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I am not Trayvon Martin' post goes viral

The "I am not Trayvon Martin" Facebook post by a Lamar, Colo., user has become a rallying cry for those who are upset with the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial but don't identify personally with Martin.

"Seay said he wrote the post to protest Stand Your Ground laws, which he said make it too easy to kill people in the U.S."

Beautiful. Now you Anti Zimmerman people can have a common cause.

If you guys got together and approached J.B., maybe he'll set up an "Anti 2A" forum just for you.
 

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Yep, Zmans trial has nothing to do with 2a rights.

trial had nothing to do with 2A rights .. but all the MASSIVE protest on results of trial could .. personally see nothing wrong with expecting a CCW packing heat to avoid certain situations. that CCW holders cannot pack heat into a list of places has same effect on 2A rights as expecting CCW to avoid certain situations.

a CCW holder packing heat should not be following an unknown person down a dark path that he suspect is burglarizing homes. it's not exactly a secret, thugs that commit home invasions can be violent.

@@@ A CCW holder that initiates a confrontation that ends up violent .. ends up shooting suspected thug (17 yr kid doing nothing wrong), then claims he was in fear for his life to justify shooting.@@@

not everyone had time to sit through entire trial .... and think above statement encapsulates what happened.
 

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Martin escalated the event to a lethal level when he started banging Zimmerman's head on the concrete.

That's the same as if you're talking to someone and they pull a gun; they've threatened you with lethal force and you can respond in kind.

Zimmerman might have shown poor judgment, but he didn't raise the encounter to a lethal level.
 

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Martin escalated the event to a lethal level when he started banging Zimmerman's head on the concrete.

That's the same as if you're talking to someone and they pull a gun; they've threatened you with lethal force and you can respond in kind.

Zimmerman might have shown poor judgment, but he didn't raise the encounter to a lethal level.

maybe, maybe not ... but without question Zimmerman placed himself into situation that turned violent. knowing he was packing heat and could shoot suspected thug if he was in fear for his life.

a CCW holder packing heat should not be following an unknown person down a dark path that he suspect is burglarizing homes. it's not exactly a secret, thugs that commit home invasions can be violent.
 

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that is total bull manure!!! Zimmerman did all sorts of things wrong. like continue to follow Martin after 911 dispatch advised him not to. don't think anyone disputes Z was at least partially responsible for what happened.

Z never should have been charged with murder 2 .. state prosecutor set bar to prove guilt so high it was not possible to convict. which is reason a not guilty verdict was correct. NOT because Z did nothing wrong.

this is a good part of why a LOT of folks are PISSED! prosecutors should be fired for pursuing wrong charges. this case was designed to lose from the get go....

have never thought what Z did justified spending 30 years in jail ... but walking with NO penalty for killing someone is not right either. without question Z initiated chain of events that ended up with M getting shot.

Your "facts" are incorrect.

Zimmerman was not talking to 911 dispatch. He had called the non-emergency number.

There is no evidence that Zimmerman continued to follow after being told that it wasn't necessary (mind you he wasn't told not to do it, just that he didn't need to).

When Zimmerman hung up with the dispatcher after telling said dispatcher he would meet the police by his truck, Martin was closer to his home than to the spot where he was seen attacking Zimmerman.

Zimmerman's wounds and the dispatch recording all corroborate Zimmerman's story.
 

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On a side note. Here is another case. I know about it, because it was all over a couple of the CC groups and other gun groups. This thing does happen. You can decide why the media did not choose to be all over this case, or why Obama never spoke out about it.
I am sure you can find more on the web. I just posted the first link I found on it.
http://radioviceonline.com/media-ro...slaugter-self-defense-shooting-chris-cervini/
 

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On a side note. Here is another case. I know about it, because it was all over a couple of the CC groups and other gun groups. This thing does happen. You can decide why the media did not choose to be all over this case, or why Obama never spoke out about it.
I am sure you can find more on the web. I just posted the first link I found on it.
http://radioviceonline.com/media-ro...slaugter-self-defense-shooting-chris-cervini/

It's because Faux News, CNN, and BSNBC haven't had a monetary reason to sensationalize it to the sheeple, pitting half the country against the other half.
 

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On a side note. Here is another case. I know about it, because it was all over a couple of the CC groups and other gun groups. This thing does happen. You can decide why the media did not choose to be all over this case, or why Obama never spoke out about it.
I am sure you can find more on the web. I just posted the first link I found on it.
http://radioviceonline.com/media-ro...slaugter-self-defense-shooting-chris-cervini/

This is plenty weird. What are we trying to prove with stories like this? Well, we're trying to prove that an ******* vigilante killed an unarmed teenager in New York, but the shooter and the shootee were of the same race so Holder did nothing about it.

I'm not sure that's what we want to prove. Its not that funny, but there are dozens of cases in the state of Florida that are something like this.
My own favorite is the one where two guys have a disagreement on a basketball court. One guy goes home, gets his gun, comes back and provokes a confrontation and winds up killing the other guy. He got off because he feared for his life.

So what are we trying to prove with these stories? Is it racially motivated government over-reach, or is it something about vigilante over-reach?

I don't think we want to go poking around in the Florida papers because there are all sorts of people abusing their second amendment rights down there.
 
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