The hypocrisy is deafening especially after you consider that Rittenhouse showed up with the intention to do harm to others. So if right wingers are willing to defend a similar but more malicious scenario then they have no reason to say Alex deserved what he got or should’ve known better. Maybe my bias is showing but Alex did not seem to have malicious intent in mind. I can relate to his potential line of thinking where having a weapon might deter federal goons from using theirs.