These things get complicated. Personally, I figure he was hoping to shoot someone and so I hope he gets the book thrown at him. But, that’s a personal opinion based primarily on media recountings during our ongoing culture wars.

At the end of the day, I don’t know what happened here, nor do I know Kyle or what was going through his mind during this. It’s entirely possible that, legally, he was in the right. It’s also possible that authorities will determine that, from his perspective, he was justified in what he did. On these, I can’t really speak, but while I personally feel he’s a murderer, I know if I were in his shoes I’d want a fair trial that gave a ruling based on established law and precedent.

That’s the problem with discussing cases like this, I know how I feel from the facts explained and my general sense of outrage that someone would drive to a riot and shoot people, but real life is always more complicated than we understand from the outset. It’s best to let the system run it’s course, and trust that the group looking into this is on the level.