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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]liberalhistorian
(20,906 posts)established that he was NOT a formal "neighborhood watch captain." And I find it incredible that you'd believe he had the right to get out of the car with a gun to confront a child who LIVED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD and who was doing nothing wrong other than walking home from the store while black. Somehow I don't think that true neighborhood watch people who find and send home non-neighborhood kids trying to sneak into the complex pool would use the tactic of confronting them with a gun to do so.
And you still seem not to understand that Martin likely felt threatened as well, by someone following and chasing him, while he was alone, at night, and doing nothing wrong. What about HIS feelings of being threatened? Anyone in their right mind would have felt threatened under those circumstances. Why are his feelings of being threatened, intimidated and in danger not legitimate to you, but Zimmerman's are, even though he had the car and the gun? I guess in your world, only people with guns have the legitimate right to feel threatened and in danger, even when they confront and intimidate those who do not.