NEW YEAR 2022

Christmas 2021 is in the books and I'm just happy to have surprised another stressful 'Holiday' season. I love our Savior, Jesus Christ, with all my heart. And I love studying the lessons he taught during his mortal ministry on this earth. Healing is His goal; he wants all of his children to live happy and productive lives preparing for our eternal existence when our mortal mission has ended. 

His mission did not end with mortality. He lives today and he continues to teach us real time lessons through His prophets. He knows the world evolves and challenges get harder with each generation. Compared to the challenges my grandchildren face, my challenges could hardly be considered challenges. In my day we didn't have the challenges of the internet. The Internet is a great tool that can help us in a lot of ways, but it can also bring us a lot of grief. I never had to worry about things like flash mobs or internet shaming where ugly things can be spread about people anonymously, ruining reputations and in some cases causing people to kill themselves. And pornographic images are easily accessed. News cycles don't really seem to exist anymore in a world where politics is everything. I'd love to be able to watch a real news program that actually tells us what is happening in the world. There has to be more than our petty bickering over what actually happened on January 6, 2021. I'd like to know more about what's happening in Southeast Asia, and China and North Korea. What's going on in Africa and the Middle East? 

I've had enough of Senator Paul insulting Anthony Fauci endlessly. We get it, Tony is a scumbag who gave our tax money to a lab in China to conduct gain of function research even though it is illegal to do so, but insulting the guy every isn't going to make him change his story and as long as he has democrats covering for him there's nothing they can charge him with. So he funded a project that resulted in millions of deaths and shut down the world economy, to quote the unembarrassable Hilary Clinton, "What difference does it make at  this point?" That's becoming their standard response whenever they cause a disaster. Democrats have never cared about the law and they aren't going to start now. As long as democrats have a stranglehold on the positions of power there will not be any justice for Fauci no matter how guilty he is. I haven't watched a so-called 'news' program in several months. About every couple of months I check to see if CNN is still telling everyone what I think, and MSNBC is just spouting gibberish that no one can understand and Fox News is still spouting the same loop about election fraud, and the ills of homelessness, or the fact that democrats consider burning cities and murdering people is a legitimate form of protest and it never changes. They rarely talk about current events that are happening around he world. 

It could be that journalism really is dead and no one wants to risk their life getting stories that will never be aired. Reporting on places like China and North Korea is very dangerous. The same is true of many parts of Eastern Europe and the Middle East. If a person is going to get killed for doing some real investigative reporting they should at least have a paycheck to leave their next of kin. It would be great if 2022 became a year of prosperity throughout the world, if the United States of America would exercise some true leadership and stop rewarding despots who want to bully their neighbors and create an unstable world. We need to stop supporting the build up of the military in communist China. Engaging them in an economic war now would be a lot cheaper than engaging them in a world war in a few years. 

We need to know more about what is happening in communist Vietnam where people who dare to tell the truth about the government oppression there are sent to prison for decades. And why are so many people starving in India where they brag about their nuclear weapons capability? As the world becomes smaller it also becomes more dangerous. Americans need to realize that slave labor in Third World countries is still slave labor. Our manufacturing should be done here at home by Americans. It might cost a little more, but the quality will be better and our people could use a few more jobs that pay a little better. 

I'm not a huge fan of New Years resolutions, but I make a few every year anyway just in case I actually follow through some time. This year I'm going to try a little harder to look for products that aren't produced by slave labor where people literally are forced to work twelve hour days in unhealthy factories that pollute the air and water more than ours did during our darkest hour. If you really want to raise the world's standard of living, start at home. Buy American.

Have a happy new year. 

 

PALM BEACH FLORIDA

New Yorkers beware. And show some respect for the people you are invading. Democrats always think they are right about every issue and if anyone disagrees that person should be shunned, fired, and run out of town. It's that simple. Now a few New Yorkers are getting it back and they don't like it. First of all if you consider yourself 'woke' there are only two or three states that will tolerate you. Either stay in New York or move to California or the Pacific Northwest where they think that is cool. Florida has great weather and they believe in individual liberty; that the individual has rights that the 'government' can't take away. To a democrat that is a danger to our democracy. Democrats are not a freedom loving people. 

