You’re not wrong; this is a tough one to comment sensibly on.
The crowd thing, it’s Utah; I would anticipate a crowd at an Utah university for something like this being full of homeschooled kids who haven’t broken away from parroting their parents’ views yet. Kirk is probably a hero in many of those households.
I was thinking the same thing about the angle. The tent would’ve theoretically meant the shooter would’ve had to be at a similar level/grade to make that shot.
I was only able to find censored versions of the video, but it sounds like he was hit in the neck. It will be a genuine miracle if he survives.
You know what’s sort of depressingly funny? The country would be better off if he were jailed for speech inciting violence. Not this.