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Originally Posted by Malice_Mizer
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Have fun in an America where your heroes cowardly shoot people they're afraid of. Fist fighting a minor isn't even pathetic enough for you. You have to shoot the kid in the heart for it to be truly heroic enough for you.
"Oh, that dude across the street is scaring me. Yes, I am in fear for my life. Open season to kill people for whatever reason suits your fancy and claim that you were afraid!"
I'd love to see the Zimmerman standard be applied to a single person of color. For instance, a black woman in FL shot a warning shot against her ex-husband who just got out of prison for domestic abuse and kicked her fucking door down. She shot it into the ceiling, the judge dismissed her plea for "stand your ground," and she was sentenced to TWENTY YEARS for aggravated assault.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...stic-violence/
That's the pathetic thing about laws like this. It's totally up to individual discretion to even enforce it. "Hey, I like you or I identify with you in some way-- you don't deserve to be in prison!" But get a person like Rachel Jeantel on the stand, and suddenly the trial looks like she's being charged with a crime. This country's entire legal justice system is a total sham, and you're content because it's working in your favor. That's the definition of cowardice. |
1.) I don't expect anything said here to sway your opinion even the slightest because you are firmly entrenched in your beliefs. That said...
2.) The Marissa Alexander incident was picked up by the liberal blog/website/news orgs and plastered everywhere as an example of racism and the SYG law. Unfortunately, much of what REALLY happened was lost in translation and you really have to do some google digging to find out what actually took place.
Here's an article with a different version of the events:
http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2...e-led-shooting
And another:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/th...lexanders-reve
Of course you can question this, but I'd question your intelligence if you took the thinkprogress/huffpost versions at face value. Remember - Zimmerman was originally a white guy and in his 911 call said Trayvon was black without being asked.
3.) Self defense laws are pretty clear in most states, and to have a concealed weapon permit you are educated on what these laws are. You must be able to articulate that you were in fear of your life or great bodily harm.
In the Zimmerman case, the injuries on Zimmerman (and lack of injuries on Trayvon) and eyewitness testimony (another prosecution witness saying he saw Trayvon on top of Zimmerman 'MMA ground and pound style') give credence to this claim.
What so many anti-Zimmerman sheep seem to think is that it was entirely *impossible* for Trayvon to be a stupid teenage punk (all evidence points that he was) who assaulted Zimmerman because he was being followed (not against the law, not grounds for assault) and paid the price for the viciousness of his assault.
He probably wouldn't have been shot if he just punched Zimmerman once, but that's not how teens fight these days. (and if he had been shot over a single punch Zimmerman would have no case and would have gone to jail)
4.) People die all the time. Black on black crime is at an outrageous rate yet nobody wants to address that. Black kids are getting shot all the time in urban areas. Where's your outrage there? Where are the lynch mobs calling for riots?
5.) If you really want to kill someone, you don't need to play some self-defense game, you can just kill someone randomly and have a much higher chance of getting away with it. This whole "OMG people are going to go around shooting eachother all the time using the self defense ploy!!!" is a red herring and frankly has been proven to be untrue and a complete non-issue.
Also, see #4.
Lastly - please just think. Use your head. I know you've been brainwashed by your peers/media/JonStewart/whatever for years, but coming here spewing a bunch of /r/politics garbage from reddit isn't very becoming.