how is him being there to protect businesses- does he even have that ability? differ from going somewhere to protest, which is protected under 1a. One went out of state, meaning he travelled to put himself in that situation vs a guy that lives there and for all we know works right there (I haven't seen any back story). It was in direct relation to your point about not putting yourself in situations like that, rittenhouse went fully out of his way to put himself in a dangerous situation, while we have no idea what this guys intention was. Rittenhouse went to defend (as per you, which is a high risk situation) vs this guy protesting (was he even protesting? or just there at the wrong time), srs question as to what the actual facts are. Peaceful protest is not high risk by the definition.
Of course the context is different, it by definition could never be the same, temporally or spatially, but thats a given with any analogy or relativism, its not an argument against the use of this argument.
Did you review any context at all with respect to Rittenhouse?
He didn't drive somewhere randomly to do this. His friend, Dominic Black lived there, and stored the gun there. The travesty in this is that the police and the government were doing such a shitty job keeping the BLM riots under control, that a 17 year old kid had to feel like he was doing the right thing to go there.
So we know his intentions and why he "traveled across state lines".
All we know of the current situation is that he was there, with a loaded weapon, and didn't have ID. Have to see.
Either way, there's no comparison to Rittenhouse.
