How is this confusing? Rittenhouse brought a gun to defensively protect himself while guarding businesses from looting, burning citizens during a violent protest. It would reasonably follow that preventing rioters from ransacking a business could bring you into life-threatening conflict with them. Pretti brought a gun for no clear reason but we can assume: 1.) To physically stop ICE agents from detaining illegals 2.) To protect himself against ICE agents (meaning he was planning shoot federal LEOs) 3.) To protect himself against counter-protestors.
I agree with a lot of migger hate but you have to be retarded to be 1:1 comparing Rittenhouse and Pretti. It's defensive versus offensive intentions with consideration to the law. Yeah, he can show up with a gun and magazines, but in no case as an anti-ICE protestor could Pretti legally use his weapon unless a counter-protestor attacked him - were any counter-protesters there that reasonably wouldve attacked him? You can't anticipate conflict with federal agents and intend to use your gun as self-defense, thats fucking insane and not legal or reasonable.
See, I agree with you that there isn't a 1:1 between Pretti and Rittenhouse. There are differences between the reasons the two were at their respective places as well as what they were doing prior to SHTF.
However, despite that, the assumption that he brought the gun to interfere with ICE appears to be baseless, given that we don't even see him trying to pull the gun when being pushed backwards by the ICE guy. From all the vids shared thus far, we don't see him reach for the gun. So him bringing it to physically stop ICE from detaining illegals doesn't seem likely.
As for buying it to protect himself from ICE agents or counterprotesters...as per 2A, Pretti had every right and then some to do so, if he felt his life were in danger. The EFFECTIVENESS of the gun is arguable; but if there was sufficient danger to self, Pretti could've used it and been in the right to do so. If he were to survive such a situation, he would have to argue his case before the court ala Rittenhouse. However, given all the shit that we have seen of govt officers (not just right now, but even before, during Biden's term) crossing their lines, arguments do exist on lethal action for protection against those crossing that line. To argue that one can't anticipate conflict with feds and intend self-defense in such a situation is so counter to both 2A and the 1776-principles of the US....I would suggest self-deportation to the original feds of England. They seem to subscribe to that sorta rule much more than the US should.
Rittenhouse crossed state borders while underage with a gun that is “not a handgun” to rabble rouse at a random protest. He should be happy that he shot at a pedo. This guy was at least in his state with a gun he is allowed to carry…
Ehhh...I'm not gonna lie, the whole "crossed state lines" is pretty BS given that he lived on the boundary of his state, and where he was was barely half an hour away; he had family and a part-time job there, IIRC. So "crossing state borders" always sounds like a cop out to me. I'm also unsure whether I'd count what Kyle was doing as "rabble-rousing", given he was trying to protect a business and put out fires started by other protestors.