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Heavier caliber and better shot placement would have righted THAT wrong!
“the Zimmerman narrative of reckless gun use”
WTF are these people talking about!
I am so sick of this kind of crap. Since when did it become “reckless” to use a gun to save yourself from some out of control jackass.
If George Zimmerman had been a woman of equal height and stature, would we be even talking about this case?
What is not mentioned is something liberals NEVER get: “deterrence”. Something that cannot be measured, but which can be inferred, is how many times violent crimes were averted due to the possibility of the victims being able to employ firearms.
On a similar vein, today there was a story about an attempted robbery of a gun store by a man wielding a baseball bat and a knife. You certainly don’t see that sort of thing very often.
This whole controversy concerning the “guilt” of George Zimmerman is based on the malicious and perverted reasoning from the premise that Zimmerman was stalking Trayvon Martin, when the testimony and later statements of the witnesses and other interested parties indicate that it was Martin stalking Zimmerman.
George Zimmerman stands charged with “self defense”. Even in the most tortured sort of political correctness, this is not a criminal act, in and of itself. In the context of the situation as it has been reconstructed through testimony and verified through examination of the circumstantial evidence, the use of deadly force to stop the attack, in the heat of the moment, was entirely justified. That the deadly force was just that, deadly, in no way negates the immediacy of the judgment call to stop the assault.
Trayvon Martin was, in the vernacular of certain of those persons who choose to pontificate upon the matter, “acting stupidly”.
And stupidity can get you killed. The Universe is an unforgiving and relentless taskmaster, dispensing judgments that may seem callous or excessive, but the delicate balance is swiftly restored.
The only real aberration is the extent to which some corrupt government officials decided to drag George Zimmerman over the coals for a clearer-than-average case of self-defense.
The events surrounding the Trayvon Martin shooting in the real world were pretty much typical of defensive gun use: someone attacks a person with a gun in a fashion which is clearly intended to create in that person a fear of death or severe bodily harm, and that person prevents such harm by incapacitating the attacker. Further, the events surrounding the shooting in leftist fantasyland were pretty much typical of leftist-fantasyland "defensive" gun uses. To be sure, the events surrounding the shooting in leftist fantasyland aren't typical of defensive gun uses that happen in the real world, but such discrepancy is hardly an aberration.
I wish George Zimmerman's supporters would focus on the fact that tangible physical evidence clearly shows that for at least 45 seconds Trayvon Martin was deliberately preventing Mr. Zimmerman from retreating to safety and was attacking Mr. Zimmerman in a fashion which would clearly be felonious if performed on a non-consenting target that was simply trying to disengage. The evidence further makes clear that during those 45 seconds Trayvon Martin could not plausibly have believed that Mr. Zimmerman was consenting to the attack nor do anything but disengage.
Those facts surrounding that 45 seconds, in and of themselves, would be sufficient to prove the shooting justified almost regardless of anything that could even theoretically have occurred before then. If GZ had engaged in a pattern of persistent harassment that eventually caused TM to snap, that might undermine the legitimacy of his self-defense claim, but other evidence makes clear that there's no way GZ would have had enough time to harass TM sufficiently to justify TM's behavior.