No one said he didn't understand right from wrong. And no, it's not just about a private citizen carrying a gun. It's about a private citizen carrying a gun AND looking to enforce the law. See, if you carry a gun, and go about your day, that's one thing. But if you grab your gun, and go out at night looking for criminals, that's a completely different issue. You are tuned into trouble, you are looking for it, which means you are bound to see it where it isn't necessarily. If you believe in your gut that Trayvon was a criminal at heart, like some have stated, then I guess you can applaud Zimmerman. But he didn't have the kid's id. He didn't have his twitter feed. He didn't know him from a hole in the ground. And still he decided that he was a criminal because he was 'looking at houses'.
While it might be the point of view of some that we should all close our curtains, call the cops then mind our bees wax, I do not subscribe to that school of thought. George Zimmerman was not playing cop, he was following a suspiscious character that was walking through a gated community while communicating the situation to police. He was informed that he should break off the pursuit, which he did and was ambushed by this young man.
I can absolutely, unequivocally state that never should neighbourhood watch be walking alone through the neighbourhood at night, unmarked, armed, and tracking people down for 'looking at houses'. Never. Not in their community, not in mine, not in yours, and I know for a fact that you're smart enough to have never put yourself and Martin in the precarious position Zimmerman put them both in that night. And if you did, here in Canada, you'd be in jail right now. There's no excuse for that kind of targeting. No reason to expect that a teenage boy should know he's being targeted as a criminal at 1:30 in the morning for walking home. No reason to expect that Zimmerman held any kind of credibility, or was anything but a threat, in the way he was following him.
If George Zimmeman had been raped would that he be his fault as well. Everyone has been sucking down this kool aid that George Zimmerman went out hunting with intent to kill because he had a gun. Quite frankly, that's a load of hooey. George Zimmerman was the victim of an assault and was forced to take the life of a young man who broke his nose and smashed his head off the concrete. There has been a hell of a lot of dishonesty surrounding this case. First of all we have the dishonesty of the media, editing 911 calls to frame Zimmerman up and some kind of racist. And of course they portrayed him as white man with a gun who shot a poor defenseless young fellow who was just out getting some skittles. Heck, half these ignoramuses wearing their P_ssy A$$ Cracker Shirts are still buying that load of crap. The photos of Zimmermans injuries were withheld by the prosecution, because let's face it, unless you're frigging blind. it kind of deflates the whole Trayvon was just some sweet varsity football player on his way back from buying skittles no doubt en-route to read to the blind or give blood or serve food to the homeless down at the Sally Ann.
The fact that people seem to miss that is terrifying to me. The fact that they will continue to think it's okay to grab a gun, and go out into the night alone, unidentified, untrained, and looking for bad guys, is a scary prospect unless you are dead certain that no one you love or care about could be mistaken for 'bad'.
Again with the gun. We don't have the same carry permits they have in the States. But that aside, had Zimmerman not had a gun, maybe one more knock off the curb would have killed him. It's not that you know. I was told an inch to the right when my son was beaten unconscious and I'd be visiting his grave.
Should people on neighborhood watch work in groups? Sure. Have I ever gone out after someone I deemed suspect. Yep. By myself. Sometimes we do things and later reflect as to whether it was correct or not. I'm sure George Zimmerman will think about tyhis the rest of his life, long after the rabid frothing at the mouth idiots take off their Tshirts and find a new victim to paint with a scarlet letter.
Oh best I end this with a smiley.