When a concerned citizen, or group of concerned citizens placed a note on the windshields of cars parked in a Palm Beach neighborhood warning New Yorkers that if they consider themselves 'woke' they should probably consider moving back to the liberal toilet they just left because New York isn't a lousy place to live because the state is inherently bad, it's the people that make it the way it is. New York is a great place to live when governed properly, but they make laws that are simply not compatible with the ideals we believe in America. And the taxes there are of course outrageous. After decades of voting for tax increases for whatever social program is on the ballot, defunding the police, re allocating police resources in a way that causes a dramatic increase in crime, democrats look to Florida for a safe haven and then when they get there they start trying to change the political make up of the state. 

Then they claim that people warning them that their stupid, ruinous ideas and policies will not be tolerated in Palm Beach that democracy is in peril. No, that's called Neighborhood Watch. It's called being a good neighbor and letting you know that you are welcome to stay as long as you recognize that New York is a terrible place to live because of the people who live there, not because the dirt in New York is somehow worse than the dirt in other states. The dirt can't vote. If the dirt could vote New Yorkers wouldn't be leaving in search of better living conditions because the dirt knows what people need, and they don't need to pay people for not working, or to throw money at people because they are a certain race, or outlawing soft drinks, or whatever. The fact is that most New Yorkers are dumber than dirt and that concerns many of the people in Florida who do value the Bill of Rights. In Florida they believe in the right to self defense for example. They understand that no firearm has ever killed anyone but some idiot used the firearm to kill someone or a group of people. 

They also believe that people should work for a living no matter what race they are. And they believe in being civil to each other. New Yorkers have views on sex education for children that aren't compatible with a lot of people who have religious values and think that there is a time and place for such education, but perhaps kindergarten isn't the best place to begin teaching about birth control or a teachers favorite 'positions'. No one is saying that there aren't any perverts in Florida, but they don't celebrate their perverts the way New York does. Floridians aren't convinced that wearing a mask is the answer to the spread of covid 19. There is no clear evidence that it does help. Democrats have done their best to make sure we never have a good understanding about what does help stem the spread of the coronavirus. They don't even want to admit that covid 19 came from Wuhan China. Being a people diametrically opposed to freedom they use the coronavirus to strip us of our civil liberties. To make us wear masks even if they don't do any good, or get a vaccination that may actually have long term harmful effects. Democrats have no tolerance for a free exchange of ideas; once they have spoken there is no need for a free exchange of ideas because they have already told you everything there is to know about whatever subject is being discussed so please kindly SHUT UP! Facebook and Twitter are prime examples. If you dare to opine that masks might not be the answer to the spread of disease you are suspended from the sight. And there are a variety of others subjects that are similarly 'tolerated'. 

Palm Beach police said they received reports about the notes and when they investigated there wasn't anything to investigate since it is not against the law to leave fliers on vehicle windshields. And the sad truth is if the notes had been advertising a local meeting to ban guns or how to increase local taxes for more AIDS awareness, or maybe they should get a petition against a local church where same sex marriages aren't being performed,  the 'woke' crowd would have been all smiles. If there's a way to take away a person's freedom democrats are all over it. And while I'm on the topic of things being a 'threat to our democracy' I just want to suggest that even that is a stupid slogan. As long as we're allowed to vote our democracy is fine. Even if some people cheat, and democrats love to cheat, our democracy is still working. Firing people for voting for a candidate an employer doesn't approve of is a threat to our democracy and democrats fired a lot of people when it was discovered that they voted for Donald Trump. Firing people for belonging to the wrong church is a threat to our democracy and in California anyone who supported Proposition 8 was in serious jeopardy of being fired or worse. They even published a list of all of the people who donated to the Prop 8 campaign, along with the amount of money each individual contributed, and hundreds of people were fired for supporting it.  Forcing people to deny their basic religious beliefs is a threat to our democracy, firing people who like to shoot guns is a threat to our democracy, and appointing Supreme Court justices who are hostile to our Constitution is a threat to our democracy. 

