Kyle Rittenhouse should not have been in Kenosha that night. He is no hero. That doesn’t make him a murderer, but it does mean that he bears some of the responsibility for what happened. Moral culpability for the deaths of the two people he killed and the one he shot and wounded doesn’t end with Rittenhouse, either. The rioters chose to create a dangerous, lawless situation. The city and, in particular, Wisconsin governor Tony Evers chose not to enforce the law or use the National Guard to restore order. The adults in Rittenhouse’s life failed to stop him from inserting himself into the chaos. And the three people who attacked him made a foolhardy decision of their own to commit criminal violence against a man visibly armed with a powerful rifle. How did they think that was going to end?
The Rioters and Their Enablers
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