Who is responsible for the Kyle Rittenhouse shootings? Every single person who excused rioting    Kaylee McGhee White - 2h ago

 In the case against Kyle Rittenhouse, there is one guilty party that will never be prosecuted, never put on trial, never held accountable for their role in the shootings that could land Rittenhouse in jail. That party is every single person who spent the summer of 2020 excusing and even justifying the violent riots that led Rittenhouse to Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the first place.

What happened in Kenosha that summer was horrific lawlessness on display, and no one, not even the governor of Wisconsin, wanted to do anything about it, because to take a stand against the riots meant drawing the wrath of leftist activists who had convinced themselves that rioting, looting, arson, and other forms of violence were not just understandable but necessary.

This is not   an exaggeration. Article after article after article was published to convince the public that the violence they were seeing across the country was a normal expression of frustration to which minority communities had the right — never mind that many of the rioters were white people burning down black-owned businesses. And any time someone suggested that the lawlessness be forcibly put down, the Left and its allies in the media cried racism.

As a result, Democratic government leaders who were charged with protecting their communities and citizens abandoned this duty for fear that the political consequences would be worse if they took a stand against rioting than if they did nothing at all. Hence, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers refused to send additional law enforcement to Kenosha until it was too late.

The cost was utter chaos and death. Police officers were physically attacked, businesses were burned to the ground, and the mayor of Kenosha was forced to flee during the middle of a press conference by a crowd that smashed its way into the building. For many of the people who lived in Kenosha, there was no end in sight to this madness because no one seemed to have the guts to end it.

Enter Kyle Rittenhouse and the dozens of other citizens who felt they needed to take the defense of the city into their own hands.

It is fair to argue Rittenhouse should never have been there that night. It is also fair to describe what he was doing as attempted vigilantism. But the fact remains that Rittenhouse likely would not have been in Kenosha at all had it not been for the total breakdown in law and order encouraged by the leftist media and sanctioned by Wisconsin’s Democratic government.

The tragedy in Kenosha is an indictment of every single person who justified the rioting and every single government official who failed to use the full force of the law to end it. That a 17-year-old boy felt the responsibility to help the government do its job is not a mark against him but against everyone who abandoned that responsibility and left it to him.

Not one resident in Kenosha should have been worried about businesses being looted or burned down. Not one resident should have felt the need to step in and help law enforcement meet the threat. There should have been an overwhelming, forceful response from the state and federal governments that left no doubt in anyone’s minds that chaotic violence would not be tolerated.

If that had happened, would Rittenhouse even be on trial today?