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I'm anti-Zimmerman because he should never have been in that situation. He was the instigator. He was in his car when he called 911 to report a suspicious black guy. How'd he end up on the sidewalk with him?
I have no problem with Stand Your Ground when properly used.
The case of Zimmerman and that one recently ruled on in Texas, I feel, are not properly used.
I'm not liberal, but clearly agree with my liberal listmates on this issue. You don't have to be conservative or liberal to know morally that something is just not right. SYG has its place except for those who instigate situations allowing them to use the law to murder someone. SYG should be reformed to hold people like the guy in Texas and Zimmerman accountable. I hope that it is.
I'm sure somewhere in there the American captain said. "Don't fire until fired upon, but if they come up and hit you in the nose, go ahead and shoot them."
I can't think of anything MORE American than the SYG laws...
I don't care if Zimmerman called him 20 different racial slurs while stalking him down the street, if Martin was begging for his life and they found a 20 page murder plot on killing the next black kid walking through the neighborhood...
I'm sure somewhere in there the American captain said. "Don't fire until fired upon, but if they come up and hit you in the nose, go ahead and shoot them."
What if you come up to them and they hit you ? do you still have the right to kill them ?
Using the Revolutionary war as a metaphor for the Trayvon Martin shooting?
That's actually an interesting comparison.
One side wanting to be left alone, the other side insisting on having the authority to interfere.
One side being poorly armed, the other arriving backed with state of the art weaponry.
You can make the case that there are parallels, certainly.
It's just that in doing so, Zimmerman has to take on the role of the redcoats.
I have no issue with the SYG law, especially when it comes to protecting yourself. However, I think there is a problem when you start a conflict and then when you come out on the losing side decide you need to stand your ground.
For lack of better example: that's like kicking a dog and then shooting it because it bit your leg.
George Zimmerman is a hero. He was forced to shoot a hoodlum who elected to confront him as some street gangster. Mr. Martin was the instrument of his own demise.
We desperately need good people like George Z who make every effort to protect their family and neighbors. Otherwise we might as well allow the druggies and thugs to enter our homes, rape our daughters, steal our possessions, and murder us in the process.
I only reason George Z was arrested was out of the fear that blacks would once again riot as they did in the Rodney King case killing innocent people, burning businesses, and most of all using this as an excuse to loot.
The real travesty here is that an innocent man, Mr. Zimmerman, is in jail in the hope to keep a disorderly group of thugs from trashing their cities.
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Using the Revolutionary war as a metaphor for the Trayvon Martin shooting?
