What I think people are missing is this:
In recent years, there have been reports of individuals who were deemed "far right" being literally chased out of a town or city by an angry mob. Granted, maybe some of these people were in fact extremists, but their right to be in a public space while making political speech/expression should not have been contingent on their political ideology, no matter how personally distasteful to a majority or vocal minority of the population.
When these people were were "chased out of town", the media took a celebratory stance, gloating that they got their comeuppance at the hands of supposedly brave civic activists and relishing in their supposed cowardice for not standing their ground when vastly, vastly outnumbered.
This is a kind of extreme heckler's veto: shutting down people's natural rights in certain contexts through violence or implied threat of violence. And the left has not disavowed this practice so long as those being chased were on the right.
The left-leaning residents of Kenosha saw that Kyle Rittenhouse, whatever his origin or home address, disagreed with them. They fell back on an old familiar tactic but this once it backfired spectacularly.
I hope that an acquittal for homicide charges will serve to discipline and correct the American left by reminding them that denying the natural rights of disliked individuals through violence has consequences. Namely, if the police will not protect them, they might protect themselves by gunning down said mob. And under these limited circumstances (self-defense), them opening fire on other people demonstrably won't ruin their lives, meaning they'll be bold enough to disperse or deter an angry mob/assailant through force. Lethal force if necessary.
In other words, violence is a two-way street and poses no real advantage to any side, as anything you do to them today can be done to you tomorrow. To avoid it, you must respect that people you disagree with have and fully deserve the right to occupy the same public space as you.
Similarly, I hope that hardcore conservatives don't take any bad lessons from this. Rittenhouse is not to be emulated, for the simple reason that his circumstances must not be deliberately recreated.
