@BillRM,
BillRM wrote:
Quote:don't know that I would think it right to launch a deadly attack on that person...but I sure as hell would confront him. Which is what I think Trayvon Martin did. Perhaps Zimmerman gave him some lip...and maybe even pushed him...and maybe Trayvon reacted to the push...and the confrontation became physical.
Well you might not know but I know that it is not right to launch an attack because someone had annoyed you either legally or morally right.
Second, there is zero and I mean zero evidence of any of the above story line of your happening and dreaming up some possible situations where it might had been Zimmerman fault is not good enough to even charge him let alone try him let alone after a not guilt verdict keep attacking Zimmerman for defensing himself.
Oh, I might had also talk to Zimmerman but I would had done so in a friendly way that no conflicted would had resulted. Love you using the word confront Zimmerman instead of just talking to him it tell me your mind set in dealing with another person on the streets.
When being challenge in my past such as when I was working for the 2010 census I had no hard feeling toward the person challenging me and those challenges went beyond just following me.
Footnote there were a very small percent of the population that was very very unfriendly to censors takers and yet I did not get into any conflict with such people.
"Censors takers", huh. That what you were...a censors takers! (Jesus!)
Bill, what happened is pretty clear...at least the beginning is. Zimmerman decided that Martin was acting suspicious (walking and talking on his telephone!)...and decided to "protect" humanity from this terrible threat.
It ended with Zimmerman shooting young Martin through the chest...killing him.
All the rest is close to speculation...even the supposed eye-witness testimony.
You have taken a position of Zimmerman being right...and of Martin being wrong...that Zimmerman was reasonable in killing Martin...and that Martin was unreasonable in reacting to Zimmerman's stalking.
I think that is because you want to kill someone. I think you want very, very much to kill someone...and for it to be "justifiable." Perhaps you even want your wife to kill someone...and for it to be "justifiable."
Much of what you have written here indicates to me that you do feel that way...and that you would walk away from such a killing feeling elated...and, of course, justified.
I imagine you imagining scenarios where you are "forced" to defend yourself...and shooting someone at close range. I imagine you imaging watching the person bleeding and dying in front of you...with a degree of satisfaction in finally having felt the thrill of killing a fellow human being...for cause, of course.
You are a fellow human being to me, Bill...and I don't hate you. I don't even dislike you. I pity you...and I can't conceive of the set of circumstances that has caused you to become what you have become. Your life must have been tragic at one time.
Anyway...Trayvon Martin is dead. If he was going to become a productive member of society or a bum or criminal doesn't matter, because he is dead.
George Zimmerman is free.
Tomorrow I will play golf and enjoy my life as much as possible.
And you can hope that one day you will be able to use that gun you carry to kill someone.