Democrats today are a serious threat to our democracy. I live in California and I forget how many freedoms we've voted away until I travel to America and see how Americans live. Just not having to wear a mask everywhere I go is worth leaving this state occasionally. I'm a firearms enthusiast and I can't stand all of the laws preventing me from buying certain guns and ammunition. I like to fish and there are certain hooks we aren't allowed to use because they might damage the fish. First of all, I'm not a catch and release dude; I eat the damn things. I actually cook them myself and they taste good too! 

Fortunately I live in one of the few fairly conservative areas of the state so homelessness isn't too bad, although it is getting worse, but we were just able to obtain a court order to get rid of a growing 'homeless village' that was a real health threat to our community, but traveling through San Francisco and Los Angeles is pretty disgusting. There are dirty tent cities all over the place. Why democrats are afraid of clean, safe communities is a mystery to me. That is until I see Californians fleeing to neighboring states, and New Yorkers fleeing to Florida, then I realize that maybe they do prefer clean and safe cities they just have no idea how to make them happen. Trying to educate a democrat is like trying to teach a pig how to fly so the people in Florida are using Neighborhood Watch tactics to keep the 'woke' crowd in check. Unfortunately, true to form the New York transplants are claiming they are receiving death threats. What else is new? Asking you to try to remember as far back as yesterday when you left the toilet you created in New York and then think about what you left and try to not make the same mistakes in your new state, is not the same as a death threat. Democrats make threats, Republicans educate. Any democrats looking for better weather should come to Southern California, it's a lost cause anyway. We believe in criminal's rights over victims rights, that kindergartners need to know all about human reproduction, taxes need to be raised so we can pay people from certain racial groups some money for something their ancestors may or may not have suffered at the hands of another racial group whose progenitors had nothing to do with even if there were some racial injustice generations ago. 

Anyone who considers themselves to be 'woke' should just shelter in place. Democrats have come up with a lot of real stupid ideas and being 'woke' is a real knee slapper. 

Fauci?

 We are desperately in need of better information about the coronavirus, covid 19 and I don't think we'll be getting that from Tony. We know it came from a lab in Wuhan China, we don't know and probably never will know if the spread was deliberate or not. We know that it can be deadly, but it isn't necessarily deadly. We don't really understand how it spreads. Tens of thousands of families get together all the time and never have a problem with the spread of covid 19, but occasionally a family gets together and half the family gets covid 19 and dies from it. 

It appears to be about 99 percent survivable, which is pretty good.  We know that politicians have done a great job at making people fear covid 19. We have to wear masks everywhere we go in certain states because politicians tell us that if we don't we are terrible people and should be fined or imprisoned or both. Yet in states where there are no mask laws people still get covid 19, but no more than states who require masks. 

We have a vaccination that does prevent the spread of covid 19, and now we are told we need to get a booster shot less than a year after the vaccination because there are other 'strains' of the coronavirus, the 'Delta' strain, and now the 'Omocron' strain. And now Dr. Fauci is telling us that we may need several more booster shots to keep everyone safe.

In California many cities make citizens carry a piece of paper proving they have been vaccinated. Now there are booster shots available. Soon democrat kings are going to require people to carry around a book full of visa stamp-like pages to prove their peasants have been good little peasants and taken all of their shots. Pin cushions? Other countries can treat their citizens like that. I hope the people in California soon wake up and realize that we are a freedom loving people and if someone wants to dictate to us what we can and can't do that person has to go. 

It's time to realize that there is only so much we can reasonably be expected to do about the coronavirus. Every year we are going to lose some people until it runs its course. If people want to wear a mask everywhere they go that's fine and if people don't want to wear a mask that's fine too. Get a shot, don't get a shot, get boosted from now till the end of the year, or don't get a shot at all, it doesn't matter to me. Everyone on earth is going to die of something. Some will be young, some will be old and it really doesn't matter, but there is no way that the coronavirus is going to kill everyone on earth.  

What matters is living the best life we can as long as we are here. Dr. Fauci apparently did a good job of helping some people when aids was reaching epidemic levels among a certain population during the decades of the 1980's and the 1990's, but he hasn't done much to help with the coronavirus that has gripped the world. He's helped ensure that we never find out how it started, or how it spreads. He doesn't seem to have much interest in knowing why it spread throughout the world so fast. Holding on to the power seems to suit his needs. Telling the rest of us how to live seems to give him tremendous satisfaction.

