Multiple things can be true here;
1. What McKenna did was dumb and stupid
2. 18 year olds can be dumb and stupid, often.
3. Drunk 18 year olds significatly lack impulse control
4. Sounds like he wasnt the instigator, but did instigate the violence.
A lot of people are able to see that while what he did was really dumb and he will probably regret it (and likely learn/grow from the mistake) we can still add the pieces together to understand the why, and the result really isn't all that surprising.
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