There's a huge Silent Majority of us who agree with Zimmerman's Jury.
We're out here acting like adults, because the vociferous other side of "marchers" aren't.
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Posted on 07/16/2013 10:16:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
His death wasn’t about race, guns, or your pet issue. It was about misjudgment and overreaction—exactly what we’re doing now to the verdict.
Trayvon Martin is dead, George Zimmerman has been acquitted, and millions of people are outraged. Some politicians are demanding a second prosecution of Zimmerman, this time for hate crimes. Others are blaming the tragedy on “Stand Your Ground” laws, which they insist must be repealed. Many who saw the case as proof of racism in the criminal justice system see the verdict as further confirmation. Everywhere you look, people feel vindicated in their bitter assumptions. They want action.
But that’s how Martin ended up dead. It’s how Zimmerman ended up with a bulletproof vest he might have to wear for the rest of his life. It’s how activists and the media embarrassed themselves with bogus reports. The problem at the core of this case wasn’t race or guns. The problem was assumption, misperception, and overreaction. And that cycle hasn’t ended with the verdict. It has escalated.
I almost joined the frenzy. Yesterday I was going to write that Zimmerman pursued Martin against police instructions and illustrated the perils of racial profiling. But I hadn’t followed the case in detail. So I sat down and watched the closing arguments: nearly seven hours of video in which the prosecution and defense went point by point through the evidence as it had been hashed out at the trial. Based on what I learned from the videos, I did some further reading.
It turned out I had been wrong about many things. The initial portrait of Zimmerman as a racist wasn’t just exaggerated. It was completely unsubstantiated.....
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Probably not as long as there’s still $$$ to be had.
Maybe we should have rioted when OJ went free.
Mr. Saletan is on the right track in general, but he needs to do some more reading.
Overreaction. TM was apparently willing to kill or at least maim badly, in order to get this man and punish him or prove TM’s fighting prowess, or SOMETHING. And that’s an overreaction? hmmm.
Even the NAACP is walking back their canonization of TM.
If i had some one Any one slamming my head into the the concrete and causing me harm and i had a gun in my pocket with the chance to use it to get them off me i would most certainly do it color has nothing to do with it the scars being planted on the back of my head has most certainly everything to do with it !
The over reaction was martins to control and he failed to do so if a person don’t have common sense enough to see that then they deserve what is heaped upon them !
misjudgment and overreaction
One thing is clear, if Trayvon Martin (TM) was pounding George Zimmerman’s (GZ) head on the concrete and he, GZ, was about to lose consciousness, it was prudent that he had a round chambered. If he had lost consciousness, TM could have continued slamming his head on the concrete causing possible severe brain damage or death, or TM could have retrieved the gun and shot GZ.
Sometimes you wonder about the balance of safety (carrying with no round chambered) versus expediency (having one ready). GZ made the right call in this. With your back on the ground and an assailant wailing away on you - you don’t want to count on having a free hand to rack the gun. Word up.
The article starts off reasonable enough, but the author predictable blames Zimmerman.
And then gone on to shoot other people. This never gets brought up.
Also "unarmed teenager".
They’re scared. They’ve finally unjustly rubbed Whitey’s nose in it one time too many...their favored weapon (false accusations of racism) has lost it’s effect. Ted Nugent and others have hit them right between the eyes with the one thing they can’t handle: Truth. And the truth is, Trayvon Martin was the racist in this affair, as were his supporters in DC and elsewhere. Everybody knows it now.
No they’re not. ONE guy from the Virgina chapter said something about TM”s shaky past but he was lashed out at by other blacks.
The media is causing all these incidents around the country. How is it that Florida was cool for two days and nobody was protesting or doing shenanigans but now today stuff is happening? MSM is bile.
The race hustlers will keep pushing this, but I think they have overplayed their hand and this will backfire with the majority of the country.
How long are that going to agonize over this “race relations” thing? If they keep their whup-ass, I’ll keep my bullets. It ain’t that hard.
“They’re scared. They’ve finally unjustly rubbed Whitey’s nose in it one time too many...their favored weapon (false accusations of racism) has lost it’s effect. Ted Nugent and others have hit them right between the eyes with the one thing they can’t handle: Truth. And the truth is, Trayvon Martin was the racist in this affair, as were his supporters in DC and elsewhere. Everybody knows it now.”
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The leftist scum are never scared. I will say though that a lot of white men who sat out the last election are probably gonna hand many Dems their walking papers. This race hustling doesn’t ever wind up well for the Dems outside of wacko guilty white libtard areas.
This idea that whitey or a non-black should not be able to defend themselves against a violent attack is absurd and outside of LA and NYC most Americans know this.
The media and the druggy perverts in our entertainment industry are overplaying their hand with this case.
GZ was defending himself against a violent attack and these bastard leftwing elitists who live nowhere near thugs, but in their big gated rich communities with armed body guards can go straight to hell with their “outrage.”
How Clintonesque of the author. GZ wasn't thoroughly restrained because he was able to reach for and use his firearm.
And I suppose it was an overreaction because GZ should have just hit him back or used a crowbar or something to make it a fair fight.
And if I were St. Martin and was really more interested in getting home safely rather than in teaching some creepy-ass cracker a less, I suppose I would have gone straight home rather than provoking a confrontation.
So, no, they won't give it up anytime soon.
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