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In reply to the discussion: There's a debate about whether Zimmerman should have been carrying [View all]MrScorpio
(73,772 posts)In the absence of the soon to be arriving cops, his gun was his back up, was it not?
Are you adopting the position given by the Zimmermans, that Trayvon attempted to gain control of his gun?
Because, if you are, then that's the only way that you can make your current course of argument to stick. I'd really like to know.
Because, I think that the Zimmermans are lying about that. They've been truth deficient on a whole list of other issues and I don't think that they're creditable enough to make a good enough case about Trayvon trying to take Zimmerman's gun.
I'm not talking about most CCW holders, I'm talking about George Zimmerman. You're going to have to divorce your own reasoning for carrying a weapon from this guy to understand where I'm coming from. He makes a very bad example for the implementation of CCW, because he obviously did everything wrong and irresponsibly.
I said that he's the last person who should have been carrying a gun that day, and nothing that you've cited, in the way that most other CCW holders behave, can dispute my assertion about George Zimmerman
This armed and cowardly fool.
I'm also making a very clear point that the very reason that he sought to carry a weapon was because he thought that he would eventually find himself in a situation where he'd have to shoot another human being. That is the purpose of handguns, to shoot other human beings. He did eventually do what he prepared himself to do. Only the person that he shot was unarmed and would not have posed a threat to him otherwise.
He chose be afraid, he chose to carry a weapon in order to equip himself in case he'd come across the object of his fears, he chose to bring that weapon into a confrontation that he himself initiated with an unarmed individual and he chose to use it to kill that person.
Were he not to be afraid, or not carry a weapon, or confront Trayvon with that weapon and eventually use it, things would have been drastically different.
You can't get any more direct than that.