@revelette,
Quote:I personally find it stupidly ironic for Zimmerman fans to be talking of race baiting which is the current spin term right now with most of the shrill conservative parrots demonizing the memory of a dead 17 year old boy.
These people aren't defending Zimmerman, revelette, they are defending GUNS.
And hyping fears of blacks, even of black
children is intended to justify their need to carry their GUNS.
Any sane person realizes that Zimmerman's poor judgment, impulsivity, and
racial profiling led to the death of an innocent young minor--Trayvon Martin had no interest in harming anyone that night, he was on his way home to watch an NBA basketball game.
Zimmerman disregarded the rules of being a neighborhood watch by stalking this teen, and by carrying his GUN while doing so, because his need to be a vigilante, and to satisfy his own personal obsessions, obscured all else, including common sense and good judgment. He needlessly provoked a confrontation and altercation with an unarmed child, and then killed that child when he tried to defend himself.
These gun-lovers are celebrating the vindication of using a gun at a fist-fight, and championing the poorly written Florida self-defense laws that allowed the shooter to escape criminal responsibility for his acts.
They have tried to demonize an innocent child, walking home from the store with candy and a soft drink--a child who was too young to buy a pack of cigarettes or a can of beer at that store--because, if they acknowledge that this child posed no threat to anyone, when spotted and erroneously profiled by Zimmerman, they would have to admit that this entire tragic incident, and needless death, was Zimmerman's fault. They are celebrating the use of a GUN, and they have no interest in avoiding the need to use a GUN, or even avoiding its use in a fistfight with an unarmed child who is trying to defend himself from a menacing stranger.
Even the jurors in this case have asked for a change in the self-defense laws that allowed them to acquit Zimmerman, because they, unlike the gun-lovers in this thread, did not view Zimmerman as without blame or moral responsibility for this death.
It's all about GUNS, revelette, these people really have no regard for George Zimmerman beyond being able to use him to advocate for the need to carry a GUN, and, to do that, that have to promote him as the hapless victim of an unprovoked
attack by another
dangerous black male, the kind that fills our prisons, and, thank goodness, Zimmerman had that GUN to protect himself. This is NRA PRO-GUN publicity carried to the max, designed to stoke fears, even of children armed with a bag of candy and a soft-drink, if they are black.
And now they have to go after Sharpton and Jackson, and even Obama, and any other black leaders who are saying those flawed Florida self-defense laws have to be revised or repealed. They fear that someone like Sharpton has the organizational skills to harness enough social and political power to accomplish that task. They don't want to see blacks engaging in effective social action, they want to see them rioting, because that's good for the PRO-GUN movement, it helps to sell more guns. They don't like the effective social action that helped to finally get Zimmerman arrested, or that brought out people, all across the country, to march last Saturday, despite the blazing heat, demanding justice for Trayvon Martin. And an upcoming march on Washington next month will galvanize this movement even more, and that includes their demands for better GUN CONTROL, and better background gun checks, to stop shadow purchasers from flooding our inner cities with more GUNS.
It's all about GUNS, revelette, which is why these gun-lovers choose to ignore the history of psychological problems, and run-ins with the law over his problems with aggression, which should have prevented George Zimmerman from ever being able to legally carry his GUN. Notice how they completely ignore that issue, which are matters based on fact and, instead, dwell on fantasies and fabrications about his victim in a desperate attempt to deny the fact that the truly dangerous one was the person with a GUN--and the fact that, had he not had his GUN that night, he might have been able to exercise enough common sense, and good judgment, to remain in his car. GUNS empower people like Zimmerman to act in reckless ways. Zimmerman didn't need a GUN that night to protect himself--he needed the capacity to think rationally, and the self-control to remain in his car. That GUN made an already unstable person a danger and a menace in that community he was allegedly "protecting"--which is why he wound up killing an innocent child who belonged in that community.
George Zimmerman should never be allowed to carry a gun again. He has already shown he is not responsible or stable enough to be able to do that--he could not even abide by the rules of his own neighborhood watch that one should not follow "suspects", and that one should not be carrying a GUN.
There is already an online petition, with close to 22,000 signatures, asking that Zimmerman's permit for concealed carry of a gun to be revoked. It will be printed out and delivered to the Florida DOJ & DACS: Division of Licensing Concealed Weapons.
http://www.causes.com/no-gun-rights-for-zimmerman
All those who realize that GUNS should not be carried by psychologically unstable individuals, with past legal histories involving aggressive actions, should sign the above petition.