Luckily for him he has Uncle Joe Biden making sure no one listens to what Senator Rand Paul is saying. No need to be unkind to a senior citizen, just let Tony retire with a 'Thank You' and 'good luck'. Let him go! Take the politics out of science and find a way to live with China's latest gift to the world. 

Moer Madness from the Left

 I doubt that Keith Olberman is going broke financially, but he does seem a little desperate for attention. Easily one of the dimmest bulbs in the democrat drawer, somehow he manages to keep his job, wherever that is. Democrats seem to love him which brings me to my point about democrats and family values. Democrats are simply anti family. Not as individuals; I know several democrats who are decent people who've been deceived by the democrat 'ideals' whatever they are. 

Democrats say that if you are not pro abortion you hate women. Complete nonsense which is demonstrably false, but that is their position. If you don't agree with gay marriage you hate homosexuals. And if you think it is wrong to change your gender then you are just a horrible person and should probably be exiled or killed, because you simply are not fit to live in any decent society. So back to Keith the skank. 

By any measure Mitt Romney is a better man than Olberman could ever hope to be. Romney has done more to help thousands of people. Keith Olberman only wants to help himself. Romney has a beautiful family with kids who have grown up to be productive members of society. His kids have kids who are well on their way to strengthening whatever community they live in. Keith? Well, not so much. Keith is a democrats democrat. His main question in life is 'What can people do for me?'. He pokes fun at people like Mitt Romney probably because he is jealous of Romney's success, and because he knows he could never be in the same class with Mitt Romney. He also hates Romney because Romney claims to be a republican, which is a dubious claim. 

Mitt Romney is pro choice. And he believes in man made global warming, which are two of the main things democrats are constantly ramming down everyone's throats. I'm not sure where Mitt stands on welfare, or solutions for the homeless, or even raising taxes on everyone but himself, but politics aside Mitt is a good man. He lives a clean life and sets a good example for others to follow. Mitt Romney is a man to look up to and emulate, something Keith Olberman would never understand. I don't care much for Keith, I think he is a liar and a simpleton. 

I think very highly of Mitt Romney and hope he can continue being a good example for all of us. Maybe someday he will join us politically as well. Nobody is perfect. In my book Romney is a good man and that kind of vulgar remark toward a good man could only come from a democrat desperate for the limelight. 

SELF DEFENSE

 Okay, you are asleep late at night, or whenever and you hear some miscreant forcing open a door or window to your home. What should you do? Call the police? Handle it yourself? I'd say both. If you have time you call the police then go take care of the problem while the police respond. Your kids are all asleep in different bedrooms of the house and your wife is asleep next to you. Maybe she should call 911 while you confront the bad guy(s). 

You will need a flashlight and the firearm of your choice. I like shotguns or the trusty M4. Pistols are fine as well, but hopefully you've been practicing regularly and can safely handle a firearm even when the adrenaline is pumping. There is nothing more tragic than mistakenly killing or seriously wounding a loved one. If you have a German Shepard that will come in handy too. In fact that loyal dog will most likely send the bad guys packing long before you even open your bedside electronic safe. Personally I'm not a big fan of killing bad guys if it can be avoided. I'm no fan of letting them get away either. We have a God given right to defend ourselves and our own neighbors are trying to take that away from us. Don't let them! The right to self defense is a basic human right. The right to have the police show up an hour after the bad guy has left and you are in the hospital waiting the five hours it takes to receive emergency medical assistance is not a God given right or a basic human right; it is government overreach. 

Telling anyone they can't carry a gun for self defense is a violation of our human rights and a serious one. If a bad guy doesn't want to get shot he can look for a house occupied by a democrat. And the sign nailed to the tree in my yard that proclaims, "I shoot first, check for a pulse, shoot again, then call 911" is not a joke. It's a fair warning. Crooks who break into a person't house are playing the lottery; is the homeowner armed or not? If he or she is, is that homeowner willing to kill in self defense or the defense of other family members? In my case the answer is yes to all of the above and if I hear a bad guy breaking into my neighbor's house, you'll get the same result. She's not a democrat, but she lives alone and her eyesight isn't what it used to be. Sandy is my German Shepard and she is ready when the time comes. Years of obedience training and practice have prepared her to take care of unauthorized visitors while I wake up. 

