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Reynolds: A Shooting Becomes Hate Crime When It Further’s the Approved Narrative

When is a racial hate crime not a racial hate crime? When it doesn’t advance the left’s, and the Democrats’, narrative. When white teenager Kyle Rittenhouse shot three white men who were violently assaulting him, it somehow…

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The Real Reason Kyle Rittenhouse Shot Three People in Kenosha, Wisconsin (It Wasn’t Racism)

The Rittenhouse shootings took place on the third day of rioting in Kenosha. Authorities, including the Governor, had little or no interest in intervening. Police and National Guardsmen had been pulled back while rioters burned,…



Serwer: White Fragility Determines Which Uses of Self-Defense are Legitimate

[W]hich acts of violence are considered legitimate self-defense has always been highly political. For most of American history, white men alone had a right of self-defense that included both their persons and property. Although the…


NYT: Rittenhouse Verdict Shows America Has Too Many Guns for Our Current Laws to Handle

The acquittal points to the wide berth the legal system gives to defendants who say they acted out of fear, even if others around them were also afraid. Wisconsin’s rules for self-defense are well within…



Prosecutor: Kyle Rittenhouse Lost His Right to Self Defense When He Brought a Gun to a Riot

By Scott Bauer, Michael Tarm and Amy Forliti, AP Kyle Rittenhouse provoked the bloodshed on the streets of Kenosha by bringing a semi-automatic rifle and menacing others, and when the shooting stopped, he walked away…