@BillRM,
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Once more you are bright enough to know that Zimmerman was and is not some mad racist killer and Trayvon was not some innocent child.
Are you bright enough to realize that Zimmerman exercised extremely poor judgment that night, and that a tragedy resulted because of his poor impulse control and his obsession not to let those "f--king punks" get away?
Are you bright enough to realize that Trayvon Martin was an "innocent child", whose only intention that night, when George Zimmerman spotted him, was to get home in time to watch a basketball game on TV, and that there was nothing "suspicious", or remotely criminal, about his simply walking about and talking on his cell phone?
Are you bright enough to see that George Zimmerman was not "innocent", that he created the entire situation that night that led to a totally avoidable and needless death, by stalking an innocent kid in the dark? Are you bright enough to understand that he frightened that
child by his actions, and that he provoked whatever occurred between them?
If it bothers you that Zimmerman is being unfairly characterized as "some mad racist killer", why don't you stop characterizing Trayvon Martin as a "hoodlum" and a caricature of a ghetto thug, since your view of Martin is as distorted and inaccurate as the way others view Zimmerman.
Zimmerman made a mistake that night, a terrible mistake, by profiling an innocent high school kid, who was not a criminal, and who had no intention of doing anything criminal, and you're trying to justify his mistake by unjustifiably insisting that this kid did fit some negative racial stereotype of young black urban males, because otherwise you'd have to admit that terrible mistake Zimmerman made. Zimmerman's "suspect", the one he followed and frightened in the dark, was, in fact, an innocent kid, and that's a reality Zimmerman will have to live with for the rest of his life, because that mistake resulted in a needless death.
And rather than express any true compassion, or sadness, over that needless death, and the loss of that teen's life, you persist in blaming Martin for his own death, and, further, you persist in blaming his decent, hard-working, loving, and
grief-stricken parents for his death as well. How low can you get.
Martin didn't profile Zimmerman and follow him around in the dark in that housing complex that night, but he did have the right to defend himself when that menacing stranger confronted him. You seem to think the right to self-defense applies only to those carrying guns, rather than to those who are unarmed and can defend themselves only with a punch to someone's nose. And, since you, as a fellow gun-carrier, must defend Zimmerman's use of his gun, that defensive punch in the nose becomes an "attack" and Zimmerman's subsequent very minor injuries are distorted into "a beating" severe enough for him to fear for his life. And, despite the photos of Zimmerman taken in the police station that night, which clearly show he was not "beaten up" and had sustained only minor injuries, you will continue to beat that same drum.
You obviously don't give a damn about Trayvon Martin, or the loss of his life, and I don't think you really give a damn about George Zimmerman either. It's all about guns. You like guns. You like promoting the use of guns, You don't like attempts at gun control. You don't like attempts to get rid of flawed laws like Stand Your Ground that promote the use of guns, rather than any need to safely retreat. Your only interest in this topic has to do with guns and preserving your gun "rights".
If the verdict in this case showed anything it's that the self-defense laws in Florida are so vaguely and poorly worded that they allow people to get away with murder. Even the jurors, who realized that Zimmerman did bear moral responsibility for that death, were left feeling those laws should be changed, and, the two who have spoken out, were clearly emotionally upset about the decision they had to make in this case. They clearly did not think that Zimmerman was morally "innocent" regarding this death.
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One person at a time such as convicting you that letting the news media/politicians play you over Zimmerman/Trayvon is counter produced to all our best interests.
And how about convincing you that the gun lobby and the NRA, play you over, and that their encouraging the carrying of guns, and their promoting laws like Stand Your Ground, is counter-productive to all our best interests.
Or are you too heavily steeped in NRA propaganda to do that? You certainly seem to be singing their tune.
