Michael Dunn, Florida Man, Invokes 'Stand Your Ground' Law After Shooting Black Teen

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129. What utter bovine excrement.

As an adult, I do it all the time. I ask for a reasonable thing: please turn down your headphones or stereo, or please put on headphones when looking at your computer in a public space. We HAVE to do this as a society. We cannot bother the police for a simple request like this. They have bigger fish to fry! And it sends the message that no one is allowed to ask something of someone else and that is a dirty lie.

What we are seeing right now is a small segment of the population without proper training on how to behave. In the 'hood there is a learned helplessness about being assertive and asking for reasonable things like this. So people get away with loud music and loitering on corners and even sometimes on porches which do not belong to them! However, when they are mingling with people outside the community, they come against resistance and if they have never had many boundaries in life, they can become incensed at someone having the audacity to ask them to modify their behavior. I think that is what happened in this case.

It's too bad that some people are so fear-based that they feel the need to carry a gun. I am sure Mr. Dunn wishes this had never happened.