QueBert
Lifer
- Jan 6, 2002
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You're honestly bragging about living in a state where law-abiding citizens have to lock themselves inside to protect themselves from thugs, where people are expected to take a beating like good little victims, where it's every man or woman for herself and if you can't outfight someone you deserve to be a victim? How on Earth is that desirable?
What about Trayvon - is he allowed to walk the streets? Should he be forced to stay indoors, or run home if he sees someone threatening? Why is he allowed to roam the neighborhood but Zimmerman has to lock himself up for his own safety?
Nobody has to lock themselves inside to protect themselves from thugs, I'm not sure where you got that idea from. We don't have thugs out here, we have gang members. And they universally tend to leave regular people the hell alone. They don't have time to go after me, they're getting into beef with members of rival gangs. I believe in the right to defend yourself, if George had been sitting in his truck minding his own business, and Martin had drug him out and started to beat him for no reason. Him shooting would have made sense.
As it stands Georgie called the police reporting a person he felt was dangerous, and despite the advice of the person on the phone who knows a lot more about situations like this then him. He decided to get out and go after this supposed criminal who he was clearly wary of. At that point he's not an innocent person sitting in his car. He's the kid who see's the dog he knows might bite him and decides he's still going to poke him with a stick. I don't care what he says, or what the evidence shows. He wasn't just walking around when he got attacked. He provoked a person and was getting what he deserved, But luckily for him the person wasn't thug enough to finish the job.