Unwitting Second Amendment hero and conservative influencer, Kyle Rittenhouse, has revealed he will not be voting for former President Donald Trump in the general election this November. Instead, he’ll be crumpling up his ballot and tossing it in the garbage by writing in former congressman Ron Paul as a presidential candidate. The reason why? Because he believes that Trump is “bad” at protecting the gun rights of American citizens. Rittenhouse must believe that Vice President Kamala Harris will do a much, much better job at protecting constitutional rights since anything other than a vote for Trump results in a vote for her far-left administration.
Rittenhouse rose to prominence when he was put on trial for shooting two men, fatally, while racial unrest rocked Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020. The violence of the time was stoked by radical left-wing media propaganda along with a liberal hatred for gun rights that wanted to make Rittenhouse out to be a violent racist who wanted to hurt black people. This wasn’t the case and the young man was cleared of the charges and the incident labeled self-defense. Which it was.
Here’s more on this from the BBC:
Instead of Trump, he plans to write in former Libertarian presidential nominee Ron Paul on the ballot. Trump has repeatedly vowed to protect Americans’ right to own guns and to roll back Biden-era restrictions on firearms. Mr Rittenhouse – who became a cause célèbre among some US conservatives during his trial – met Trump just a week after being cleared of charges in November 2021, with the president calling him a “fan”.
In an online post early on Friday, Mr Rittenhouse – now outreach director for the group Texas Gun Rights – said that “unfortunately, Donald Trump has bad advisers, making him bad on the Second Amendment”, which protects gun ownership in the US.
“If you cannot be completely un-compromisable on the Second Amendment, I will not vote for you,” he commented on X. “We need champions for the Second Amendment or our rights would be eaten away and eroded each day. I support my decision and I have no takebacks.”
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Not long after the initial post, Rittenhouse shared one from the leader of the National Association for Gun Rights, which highlighted the organization’s criticism of Trump on support for the Second Amendment.
It cites his support while president for raising the minimum age for gun purchases and openness to expanded background checks. Trump quickly backed away from those ideas at the time. The list also included Trump’s 2018 ban on bump stocks, an accessory that allows semi-automatic rifles to fire hundreds of bullets per minute, similar to a machine gun. The Supreme Court overturned the prohibition two months ago. Mr Rittenhouse’s video drew the ire of some Trump supporters, some of whom responded with expletive-laden tirades.
“The left hates you and now Maga will shun you,” one user said in response to the video.
Anti-Trump group, the Lincoln Project, said, “When you’ve lost Kyle Rittenhouse…Trump campaign is in trouble.” However, Trump has made it clear that he is dedicated to protecting the rights of American citizens to own firearms if he should win the presidency this fall.
While participating in a National Rifle Association meeting from last February, he told attendees, “every single Biden attack on gun owners and manufacturers will be terminated on my very first week back in office.”
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