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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]liberalhistorian
(20,906 posts)that he SHOULDN'T HAVE GOTTEN OUT OF HIS VEHICLE TO CONFRONT HIM IN THE FIRST FUCKING PLACE? What part of that is so hard for you to understand? And he had NO legal authority whatsoever to be doing what he was doing, he wasn't even a true "neighborhood watch captain". He ignored 911's orders to NOT GET OUT OF THE FUCKING CAR. If someone gets out of their car and confronts me while I'm walking home from the store IN MY OWN GODDAMNED NEIGHBORHOOD, you'd better believe I'm gonna have a problem with that. And if I'm unarmed, as the kid was, you'd better believe the confronter has a far greater advantage over me.
You seem not to understand or accept that Zimmerman shouldn't have gotten out of his car and had NO RIGHT OR BUSINESS doing so in the first place. For someone so big on self-defense against aggressors, you seem not to understand that the kid also felt threatened being stalked and followed (as he told his girlfriend when he was on the phone with her when Zimmerman first started following him in his car) and had the right to then defend himself and he was greatly outmatched. Unless you consider a bag of skittles and a can of Arizona iced tea to be dangerous weapons right up there on a par with a fucking GUN.
But anything to defend a fellow gun nut and those "murder with impunity" laws, huh?