Am I the only one shocked at how many DUers still don't "get it?"

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79. and to think that I got a post deleted yesterday

for saying that people on the left do not seem to believe in self defense.

Yet here you are saying self defense does not matter. It does not matter if Trayvon started the fight and was winning the fight? Am I hearing that right?

I would say that you left something out, like so

"a crazy ass white guy with a loaded gun stalked a black kid and killed him...&quot after the "kid" started beating him up and he yelled for help for about twenty seconds).

I believe I have a right to be suspicious of people that I do not know - whether they are white or black or hispanic or asian. I'll go even further and say that I have a right, as a citizen of a supposedly free country, to be MORE suspicious of people of other races. It wasn't nice for that black guy to suspect I was a racist just because I am white, and it wasn't morally right, but it also was not illegal. Nor should it be.

I also have a right to follow people, even at night, and especially in my own neighborhood. That is not against the law, nor should it be.

It may be annoying to be profiled, suspected and followed, but it does NOT, nor should it, give you the right to assault the person you suspect is following you. People have a right to defend themselves, I would say, even "crazy a$$ white guys" have a right to defend themselves.

So I am not that outraged that somebody defended himself. It's a senseless tragedy for a kid to be killed, but it was a senseless tragedy precipitated by an assault. At least, I believe it was, and it might have been, and only one person knows for certain.