Our government officials are a mess in many states. Too many of them hate people who own firearms and I really don't understand why. Any intruder has the option of staying out of my house and I encourage them to take that option in the strongest terms. If you haven't been invited into my home stay out. If you take the other option and choose to force your way in, you better hope I'm not there or be ready to leave this frail existence a little early because the only hesitation you'll notice from me is the split-second it takes to get a good sight picture before I pull the trigger and end your pathetic existence. If I'm gone and Sandy is there alone, she has been trained to hold you until I get back and she's good at it. The more you resist, the more damage she'll do to you so just do as she says and when I get home I'll take over. And of course after the police and coroner have done their duty and hauled your carcass away I'll sleep like a baby. 

The Second Amendment to our Constitution guarantees us the right to keep and bear arms. We can have an army and a police force too, but the right of an individual to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Judges are supposed to be smart, but they don't seem to understand the guaranty in that statement. If you're comfortable with the idea of waiting the 15-20 minutes it takes for the police to arrive at your house in an emergency while an armed intruder forces entry into your home that's fine with me, but you don't have the right to impose that option on the rest of the country. 

If people are concerned about the potential for some to use firearms in an inappropriate way the best thing to do is enhance education about what a gun is. The fact is that no gun has ever shot anybody, no knife has ever stabbed anyone, no car has ever run over anyone, etc. All of these things are inanimate objects incapable of accomplishing anything on their own. Of the more than 40,000 incidents of deaths caused by people using firearms each year half of them are from people shooting themselves. Mental health is a huge issue that is all but ignored in this country. A lot can be accomplished toward solving most problems by educating people about things they don't understand, such as firearms. I don't like educating five year olds about birth control, but democrats think that is vital. So if it's important to teach kids about birth control why can't we teach them firearms safety? There are almost 400 million guns in the country and I don't think millions of gun owners in the country are going to just hand them over to whatever government official wants them. If we started educating our young people about respect for firearms there is a good chance they'd be less likely to accidentally shoot someone or themselves and they'd be less likely to use a gun to do something truly evil. 

Democrats may want to disarm all Americans but it is never going to happen so they really should embrace the idea of educating children about guns. I've heard democrats say that the idea of education school children about gun safety and care and storage is a preposterous idea, but they never say why it's a bad idea. Gun safety is way better than gun violence. 

The truth is I like guns and lots of other Americans like guns. I like to shoot targets, sometimes I like to hunt, and if necessary I would use a gun to defend myself or the people I care about from an armed aggressor. The Constitution guarantees all of us that right.

Next year we have a chance to atone for the sins of 2020. Do yourself a favor and only vote for candidates who support our constitution. The rest are just going to strip you of your rights. 

Christmas is here again

The Beach Boys sing a song that includes the line, "Christmas comes this time each year..." and it does every year. For a couple of hundred years we've enjoyed an unprecedented amount of religious freedom here. No other country has ever allowed citizens the type of freedom here and as far as I know there is no other country that allows citizens the opportunities we enjoy here. There was a time briefly in the sixties when atheists were becoming vocal about the opposition to religion and religious beliefs. We used to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every morning when I was in grade school. We used to honor the men and women who risked everything they had so we could remain free from oppression. Atheists didn't like to hear children giving respect to our country because the Pledge includes the words, "Under God". So atheists claim there is no God and they are comfortable with that belief and of course they have the right to believe whatever they want as long as they don't turn those beliefs into actions that will harm others.

