns more than they value any kind of life. 

Here is a prime example at this link here. 

"‘Pro-Life’ Texas Representative Threatens Beto O’Rourke With an AR-15", published in The Cut, by Bridget Read.  "Briscoe Cain has been reported to the FBI for his violent speech, which you might think would fly in the face of the 'sanctity of life' –type rhetoric..."