A kid with barely any training fired fairly quickly at night into a crowd and 1) missed a black dude because the black dude's pants fell down and tripped him, 2) shot a serial domestic abuser in the heart, 3) shot a kiddie diddler in the junk, 4) disarmed a convicted armed robber. God had to have commanded Michael to steady his hands.
I don't agree with the statement "fired into a crowd" though.
Kyle showed restraint at an extremely high level, only fired when he needed to and limited his fire to single, aimed shots.
That's better than 99.9999% of US cops manage in situations only a fraction as tense, where they routinely magdump.
He also cleared a malfunction in the middle of all this.
I agree with his aim, but he was firing 5.56/.223, and there were people behind the people he was aiming at. It's nigh miraculous that he didn't overpen and hit someone behind his targets.
Seriously - it's unreal to imagine what the media would have been able to accomplish (with regards to convicting him, and with regards to doing even more damage to the fabric of our society) if any of the people he defended himself against ended up being non-white males.
Guy could have shot a hundred attackers, and if even one of them had been black, the whole story would have been how this racist kid went out there to gun down blacks.
Truly God was guiding Kyle's aim that night. If the black guy had got so much as a slight burn from the muzzle blast he'd been fucked.
A kid with barely any training fired fairly quickly at night into a crowd and 1) missed a black dude because the black dude's pants fell down and tripped him, 2) shot a serial domestic abuser in the heart, 3) shot a kiddie diddler in the junk, 4) disarmed a convicted armed robber. God had to have commanded Michael to steady his hands.
I don't agree with the statement "fired into a crowd" though. Kyle showed restraint at an extremely high level, only fired when he needed to and limited his fire to single, aimed shots. That's better than 99.9999% of US cops manage in situations only a fraction as tense, where they routinely magdump.
He also cleared a malfunction in the middle of all this.
I agree with his aim, but he was firing 5.56/.223, and there were people behind the people he was aiming at. It's nigh miraculous that he didn't overpen and hit someone behind his targets.
Seriously - it's unreal to imagine what the media would have been able to accomplish (with regards to convicting him, and with regards to doing even more damage to the fabric of our society) if any of the people he defended himself against ended up being non-white males.
Guy could have shot a hundred attackers, and if even one of them had been black, the whole story would have been how this racist kid went out there to gun down blacks.