The fact is that there is a God and no one can change that. If a parent has a child they don't want to say the words "Under God" they can teach their child that it isn't necessary for that child to say those words. I don't know how many atheists there were in the United States in 1963, but the only people who I was aware of who didn't recite the Pledge were Jehovah's Witnesses, a group of people who believe in God and won't pledge their allegiance to anyone but God. And that is their right and I never saw anyone make fun of the kids in our school who were Jehovah's witnesses, although I'm sure there were a few bucket heads who did. Atheists? I think there may have been one kid who said there was no such thing as God. I've always been taught, and I still believe that people have an absolute right to be wrong. As long as they aren't interfering with my right to be wrong. And about three percent of the population of America is reported to be atheist today yet they claim the right to tell the rest of us that we can't worship God. Since America has become increasingly cowardly and allows judges to dictate our religious beliefs to us, we no longer sing Christmas carols in public schools or put up Christmas displays in front of or inside of public buildings or in town squares. 

Judges have effectively provided cover for atheists  to bully the rest of the country into abandoning any public display of religious symbols even though the vast majority of Americans still want to sing Christmas carols in school and put up public displays of Jesus Christ in court houses and city halls. I don't think most Christians mind at all a public display of the Menorah or even a Muslim symbol that honors the Creator of the world. Most Americans are not atheists, but believers in God. And most religious people have no problem enjoying the religious practices of other peoples as long as they are respectful of the rights of others and non violent. An example of unacceptable religious practice would be the Taliban. And another is Atheism. The Taliban are violent and intolerant in their core beliefs. And Atheists are just intolerant of the beliefs of others. Atheists don't want to be told that they are free to ignore public displays if they wish, they want to tell the rest of us that we don't have the right to enjoy them. And unfortunately they are winning.

Jesus Christ is the only reason we have a Christmas season. Fortunately if there is an atheist tradition I don't know what it is. I doubt it is anything beautiful, peaceful, or festive. It probably wouldn't be anything at all and they have the absolute freedom to decorate their homes with signs declaring that their is no God if that's what they want to do. They do not have  the right to dictate to the rest of us what we have to believe. I don't know what motivates judges but they have given atheists a great deal of power which is terrible. 

For me Christmas is a time of great beauty. Scenes of snow drifts, Frosted windows, ice skating on frozen ponds, and decorated buildings and trees. It is a time of peace and beauty and should be appreciated by all even if they don't think God exists. How can anyone be offended by beautiful music and lights? Anyone who doesn't like Christmas is free to ignore it.  

The only thing I don't like about Christmas is the increase in commercialization. I'll keep the decorations and the music, but don't expect an elaborate gift from me. And I hope no one is worrying about getting anything elaborate for me. Time with family and friends in a beautiful surrounding is all I need. Let's play some games, sing some carols, eat some good food and remember to be grateful for the things God has given us! 

Whether or not you choose to believe, God lives and He is our Eternal Father. 

Merry Christmas!!

And to my Jewish brothers and sisters A Very Joyous Hannakah!! 

To my fellow Abrahamites, I wish you a happy season too. May God be With you Always!!

 

Karl Rittenhouse

Karl Rittenhouse' acquittal for murder is good news for all Americans. Among other things the Bill of Rights guarantees us the right to defend ourselves against unlawful violent criminals and that's what Karl did. Some people may not like guns and they may think the Second Amendment is being misinterpreted by people who believe that the phrase, 'the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed' means we can hire police officers and soldiers, and arm them, but the rest of us are not covered by the Second Amendment, which is nonsense of course. 

The right to keep and bear arms sounds pretty simple to most people. We can purchase guns if we want and if necessary we can defend ourselves and the lives of others using a gun. Too many states have outlawed just about every type of firearm there is. Lawmakers in California have been so stupid that they've passed laws against firearms possession that even they can't explain. I was a peace officer in Los Angeles for 36 years and there were two laws I refused to enforce unless I had a very good reason; seatbelts. If ever there was an illegal law it's that one. The other is carrying a gun. Unless someone is using the gun to intimidate people or commit some other crime I couldn't care less about that person carrying a gun. In fact in Los Angeles it's pretty dumb for a person to walk around unarmed. Especially now with democrats telling the police to stop harassing criminals. 

And the 'leave the bad guys alone' mandate is working out very well. Just about every category of crime has increased by triple digits. I was there a couple of days ago and it just keeps getting worse. It's just a dirty city. And it is run by democrats who have decriminalized theft to the point where theft is barely a prosecutable crime and all crimes are increasing. 

