Posted on 07/04/2013 11:33:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
LOL!
At least the LIV’s are learning to write.
Re: to get back home with his Skittles & tea and watch basketball,
It was WATERMELON JUICE, not tea. Pathetic that the facts cannot even be presented because they are not PC.
He is being slagged in the comment section.
This article is just so stupid. This case has nothing to do with the stand your ground law. When someone is sitting on you and banging your head into the concrete, standing your ground isn’t a consideration.
> The problem is that Martin did not want to have an intellectual chin wag.
He just commenced to violence.
What was GZ supposed to do?
Take it?
Of course not. Trust me I’m not on Martin’s side at all. I’m just saying you had two guys that collided based on their personality profiles. GZ, a guy that was concerned with his neighborhood that wanted to stop the burglaries that had been occurring who probably should have just alerted the police and let them question Martin but instead decided to pursue and Martin a young black thug who was into Fight Club, like confrontation to prove his fighting skills / stroke his ego, and GZ just happened to piss him off by questioning why he was there which is a common response you get when you question criminals who are up to no good or have been upnyo no good in the past. What I think happened based on everything I’ve heard is that Martin (knowing he was being pursued by GZ) disappeared from GZ’s view for a second, and then snuck up on him, and laid the smackdown on him. I think Martin was a young and high thug that got angry at GZ for questioning why he was there and prejudice kicked in and he went Fight Club on him, Martin got the better of him, started smashing his skull into the pavement, and GZ pulled the gun and shot him. Of course GZ has the right to protect himself but the MSM doesnt want to focus on that because it would rather stir the racial pot for His Highness.
This guy is delusional.
Not that there's anything wrong with that!!
What you do in “da hood” doesn’t fly in the big world, we have a conflict of cultures.
I kept going, and got to the next paragraph where he claims this is a SYG case. Freakin idiot author, too bad he has no concept of facts.
...so far, the prosecution has done a fine job of establishing many of the facts, but a number of the prosecution’s witnesses have played into the hands of the defense. Some of the testimony has bolstered their claims that, at the moment of the shooting, it was the killer who felt his life was in danger, that regardless to what happened prior to the shooting, the killer thought he needed to kill in order to survive.
George Zimmerman was carrying a 9mm semi-automatic handgun.
If he was the crazed, racist murderer that the MSM and the liberal politicians are painting him as, wouldn’t he have squeezed off two or three more rounds to be sure he had finished the job?
He fired one round to make the brutal “Ground and Pound” battering stop.
When one is in such a helpless position, one must assume that the assault will continue until one loses consciousness or one’s life, depending on the viciousness of the attacker. George Zimmerman had no way of knowing the level of insanity of his attacker, so he must have assumed that if he lost consciousness, he would never wake up.
If George Zimmerman was a crazed, racist murderer he would have stood over Trayvon’s helpless body (he was probably not deceased yet), and pumped a couple of additional rounds to the head, to solidify his victory.
When this tragedy began, nobody had an intention of killing anyone, but the situation got out of control in a matter of seconds, tempers flared and a valuable young life was lost.
George Zimmerman will punish himself for his actions for the rest of his life, arguably much worse a sentence than he deserves.
I think you’re missing a point.
The presence of the gun more or less ensured somebody was going to get shot, since whoever had control of the gun during the struggle would know that if he lost that control it would probably mean his death.
IOW, the presence of a gun ensured that it was a life or death struggle, whereas without the gun there was “some” possibility it would not escalate to that extent.
Could one of them have killed the other with his hands? Sure, but a gun is just so much easier and more efficient a killing tool, which is of course why we carry them.
Ummm, aren't the SIX jurors? Someone's not 'listening' that closely...
“more efficient a killing tool, which is of course why we carry them.”
You suggest, then, that police officers who carry firearms are looking for an opportunity to kill someone. I don’t think that they would agree with you.
GZ was a volunteer “Neighborhood Watch” patrolman, who is not a very big guy. If he had encountered a really bad guy, maybe eight inches taller and seventy pounds heavier, are you suggesting he should confront him, unarmed, and try to hold him until the police show up? He carried a gun to maybe save his life…
I’m glad he had it.
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