The State of Florida vs George Zimmerman: The Trial

If a poster is civil with views diametrically opposed to mine I will still engage him. It's when I find a poster who is cynical, narrow-minded, bigoted, narcissistic that I keep my distance.

The only trouble is that you might be defining cynical, narrow-minded, bigoted and narcissistic in a manner that allows you to avoid important diametrically opposed views and, at the same time, to not look as though they test your patience far enough to cause you to keep your distance.

Bill...what about the people who see Zimmerman as a threat. Shouldn't they be allowed to "stand their ground" so to speak...and rid the planet of this perceived threat.

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Bill...what about the people who see Zimmerman as a threat. Shouldn't they be allowed to "stand their ground" so to speak...and rid the planet of this perceived threat.

LOL if he given them reasonable fear by his actions at the time they encounter him of immediate death or great harm then they would more then be in the right to used up to deadly force to protected themselves.

But to gun him down as he walk down the street likely from behind is nothing more or less then murder no matter how they feel about him.

A crime that Zimmerman was found not guilty of due to Trayvon attacking him and placing him by so doing in reasonable fear of death or great harm by jury verdict.

but hey, let's keep to the title of the thread as I do not intend to be the subject.

it seems you want to be the arbiter of what constitutes great fear of harm...and I do not see that as appropriate

Some people see Zimmerman as a walking bomb...a deadly menace to society.

BillRM spends a lot of time criticising the American justice system, he's always banging on about how unfair and unjust it all is. Apart from this particular case that is.

By the way having live in the same city as OJ after he was found innocent of killing his ex-wife and her friend in cold, I was still of the opinion that he was a dangerous murderer and yet that would not have given me a right to gun him down should he had cross my path.

Unless he had for some reason threaten my life by attacking me or pointing a gun at me and so on.

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it seems you want to be the arbiter of what constitutes great fear of harm...and I do not see that as appropriate

That what we have courts for and six jurors review the matter and found him innocent.

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Some people see Zimmerman as a walking bomb...a deadly menace to society.

So? That still does not give them a right to killed someone for not his or her actions but for what they think he might do some day or had done after a jury found him innocent.

I had the opinion that OJ was a danger to society but that did not grant me any right to harm him.

By the way it would seems that the white community is far more willing to grant respect for a jury verdict that they do not agree with such as the OJ verdict then the black community as in the Zimmerman verdict.

I do not remember any great number of death threats issue against not only OJ but his family, lawyers and the jurors who found him innocent unlike with the Zimmerman verdict.

But there ARE people who think George Zimmerman presents a clear and present danger to everyone (including themselves)...and simply disagree with your take on things.

Is that kind of disagreement allowed?

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But there ARE people who think George Zimmerman presents a clear and present danger to everyone (including themselves)...and simply disagree with your take on things.

Is that kind of disagreement allowed?

They can think anything they care to think however if they try to killed Zimmerman due to that thinking then they will be tied for murder or Zimmerman once more will be able to exercise his right of self defense.

One time I spent 15 min plugging in and unplugging my computer before I figured the power was off. My first clue was when lightening struck the house.