The Rittenhouse affair is not as black-and-white as you say, Donuel; take a good look at the video and read the news accounts (not the opinion columns).

Kyle Rittenhouse definitely went looking for trouble, no doubt about it. But the video shows someone throwing a bag at him, and gunfire can be heard on the audio track -- apparently somebody nearby was popping off with a handgun. The incident will take some serious investigating before the ins and outs are fully clear. What, if anything, was in the bag? What, if anything, was said or done to provoke the throwing of the bag? Where was the shooter with the handgun? What else was happening in the immediate area?

The Wisconsin laws about citizen activism, self-defence and standing ground are all relevant here, and certainly will provide material for a robust defence that could actually fly.

Depending, of course, on what the prosecutor does with the over-arching problem of a 17-year-old boy from Illinois bringing a military-style weapon across a state line to a jurisdiction where the open-carry privilege starts at age 18.