Fom my perspective, you don't really get to claim self-defense when you pick up a rifle, drive across a couple of state lines, and then place yourself into a situation where you're suddenly "forced" to defend yourself.

Look, if you've had any kind of firearms training, you know that pulling or brandishing a weapon escalates the danger of the situation by about 10,000%.

Kyle took a rifle into an already tense situation. And you know as well as I do that when events escalated beyond his ability to manage them this scared kid ending up shooting someone becaue he'd backed himself into a corner and didn't know what else to do.

And then ended up doing so two more times when he tried to "flee" and onlookers chased him down and tried to apprehend him. (The video showing the chase occurred after the first shot was fired.)

All of which is why we don't need teenage vigilantes (or vigilantes of any age, for that mater), whose sole training consists of first-person shooter video games trying to "help"... and only making matters worse.

The kid's bad judegment destroyed several lives. Including his own.