And today democrats have morphed into something grotesque. They want to control everything we say and do. They no longer recognize honest differences; instead they think if anyone thinks different then they do  those people have to be silenced. They invented a law called 'hate speech' that was designed to ensure that everyone talks the same and has the same opinions. If you oppose gay marriage you are no longer exercising your freedom of religious expression you are guilty of hating gay people and you can be fired for that. If you don't believe that the police go out everyday looking for black men to kill you are guilty of hating black people. If you oppose abortion you hate women and so on. And there are many other examples. So far there are no laws that allow prison terms for the above 'crimes' but people do lose their jobs and sometimes even friends. And soon there may be actual legal penalties. Churches are under tremendous pressure to accept and perform same gender marriages and some just won't do it. What will happen to them? The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of worship. Many democrats support that, but the party has shifted and the party leadership opposes just about all freedoms and that is why they have to try to find a way to make the Second Amendment disappear. The American people are the largest militia in the world and they are well armed. Many of them are also well trained 

To democrat party leadership Rittenhouse is the epitome of what's wrong with America. First of all he's white which just makes their blood boil. Second he carried a gun! He carried a gun! And he used that gun to kill white men in an angry orgy of violence. Democrats were burning Kenosha, Wisconsin down because a black man wanted for rape didn't want to go to jail so he started a fight with the police when they tried to arrest him. He was armed with a knife and during the ensuing fight the police tased him a couple of times to no effect and at the suspect got away briefly. When they caught him again he violently turned to face them and one of them thought he still had the knife and shot him several times seriously wounding him and ending the fight. Another clear example of the the police using lethal force when being threatened by a violent man armed with a knife and then being labeled racists because this particular armed criminal was black. The police did what they had to do and Rittenhouse did what he had to do. The right to self defense has to be absolute; one of our most basic human rights.  

So much for women's rights, if a black man rapes a black woman she deserved it I guess. And if a black man doesn't want to go to prison for committing a violent crime the police should just leave him alone I guess. Frequently when a black criminal starts a fight with the police and ends up being seriously injured or killed there has to be a peaceful demonstration that turns into a riot and then a shoplifting spree and Rittenhouse wanted to witness the scene for himself so he travelled to Kenosha to see what was going on. And since people are often killed or seriously injured during democrat peaceful demonstrations, where buildings are being burned and looted, traffic is being stopped for no reason and often white people are dragged from their cars and savagely beaten Rittenhouse borrowed a rifle from a friend of his. A lot of Americans don't consider burning buildings, looting, and beating people to death, a peaceful demonstration so they vote for the other person. 

So Karl drove to the scene to witness the 'peaceful' demonstration and somehow ended up agreeing with a few democrats who were supporting the carnage and they tried to beat him to death because that's what peaceful demonstrators to to people who disagree with them. It's a democrat right to express their righteous anger if someone doesn't march to their tune. And Karl probably did support the police and was not in agreement with what the crowd was doing. Karl didn't want to get beat to death so he used his rifle to defend himself and he shot three people, two of them fatally. We all have a right to defend ourselves when we are threatened. The police are great but they can't be everywhere so when we are threatened with violence we have to be able to defend ourselves until the police show up. 

Especially in America today. Democrats don't like pro-active police departments. They want the police to stay in their cars and leave people alone. The need to exercise our right to defend ourselves and our loved ones has never been greater. The police are losing their ability to keep citizens safe from attack because democrats have told everybody the police are dishonest, violent, and racist. Karl Rittenhouse did what he had to do and fortunately the jury agreed that his actions were reasonable and necessary. 

For me our Constitution is a sacred document that needs to be taken seriously and it's worked for almost 250 years. And the Bill of Rights is perhaps the most important part of the Constitution. I don't want to be ruled by a tyrannical monarch. I cherish the freedoms we enjoy here and I agree with the principle of individual responsibility. It's not mean to punish people who steal and commit violent crimes. And it's not mean to expect people to work for a living. And it's not mean to allow people to fail. The right to self defense is a sacred human right and no government has the right to take that away.