@RABEL222,
Quote:U stupid prick. No body won, everyone lost.
David and the others think they have "won" because, for them, none of this is about the actual legal case of Florida vs George Zimmerman--that case was simply about whether Zimmerman murdered someone, an unarmed minor he shot and killed after stalking the teen through his darkened gated private community. A jury found him not guilty of second degree murder, it passed no judgment, at all on his victim, something someone not familiar with this case would ever guess from reading this thread and listening to his "supporters". The jury also gave no stamp of approval to Zimmerman's reckless and ill-considered actions that led to the encounter with his victim, their verdict simply said that, at the time he pulled the trigger, he did so, not out of malice, but because he felt he had to, in order to protect his own life. Someone would also not realize that by reading his "supporters" comments in this thread--which, somewhat bizarrely, tend to almost exclusively focus on the actions of his victim, and his victim's character, all of which is considerably more fantasy than fact, rather than on Zimmerman's own conduct that night, which was really what his legal case was all about--Zimmerman's behavior that night, and Zimmerman's credibility regarding his version of events. In the real world, it was Zimmerman who was on trial, not his victim, but you'd never know that by reading his supporter's comments on this thread.
So, if it's not really about the actual legal case for these people, what is it about? The guns of course. These are the A2K gun-nuts circling their wagons to protect their guns, shooter-friendly self-defense gun laws, and their "right" to use those guns without legal consequences, and why they allegedly need to have them for "protection".
To make this case, they have to considerably distort the Zimmerman case, and ignore known facts about Zimmerman himself. Zimmerman was not "attacked", out of the blue, by an assailant whose intention was to commit a crime, like a mugging, against him. Zimmerman chose to stalk someone who wasn't bothering him, or anyone else. Had he exercised better judgment, and engaged in less impulsive and reckless actions, the confrontation that required the use of his gun would never have come about. And the fact he had a gun, may have affected his foolhardy vigilante actions that night--the gun empowered him, and it may have decreased his need to act in a more prudent manner, to act in a manner that would have avoided any harm to anyone. Without his gun, Zimmerman might well have just remained in his vehicle and no one would have gotten hurt--an innocent teen would still be alive, and Zimmerman's life wouldn't be in shambles.
Zimmerman wasn't being a "good citizen" or a "hero" that night--he acted like an asshole, a wannabe cop whose reckless behavior proved why we should leave law enforcement to the real cops.
The gun nuts can't accept that reality, so they just ignore it, and parade him around as a example of why they need
their guns--because you never know when some black kid, just innocently walking home from the store, might suddely turn into a crazed "hoodlum" and try to kill you for no reason.
And you need it to protect yourself from all those angry black folks who allegedly threaten to "riot" when they protest second-rate treatment by the criminal justice system, because it chose to ignore the questionable death of an unarmed black male. No one actually threatened riots, they threatened only to continue their peaceful protests until their concerns were addressed. But the gun nuts ignore that--they need to believe that those riots were threatened and imminent. Their message is, "You need your guns to protect you from these scary blacks." They must have been terribly disappointed when riots didn't occur after the verdict. And now one of those blacks is the President, and they know he's coming for their guns. The paranoia, as well as the covert racism, is fairly obvious.
It's all about their guns. And they feel they "won" this one because a shooter got away with using his gun to kill someone, and they don't care that his need to use that gun was totally avoidable, and that he caused an avoidable death.
And, rather than having any qualms about Zimmerman possessing guns now, given his long-standing anger management problems, and his menacing people with threats of gun use since his acquittal, these gun nuts are celebrating the fact he's getting his guns back, David's even suggesting better guns for him.
It's all about the guns, Rabel222, these are the frightened, paranoid types who need their guns in order to feel adequate, in order to feel "manly", in order to feel safe from all those people in the world they think are out to get them, despite the fact that all available evidence indicates their guns make them less safe, and makes their domestic partners less safe. Their need for their guns for alleged self-protection, for these particular posters, is not based in any realistic need, for them the need is
emotional--it's their potency symbol. The thought of being without those guns, affects them like the 4 year old who's just had his security blanket snatched away, it sends them into a total panic. That's just about the emotional level they're at.
It's all about the guns.
