"Kylewear" would probably make him rich.

They said we're not affiliated with him.

Basically that's all.

"We don't sponsor him nor are affiliated with him."

that is fair

They said nothing about what he did.

They just distanced themselves from the idea that he was endorsed by them.

The company was being threatened to loose all there financing and such.

@Zerb, you just advanced to level 1!

Here is a great video on the topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ekwVPZZHtI

Well they should distance themselves if they stand for law abiding safe gun ownership

Agreed.

What Kyle did was incredibly moronic, dangerous and illegal.... he should absolutely be punished. People are dead and he played at least some role in that happening...

That is not to say he needs to be convicted for murder or manslaughter or anything like that....

What Kyle did wasn't murder, but it was really, really dumb.

From all I have seen that was self defense

I would not stop at dumb... it was also reckless

I cover reckless with dumb.

Ah, gotcha

When it's not criminally reckless.

Well... after watching the first witness in the PH I was satisfied that he will not be convicted of anything except some sort of possession of a firearm statute. Which will likely be a misdemeanor and can be expunged from his record after a couple years

But we don't need to gloss over the fact that his stupidity played a role in people dying (of course the victims were also behaving in a very stupid manner as well)

It may be expunged immediately since the charge was before he was 18.

what is kinda annoying is that if not for all this press... I doubt he would get tried.

So it could just be hidden from the record as the trial finishes.

Possibly... some states make you wait until 21

But we don't need to be trying to prop him up as some 2nd Amendment hero like I have heard some right wing people do... This was a sad mess all the way around

For sure.

I don't call someone a hero that I don't want to act as a role model for my kids.

I don't want my kids doing that.

1) Could have gone far more badly. 2) I don't encourage people to confront violent mobs of people with a gun, knowing what a likely outcome will be.

Unfortunately, welcome to 2020. This is why sponsors are quick to pull ads from Hannity or Carlson because the alternative is entire demographic groups just not purchasing their products anymore

It's nothing personal, just business - as the saying goes

Well, this isn't even 2020. This phenomenon has been going on for some time

happened to Laura Ingraham and Bill O'Reilly, too

On the "hero" thing, I think that goes a little far. Kyle Rittenhouse isn't a "Hero," just a kid who was in the wrong place at the wrong time and put himself in the position to where he had to shoot to defend himself.

Kyle is a fucking hero with bigger balls than anyone here, prove me wrong.

Usually heroes save people.

No, what Rittenhouse did was to save his own skin. As I said above, that could have been me when I was 16-22 years old. I was a lifeguard, I enlisted in the USMC (got chewed up and spit out), and I was a law enforcement officer. Rittenhouse was too young, and unskilled at situations like that to recognize the need for numbers and someone watching his back even while helping others. He found himself in that situation and the idiots were drawn to him by his being alone. I will say that his fight, flight, or fright instincts were spot on, and he was able to save his own ass luckily. But that doesn't mean that he was a hero. Saving your own life from a situation you shouldn't have been in isn't a heroic deed.

agreed, AntiFish

he's no more of a hero than I would be if I had to shoot to kill to defend myself

it's not heroism. it's self-preservation