Why Does the Gun Control Industry Continue to Defame Kyle Rittenhouse?

The prominent members of the Gun Control Industry paused this past weekend to observe the anniversary of the Kyle Rittenhouse self-defense shootings during rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin. While it may be surprising that they continue to lie about the facts and defame Rittenhouse three years later, keep in mind that these are anti-gun organizations, people who have never let facts get in the way of furthering their civilian disarmament agenda.

Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety claims that Rittenhouse wasn’t “held accountable” for killing Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber before wounding Gaige Grosskreutz. That’s seems strange, because not only was he arrested, charged with multiple felony counts — including first degree homicide — and tried by a jury of his peers, but he was ultimately acquitted on all charges. If that’s not being “held accountable” for his actions, what is?

And then there’s the Brady version of what happened. They chose to mark the anniversary as so many have in the last three years…by painting Rittenhouse as a racist (a “white-supremacist” in their telling). Not only is there no evidence whatsoever that Rittenhouse is or ever has been a “white-supremacist,” but all three individuals he shot that night after being attacked (after first trying to flee) were white.

So these billionaire-backed operations are still openly lying about what happened in Kenosha. They’re also openly defaming Rittenhouse. For no apparent reason. Well, aside from the fact that the entire l’affair Rittenhouse was horribly inconvenient for them and a direct threat to their civilian disarmament narrative.

Think about it. He was legally carrying an AR-15 rifle that night. He was attacked by multiple individuals. He made every attempt to retreat…to avoid having to defend himself with his gun. But in the first instance he was cornered and in the second, he was set upon by one rioter who hit him in the head with a skateboard and another with a gun. Rittenhouse didn’t fire one unnecessary round while defending himself and he injured no one other than his attackers.

It was, in the end, a textbook case of armed self-defense. That’s obviously how the jury saw it as well.

And that’s why the gun control orgs can never let him go. They have to continue to lie about what he did, how he did it, and even what they think his motivations were. As prominent as the entire Rittenhouse shooting and trial were, none of it went their way. They have to do everything they can to ensure he doesn’t become an example for other individuals who might decide that armed self-defense makes sense, especially in a world with “progressive” prosecutors, zero bail laws, and a multi-tiered system of justice.

So he’ll probably continue to see these kinds of attacks launched at him every August from now unto eternity. I’ve met Rittenhouse a couple of times now and he seems to be dealing with that reality remarkably well. But that fact doesn’t make what the likes of Everytown and Brady are doing to him any less despicable or dishonest.