What kind of person would think that Zimmerman had the right to...

[Moses2SandyKoufax]

151. Good OP. I haven't read any of the replies yet,

but I'd like to ask the Zimmerman apologists a few questions.

1) What if it were your child in Trayvon's position? If you have children, didn't you teach them to never comply with the requests of a stranger in public? Oh I know, I know, Trayvon wasn't a "child", he was a young black male, and like all black men was a potential danger to society. (Unlike Bristol Palin who pregnant at 17 was just a child who made an innocent mistake, and the Bush twins who got caught drinking at 19! Yay for extended adolescence! Another benefit of white privilege!)

2) Knowing what we know about this can't character, would you want your daughter/sister/niece to date, or end up with a man like George Zimmerman?

I'm not totally sure, but I'm thinking that a lot of gun nuts really don't think much of Zimmerman as a person, but they've taken an interest in this case because essentially many of their pet issues have gone on trial. They look at Zimmerman and think, "There before the grace of God". These are tough things for me to admit, because it validates my beliefs that the vast majority of gun nuts and CCW holders view the world from the same paranoid, violent lense that George Zimmerman saw it. This is why I'm willing to go to extraordinary lengths to avoid people who like guns and become obsesed with law and order.