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In reply to the discussion: Yup, it's officially a moral panic: [View all]beevul
(12,194 posts)90. Thats your opinion.
Zimmerman was looking for an excuse to use his gun.
Thats your opinion, which is completely unsupported by so much as a single fact.
Think about that for a minute (I know, you wont).
He was told by the authorities to back away and let the police handle it.
Nothing like the smell of equivocation in the morning. The dispatcher whom Zimmerman was on the phone with, had no authority to tell Zimmerman anything one way or another.
But he was so excited at the opportunity to be the protector that he "prematurely fired" his weapon.
Multiple eyewitness accounts place zimmerman at the bottm of a skirmish getting his head pounded into pavement or concrete before he fired the gun - how much longer should he have waited?
You're just here trying to win an unwinnable argument, and throwing everything against the wall that you can find within hands reach, vainly hoping something will stick. We've all seen this before, and we've all heard your oft repeated talking points before. You aren't coming up with anything new, or even novel.
We're keeping our guns, and our rights.
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"I bet the percentage is actually quite miniscule." It is - see post #5
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2016
#6
And no good is done by attemting to discuss murder in context of small sub-groups
guillaumeb
Aug 2016
#19
This context-free burbling re. '30,000 dead' is a good example of why you're failing.
pablo_marmol
Aug 2016
#48
We should catalog Thought-terminating cliches. One of the ones I notice most in GD is
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2016
#68
But they *do* kill on occasion. Are those killed by cars and drugs less dead than shooting victims?
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2016
#25
You're evading. What if I was the target? Would using deadly force to stop that person be bad?
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2016
#52
Fine words, indeed- but they do not answer the question asked. Here it is again:
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2016
#62
The claim that Zimmerman exercised a right has no bearing to anyone outside of the case.
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2016
#76
Is this the official NRA fairy story version of the murder of Trayvon Martin?
guillaumeb
Aug 2016
#80
The character of persons in particular cases have no bearing on rights in other cases
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2016
#87
Wow! That's a pretty "creative" interpretation of the actual evidence and testimony
DonP
Sep 2016
#89
If I'm attacked without provocation and fear grave bodily injury do I have a right to
Nuclear Unicorn
Sep 2016
#114
For the sake of argument, let us concede that your estimate of him is correct.
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2016
#91
If someone, without provocation, threatened me with grave injury or death would I
Nuclear Unicorn
Sep 2016
#97
I wish my other interlocutor would answer the question. He's made a point to answer so many other
Nuclear Unicorn
Sep 2016
#100
You are denying difference in circumstances, which prevents effective action to prevent those deaths
krispos42
Sep 2016
#129
Your collective guilt-tripping and appeals to emotion seem not to be gaining traction
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2016
#13
I agree - at least 2/3 are in that example...suicide and all. Guess most are in fact, as others
jmg257
Aug 2016
#41
Remarkable few of which were caused by by the group under discussion
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2016
#15
A thoughtful reply to a question not asked- and I should have said CNG vehicles, not electric ones
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2016
#29
While around 1200 criminals are responsible for over 400 deaths in Chicago alone every year.
jmg257
Aug 2016
#67
And they see no_hypocrisy in arguing from a position of ignorance........
pablo_marmol
Sep 2016
#108