“Carrying a loaded gun into a community 20 miles from your home and shooting unarmed citizens is fundamentally wrong.”

— Kyle Rittenhouse

Source: 19 November 2021 tweet https://twitter.com/GovPritzker/status/1461802665986465797 by Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker

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