The State of Florida vs George Zimmerman: The Trial

I am still shaking my head at headlines calling Zimmerman five firearms and a 100 rounds of ammo as either a Arsenal or a Stockpile!!!!!!

The new media once more is going out of their way in trying to paint a false picture of Zimmerman as off hand I would bet that there are tens of millions of law abiding and non violence households in the US with far more firearms then in Zimmerman household.

Gun-related violence is most common in poor urban areas and frequently associated with gang violence, often involving male juveniles or young adult males.[1][2] High-profile mass shootings have fueled debate over gun policies, even though these events are relatively rare.[3] In 2010, 358 murders were reported involving a rifle while 6,009 were reported involving a handgun; another 1,939 were reported with an unspecified type of firearm.[4] High-profile assassinations such as those of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and the Beltway sniper attacks involved the use of rifles, usually with telescopic sights, from concealed locations.
Hand guns figured in the Virginia Tech shootings, Binghamton massacre, Fort Hood massacre, Oikos University shooting, and 2011 Tucson shooting. Assailants with multiple weapons committed the Aurora theater shooting, and the Columbine High School massacre.
In 2009, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 66.9% of all homicides in the United States were perpetrated using a firearm.[5] Two-thirds of all gun-related deaths in the United States are suicides.

Bill, an otherwise pretty smart fella, seems to be lost in the gun culture. He ignores violence by guns and gun owners. His emotions has taken over his brain on this one!

once Zimmerman established that he might have a problem a judge ordered him to not touch guns temporarily, and might make the order permanent. so why are you bitching about how the system works?

I'm not bitching about the way the system works

emotionally and mentally unstable individuals being legally entitled to guns. Neither Wayne LaPierre, or the NRA supports that.

You really should be concerned that, more often than not lately, you are not accurately comprehending the posts you respond to.

bullshit, you were complaining that zimmerman was allowed to have a gun the day he met Martin.

if you let the government outlaw guns to everyone that they find defective eventually only the government will have guns. this government is always pushing to remove our freedom under the argument that we are too defective to handle freedom, that we NEED the government to run our lives for us.

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Bill, an otherwise pretty smart fella, seems to be lost in the gun culture. He ignores violence by guns and gun owners. His emotions has taken over his brain on this one!

Nonsense most legal guns owners with special note of people who had CC licenses are far less likely to misused firearms then others.

When I am at a gun range I am surrounded with police officers, lawyers, doctors, fire fighters and so on.

The same kind of solid middle class people that I used to run into in sky diving or ultra-light flying.

Few if any homes in the small town in PA where I grow up in did not have a number of hunting rifles and shotguns.

The overall crime rate other in the town hardly exist and the one repeat one cop in the town would spend most of his time writing parking tickets.

The only misused of any firearms came when a father of a classmate of mine used his shotgun to killed himself. A WW2 and or Korean vet having a hard time from what I hear adjusting to civil life.

Well, I'm sure you believe that "guns don't kill people, people kill people."

So...Do you think guns should be in the hands of emotionally unstable individuals, like Zimmerman, who have a history of anger management and impulse control problems, and who continue to use guns to threaten and terrorize others, who are unarmed, in situations unrelated to self defense?

Seems to me, even Wayne LaPierre and the NRA doesn't favor keeping guns in the hands of someone like that.

The fact that you can think of other methods of causing mass killings is entirely beside the point.

It's also beside the point of whether guns should be in the possession of those who are mentally ill, and/or emotionally disturbed, particularly when these individuals have already shown evidence of impulsivity, and the irresponsible and inappropriate use of guns to threaten and intimidate others.

It seems to me that when mass shootings have occurred, you've blamed the mental health system, or those close to the shooter, for not recognizing these individuals beforehand.

In the case of Zimmerman, we do have a number of people complaining they are fearful of him, and that he has used guns, or threats of using them, to terrorize them, in situations not involving any self defense on his part, as well as a Chief of Police who has characterized him as a "ticking time bomb" and another "Aurora or Sandy Hook waiting to happen." And then a stockpile of weapons, which could certainly be used for a mass attack, are subsequently found in his possession...

It is amazing, Firefly, that so many "defenders" of the 2nd Amendment are unwilling to see behavior of the sort Zimmerman is exhibiting as a reason to refuse him the right to own guns.