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tapermaker

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3. what if a white fat guy with a gun(someone like me)

Reply to yurbud (Original post)

Tue Jul 16, 2013, 02:11 PM

Jul 2013

and a deep resentment for all discrimination decides to buy a ticket from Oregon to Sanford to visit the place where such a horrible tragedy occurred.What if I brought a sign with me and sat down to reflect one evening pulling my hoody up over my head to cut the wind.Suddenly someone steps outside their home and rudely confronts me, telling me to get the fuck out of there community.sensing their hostility and fearing for my safety I reach inside my hoody pocket ,pull out a my gun and lay them out.

this law is so wrong on such a basic level.

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So if the father of black teens sees George Zimmerman walking around his neighborhood... [View all] yurbud Jul 2013 OP

. TeeYiYi Jul 2013 #1

Nobody's daddy will be seeing chickenshit George. madashelltoo Jul 2013 #2

I am not even advocating it, just thinking through the logic of the case. yurbud Jul 2013 #10

George Zimmerman's best chance of staying alive JimDandy Jul 2013 #12

HA! That's the best response. You should send that to him. yurbud Jul 2013 #23

I think you are right. Fringe Jul 2013 #13

or be the neighborhood watch watcher yurbud Jul 2013 #24

what if a white fat guy with a gun(someone like me) tapermaker Jul 2013 #3

You'd have to wait for them to start beating the shit out of you... Pelican Jul 2013 #22

anyone who runs into him could just shoot him according to floriduh leftyohiolib Jul 2013 #4

Can't he be shot from a distance given he's known to be carrying? I mean if he makes a mzmolly Jul 2013 #5

since ALEC fomented them, they should be sued yurbud Jul 2013 #7

That's an interesting mzmolly Jul 2013 #9

+1 HiPointDem Jul 2013 #11

Sure, if you think a jury in Florida is going to believe that it was reasonable for you to think onenote Jul 2013 #16

Did you take my post seriously? mzmolly Jul 2013 #19

No. Cheap_Trick Jul 2013 #6

It would be pre-emptive self-defense to shoot Zimmerman on sight! TheDebbieDee Jul 2013 #8

Otherwise known as first degree murder. nt hack89 Jul 2013 #17

But a Sandford jury would know what was in his heart! leftstreet Jul 2013 #18

Or the Bush Doctrine. nt tblue37 Jul 2013 #20

I suppose at some point these threads will peter out onenote Jul 2013 #14

maybe if the Father is White it would work, but no way would it work with a Black Father JI7 Jul 2013 #15

that was part of my point. yurbud Jul 2013 #21