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robbie_davies
Joined: 16 Jun 2013
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 Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 3:38 pm Post subject: Re: Stand Your Ground Laws - Zimmerman |
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| hellofaniceguy wrote: |
[quote=I don't have too much of a problem with him shooting just because he was afraid that a 17-year-old was going to take his life. That's fine with me. But once you kill the teenager, you go to jail. Most people would consider it fair, including black people. If you kill someone because you made a mistake, then you must pay for your mistake.
If you are too scared of young, black teenagers then don't follow them. How would YOU feel about a Korean man following you home here in Korea and killing you with a knife because you started a fight with him? And he gets acquitted b/c he claims self-defense. I'm sure that's not going to be an issue, right? |
I am on no ones side....just my opinion.
Zimmer had no idea how old this guy was...you keep making reference to his young age...
What...just because a kid under 18 is killed...one should go to jail?!?!
Shiiitttt! Prisons are full of those under 18 for murder!!!!
Pay for one's mistake...yes....in due course....if you are convicted...pay the price.
All of this is subjected impressions....
until it is YOU in the same situation...you can't judge others....
Don't always believe everything that you....think.
It has been proven that Trayvon threw the first punch....
killing him has nothing to do with being a P@%%y....
The idea of war is not to die for your country...it's to make YOU die for YOUR country...
get in a fist fight, gun fight, whatever fight...I am going to do my very best to take that person out as quickly as I can...if that means breaking their arm/leg...I am going to do it...because I know that the person I am fighting is going to try and do the same to me!
Age has nothing to do with a fight! You have punk azz 14/15/16/17 year olds talking smack all the time about "I'm gonna, I fittin' to kick your azz...blah blah...and many even pull a gun!
So yeah..I get jammed up by someone....I have no idea if he has a gun/knife
and is gonna use it on me! So...take them out quickly! Control the situation.[/quote]
Zimmerman could have stayed in his car like he was advised to and left it to the people who pays taxes to deal with the situation.
Secondly - why is an armed man getting beaten up? Would you let yourself get beaten up if you were armed with a gun? |
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transmogrifier
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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Obviously I cannot speak to the legal aspect of it, not being American, but there is something....off, I guess with someone profiling a young man as a thief and following him despite police calls not to, which eventually leads the young man in question to attack, at which point you can then shoot him dead. That's a morally icky situation.
Now, obviously, the kid didn't need to use violence, and he is just as much to blame as Zimmerman, if not more so....eh, I don't know. A shitty situation all round. |
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