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Kyle Rittenhouse starts gun rights group
Bearing Arms ^ | 8/17/23 | Tom Knighton

Posted on 08/17/2023 4:12:17 PM PDT by CFW

There are few people who can quite express what it’s like to need a firearm when a mob is chasing you like Kyle Rittenhouse. As a 17-year-old, he found himself in that situation and pulled the trigger when he needed to. Some claim he didn’t, but a jury of his peers found otherwise, and to be honest, it never should have gotten that far.

Since then, he’s sort of enjoyed the life of a celebrity in political circles. After all, he was to be sacrificed on the altar of political necessity, only he actually slipped away again.

Now, he’s turning his attention to something else.

Kyle Rittenhouse has launched an anti-gun control nonprofit in Texas, according to a filing with the Texas Secretary of State’s office, which was first reported on by the Texas Tribune—a sign the young man who became a conservative star after being acquitted of killing two Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020, is ramping up his political activity in Texas.

KEY FACTS Rittenhouse filed with the Secretary of State on July 23 to create the Rittenhouse Foundation, a nonprofit based in Fort Worth, Texas, which aims to protect “an individual’s inalienable right to bear arms” through “education and legal assistance,” according to the filing. Rittenhouse is listed as a director alongside Chris McNutt, president of the gun advocacy group Texas Gun Rights and Shelby Griesinger, treasurer of the Defend Texas Liberty PAC, which has financed the campaigns of right-wing candidates across the state."

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Good for Rittenhouse!
1 posted on 08/17/2023 4:12:17 PM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

I’ll join


2 posted on 08/17/2023 4:15:06 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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Hope he’s doing okay. He had a tough time and probably fifty percent of the country hates his guts for defending himself


3 posted on 08/17/2023 4:21:01 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: CFW
This young man did better than I would have. d;^)


4 posted on 08/17/2023 4:28:51 PM PDT by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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To: CFW
a sign the young man who became a conservative star after being acquitted of killing two Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020, is ramping up his political activity in Texas....
These people can't even state the objective facts, that he was found not guilty of murder in a case of self defense, when he as a minor, was assaulted , with the intent of murdering him, by criminals engaged in riot and mayhem, in the very old and legal sense of the words.

5 posted on 08/17/2023 4:30:23 PM PDT by Waverunner
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“Good for Rittenhouse!”

I LOVE THIS GUY. Instead of cowering from lawsuits when people, even here, were saying that he ‘needs to keep his mouth shut’, the dude went on the OFFENSIVE and has continued to this day.

I was on another forum with some Leftist dude and he and others wanted Kyle JAILED FOR LIFE, not because he wasn’t justified, but because he killed (and disarmed) 3 of their people.

Even at my level of understanding the Left, only topped by Rush (maybe), I was still shocked by the degree of HATRED they had towards him. To them, NOTHING MATTERED, he needed to spend the rest of his life in jail.

(just a side note - is DeSantis, in joining the Left in saying that the 2020 election was legit really on our side?)


6 posted on 08/17/2023 4:35:32 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: CopperTop

Jeez - that photo...

He looks like he’s just seen the holy grail.

I’ll leave it to Laz to figure out what I just said... :)


7 posted on 08/17/2023 5:02:12 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: CFW

Article should read he was defending himself against blm/antifa terrorists.


8 posted on 08/17/2023 5:04:15 PM PDT by ealgeone
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I’ll join just to piss off the anti gun freaks. Do we get a cool bumper sticker or window flag?


9 posted on 08/17/2023 5:06:42 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: CopperTop

LOL!


10 posted on 08/17/2023 5:08:25 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: 1FreeAmerican

When a woman displays them like that, she wants you to look at them.


11 posted on 08/17/2023 5:15:43 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Absolutely! She got some rich old bastard to pay for them, and she’s damn proud of it!


12 posted on 08/17/2023 6:11:29 PM PDT by Fireone (Who killed Obama's chef?)
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To: Taxman

ping


13 posted on 08/17/2023 7:26:25 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: CFW



14 posted on 08/17/2023 8:19:19 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Lazamataz

I am still amazed at his discipline with that rifle.


15 posted on 08/17/2023 10:26:56 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Fireone

You know you have too much government when you have to ask permission to store bottles of wine at the bottom of the ocean. As if everyone should know there is a Department of Storing Wine at the Bottom of the Ocean.


16 posted on 08/18/2023 5:31:10 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: Fireone

Wrong thread.


17 posted on 08/18/2023 5:31:41 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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