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That might be true, but it might not matter.That's unlikely to happen. Near as I can tell the prosecution has tied that to Rittenhouse being there to shoot someone. The actual text of the law in question is difficult to parse, but TL;DR the open carry of longarms (shotguns and rifles with a barrel over 16") is acceptable if one is 16 or up (IIRC).
It seems that their is an above average amount of people do not rely on sheer emotion to come to conclusions but a cold hard calculus on the farms. I am very similar to this and for me I usually operate on strict logical processes for my decisions as a way to not allow any degree of bias or emotion to influence my conclusion. I can read a criminal code statue and in about five minutes tell you what it means.
That is not the case with the vast majority of people on either side. For the left, we are already familiar with the LOLcows on this site. Addressing, right wing persons I see this when safe firearm storage laws are suggested. While I OPPOSE such a law, I was surprised at the ignorance when it is discussed by the gun community. The immediate retort is that Heller prohibits keeping a gun in an unusable state. and such the safe storage law proposed.
On that point they are correct. But the law they oppose allows for the guns to be kept unsecured if its in the persons immediate control or on their person. Hence, the law does not directly violate Heller and any legal challenge cannot be upheld on the stare decisis of Heller.
If you have not guessed already, even when its a topic I support (firearm rights), I do not let my emotions control my opinion. Its a cold hard calculus of the proposed legislation, idea, or ordinance. But, I realized about 25 years ago most people did not think like I did. Perhaps it is my lack of hubris, but I always thought that all those in college had a logical paradigm to guide their decisions. Given that I wanted to get my general education courses done early, I took a few community college classes in my junior and senior year. Once in the somewhat hallowed halls of higher education, I began a tireless logical autopsy of how top college students reached their conclusions.
It turns out to be just emotion and bias. Very few have internal bias checks as well as challenging their positions on a constant basis. I believe I was in my English 101 class during the summer session before my senior year in high school that I discussed with my professor about a selection of studies from high impact factor journals and a rough outline of an annotated bibliography as a base my final paper on. The professors stated that he had only seen such rigorous research in post secondary education. He went on to say that I was one of about five he had in about his seven years of teaching that had that degree of rigor.
I am right because of some superior intelligence, I am right because I always challenge myself in believing I am wrong.
P.S. Why YES, I am a libertarian.