I don’t know if the divide here is actually left or right. I think any reasonable person can see the complexities here. What seems to have a party divide is the interpretation of these complexities.

What really strikes me most about the whole matter is that we seemed to have tripped over some loophole - where if you’re feeling particularly predatory one night, and you hear about a riot breaking out, you can grab a gun and see what kind of trouble you can get yourself into. If you wait for the right conditions you could have some murderers wet-dream. This shouldn’t be allowed to stand.

It’s hard to determine if this is what Kyle was thinking, but it seems his intentions here would speak to the heart of the matter. I suppose, even with my typical liberal repulsion to someone carrying a gun and defending a store that’s towns over, I can understand that his actions could fall under self-defense, or that he came to this situation without an intention to cause harm.