One of the mob shouted "He's getting away from street justice!" when he was moving towards the police and signaling that he was not threatening them....

Great break down of what seemingly happened.

Has it been established that Kyle actually shot the first attacker? In the videos I have seen, the two are behind a car, there is a single shot, followed by four more in quick succession (which sounded different to me). Then Kyle runs around from behind the care to check on the downed man.

That kid can share a fox hole with me any day. I'd be happy to go to war with him.

Glorious

The children of Gen X kids should still be normal. God willing!

Impressive young man.

The parents of this child should take great pride in their son despite all the legal challenges that lie ahead for them.

Amazing young man!

I too marveled at this kid's quick-reaction to distinguish between an imminent threat and non-threat. It was absolutely uncanny. Most people would have over-reacted and made a mistake shooting someone who wasn't a threat.

My son watched the filmed event frame-by-frame and said it better than I could describe it. He said it was like watching a John Wick scene from a movie. Rittenhouse's reaction for distinguishing an imminent threat was unreal like it was indeed a movie.

One caution I have, and this is certainly not meant to be interpreted as a criticism, concerns the use of "GenX" (or any other tagged generation). One has to name something in order to categorize it and separate it from the others. Labeling something is also often used to typecast. When it is used as such its sole purpose is to divide. If you think about it, the generation gap rhetoric is completely nonsensical. Prior to WWII, there was no such thing as a generation gap or labeling generations. No generation is greater than the other. We all fall far short of what we should be. IMHO, we need to humble ourselves in this regard and be the best character we can be. Each generation also produces its own outstanding and great individuals. Kyle Rittenhouse is an example of this. I am old enough to be his grandfather, and albeit I wouldn't want to experience his Vi et armis, I would pray my reaction would be as immaculate as Kyle's was. I hope that the charges against him are dropped. The public should be putting all the pressure necessary to get these DAs to drop the case against him. It was the clearest textbook example of self-defense one can see.

I predict a bright future for this kid.

The kid is a hero, plain and simple.

We’re not breeding it.....we’re training it online via Fortnight, Rainbow 6, Call of Duty etc. Most of these kids have spent thousands, no tens of thousands of hours in virtual combat where they are shooting and being shot at without consequence. Yes, I’m sure he also did some real target practice as well but from a mental standpoint I have to believe the war simulation games have some effect though on the calmness and presence of mind when actual things go down - they’ve been there before.

For how fucked up the country is, I still believe in American exceptionalism.

You would be hard pressed to find a kid like Kyle anywhere else in the world.

Sure hope all this info makes it into the court case.

I sure hope All this info makes it into the court case! Good kid!

Yes, that kid surely had more presence of mind then even adults today.

Lovely and detailed write up, only one negative. And it's the same one that got us into this mess to begin with.

The majority of people who would have/will have watched the video of this 17 year old, won't even have enough presence of mind to analyze the behavior and the reasons behind his actions not even the difficulty and rarity of his behavior that night.

They will either see someone normal or doing nothing special or see what they think is something they would also do, "easily!!!" Had that been them, or even worst, their own child would have done the same... Hah, some would even make the claim their child would have done better somehow!

At least we see it and at least he did it.

A true American hero.

When I see examples of behavior like this, I truly feel a charity and a an NGO needs to be setup to not only assist the hero and their family, financially, but to defend them. he needs more time to grow and experience life, to truly grow into his future self. That can't be interrupted.

He handled it better than most cops would have

Awesome breakdown

What's that saying? they will know them by their fruits or some such. We also have Nick Sandman.

It all started with him hitting the ground and immediately being kicked in the face, right after having shot someone. His adrenaline must have been sky high. Remarkable.

Not putting a second round in SNEAKY_FELON showed extreme mercy; it would have been justified because the gun could still switch hands.

Watching Kyle fight so calmly for his life was inspiring to me. I don't know how else to say it. He is quite a man at only 17.

This might sound a bit daft but those shoot'em up videos games are so realistic these days, they're almost like a training ground in your front room.. No idea if this kid ever played them but it's possible..

Is there a higher resolution image please? Also in your title I think you mean Generation Z.

What does PoM mean?

There's plenty of worthless genZ kids too. But millennials largely are outclassed here

Leaves out the important part where after he's downed skater and "medic", someone else near him holds his hands up and backs off. Kid doesn't shoot him.

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I think author mean GenZ.

But otherwise excellent breakdown.

That was a good rundown of what happened.

GenX?