Understand you're being trolled and their stance is to aggravate you.
Under every circumstance in human history someone like Kyle would be called a hero. Imagine a man who takes up arms to defend people he does not know. There are statues to
people like that all over the world. Someone who forsakes safety and treks to a dangerous place to defend people he never met from others coming with lit torches and murderous ideologies? They make up poems and songs about such people.
When you have a coddled child-like mind it's impossible to believe that a 17-year old could be called a man, but that's just a product of the pussification of America. I was out on my own at 16; I had adult choices to make and that was fine because at 16 I was an adult. But today a 17-year old is just chan-larping some video-game fantasy because it's inconceivable to assign so much agency to someone so much younger than yourself. I guess also braver. It's hard to be brave in today's society, because today society only rewards collective bravery, like from firefighters and inner-city teachers.
Kyle obviously didn't go there with the intent of shooting someone. It's obvious. He spend the vast majority of his time cleaning schools and peacefully hanging out, standing around with other people around various properties. It's documented in pictures and video. And he never ever displayed any aggressive attitude at all. He brought a gun because everyone was bringing a gun. Him, the people protecting the property, the rioters, the bystanders, cops, everyone was armed. I mean yeah some people weren't armed with guns. They had sticks and knives and skateboards. Explosives.
Every single person there assumed the risk of being in an armed riot. Every single one. They were all adults, and they all made the rational decision that they were going to be there armed. Whatever your agenda was, if you were within a quarter-mile of that place you were assuming an informed risk.
If you got shot because you were charging someone with a gun from behind, or hitting a gun owner on the head, or coming up to an armed person and assuming a shooting stance while pointing a handgun at them, and then your ass got shot that would be 100% on you. And that's the black and white of it. Three people got shot because they said to themselves, I am an adult and my informed decision is to attack this guy holding a rifle. Yup, sounds good, watch me go!
If Kyle didn't shoot these guys some other guy would have, and then he would be getting picked apart by cowards too. It's good to know that if my community was threatened some people I don't know would travel to protect me. I take comfort in that. I take comfort in living in a community that would welcome people like that. That's the best thing.