Psssst. Guys. This sort of thing is gonna happen.
We advocate for the right of all to possess the means to defend themselves. Naturally, a small percentage of "all" are going to abuse that right.
The solution is to be ready for it, to have thought through on what position you are going to take.
Bear in mind we really don't know much about the event, so we don't really know whether Tyler abused the right.
Even if some of the information is true, it could be a much smaller abuse/offense than alleged. Consider that your wife gets into an argument, then a fight, then is being injured enough to need hospital treatment. Is it really all that unnatural to seize the beater and put a gun to their head. Or, fire a shot into the ground to snap everyone out of their rage and call a halt to the proceedings? Before you learned all the angles about armed self-defense from thoughtful authorities familiar with the law, would such actions, under stress, be totally outside your snap-decision making? If this was the scenario that played out, and I am not saying it was, I would suspect an untrained person who unconsciously relied in the stress of the moment on the only other source of "education" in our culture--TV and movies. Again, I am not saying any of this is what happened. I am literally only offering it as perspective to show that allegations are not facts. Don't forget, we've all seen some government try to twist simple open carry into brandishing. There is no reason to think government would not twist a misguided self-defense scenario into something it wasn't.
So, lets wait and see. Or, try to find out.
In the meantime, I think we play into the anti-gunners hands if we get defensive over allegations. Or, if we abandon Tyler before we hear the whole story. No sense in reacting, or feeling guilty or tainted just because our opponents gleefully convict someone before the facts are in. Its their premature conclusion, not ours.
For myself, I might only write, "If the facts turn out to fit the allegations, such actions are not condoned by open carriers. I find it interesting that some people have already concluded the allegations are true in all regards, before the investigation is complete and before anybody has heard from the arrestee. I wonder what is their agenda, with the understanding that having an agenda is still better than believing everything they hear."
