I have no idea what those news videos you are referring to purport to show, but full raw footage or not, nobody should be trying to determine the kid’s guilt or innocence from that. That’s not for us to do. That’s for the legal system.

The media is reporting that a kid took his long gun across state lines to a riot. He sought out the harm’s way that he may have found himself in. So, yeah, let the courts very carefully consider every detail of the shooting itself and the factors that may have led to it. And consider them in any plea deal, verdict, and sentence.

But the larger implication for us as a society is this kid wasn’t guarding his home, his property, or anything. He chose to take a rifle and travel miles to a riot. You do that, it will escalate. And our honest assessments in favor of law and order should be to condemn that action every bit as much as the rioting. I don’t believe in playing the role of juror based on what I can glean from the media. I think the judicial system should do that. I do believe in condemning lawlessness where ever we find it. We do find it among rioters, but we find it to the same degree among armed vigilantes taking the law into their own hands.

Resulting in the only deaths so far in Kenosha, far as I know.