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View Poll Results: Repeal "Stand your Ground" laws?
Yes 64 32.16%
No 135 67.84%
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Old 07-14-2013, 12:32 PM
 
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Let me get this straight - someone can follow me because I "look" like a threat but I can't do anything about that even if *I* feel threatened by being followed??

That's as ****ed up logic as I've ever seen.
I don't know what else to say but that's what we call civilized society not your gangster world.

When someone follows you for whatever reason, you are free to call police but until there's a threat of force, you cannot use force against your follower and hope to get away.
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Old 07-14-2013, 12:34 PM
 
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Which of his family and belongings was Zimmerman protecting in the commission of Martin's death?

Zimmerman's own life.
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Old 07-14-2013, 12:36 PM
 
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Did he really come back or did Zimmerman continue to pursue him? Only a dead man and his killer knows the truth.
Yet you continue to speculate.

It is entirely possible that Trayvon had a accomplice. You know what, the accomplice fired on Zimmerman and hit Trayvon instead.

Prove me wrong if you can. :-)
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Old 07-14-2013, 12:37 PM
 
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I don't know what else to say but that's what we call civilized society not your gangster world.

When someone follows you for whatever reason, you are free to call police but until there's a threat of force, you cannot use force against your follower and hope to get away.

LMAO!!! Me? A gangster. LOL Thanks for the fodder for our picnic tonight. Too funny.

I like how someone can follow me and shoot me because I look like a threat but I can't defend myself against their perceived threat. Amazing.
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Old 07-14-2013, 12:38 PM
 
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Zimmerman's own life.

How did Martin put Zimmerman's life in danger?
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Old 07-14-2013, 12:39 PM
 
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LMAO!!! Me? A gangster. LOL Thanks for the fodder for our picnic tonight. Too funny.

I like how someone can follow me and shoot me because I look like a threat but I can't defend myself against their perceived threat. Amazing.
Being followed is NOT a reasonable threat, nor an imminent threat to grave bodily harm or death.

No, you absolutely cannot use force against your follower without being convicted assault or second degree murder. Only in gangster world, that's an acceptable behavior.
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Old 07-14-2013, 12:39 PM
 
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If you don't know, then I can't help you.
I think you are the one who needs help!
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Old 07-14-2013, 12:40 PM
 
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How did Martin put Zimmerman's life in danger?
By hammering his head on the concrete.

Watch the video in Post 5.
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Old 07-14-2013, 12:44 PM
 
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Being followed is NOT a reasonable threat, nor an imminent threat to grave bodily harm or death.

No, you absolutely cannot use force against your follower without being convicted assault or second degree murder. Only in gangster world, that's an acceptable behavior.

As a woman, if a strange man is following me, block after block, that IS a reasonable threat. I would call the police and I would turn around and ask him exactly why he was following me. THAT is reasonable. I'm not saying being followed is a reason to kill, but it is a reasonable perceived threat.
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Old 07-14-2013, 12:45 PM
 
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I think you are the one who needs help!

Because you can't understand why I would bring up the Martin/Zimmerman case in a thread about SYG laws, I need help. LOL Ok.
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