He was 17. A child, essentially.
Kyle Rittenhouse couldn’t vote.
Couldn’t legally buy cigarettes.
Was barely old enough to buy a ticket for an R-rated movie.
Yet last year, as a 17-year-old, he and others around him thought it appropriate for him to carry an AR-15-style rifle into public protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin. That day, young Kyle Rittenhouse killed two people.