Representative republicanism. Private untrained citizens are not allowed to take the law into their own hands in a representative republic, regardless of their opinion of the job performance of mayors or police. You favor “Road Warrior”.

Rittenhouse wasn’t protecting his property. His property was in a different state. And police no place “stood down”. Scores of rioters all over, including in Kenosha, were arrested. Kenosha didn’t collapse in a convulsion of BLM mob violence. The entire city is just fine, and I’m all for prosecuting every looter and arsonist, and for property owners pursuing their remedies with insurance companies. So it’s some strange dark fantasy of yours that law enforcement disbanded, leaving a lawless void everywhere.

Kyle Rittenhouse walked into a mob with a loaded AR 15 and killed two people. It’s insane to suggest that his victims and their families didn’t deserve their day in court. You weren’t there that night.

I would never support Seattle’s reaction to CHAZ, or Portland’s tolerance of nightly mob violence for months, or looters running around the Miracle Mile in Chicago, or SF deciding shoplifting is not a crime. The way to address all those things is at the ballot box, speaking out against it, all those rights in the Constitution. But not one of those cities have collapsed into spasms of lawless violence. That’s a bullshit myth, used in this instance to justify vigilantism, which is exactly what Rittenhouse was engaged in. It’s the dictionary definition of the word. That wasn’t the charge against him, and the acquittal doesn’t change the meaning of “vigilante”. Taking the law into his own hands - these people weren’t defending their own property.