yeah reading back through it he probably didn't, but like I said it boils my blood.
We all have those subjects. I dislike throwing around terms like racist and political correctness.
yeah reading back through it he probably didn't, but like I said it boils my blood.
He was going home.
Yep. I've done all the posting on this subject.
Again there is an entire internet between us. If you don't want to talk about it or respond it's simple. Don't.
or just continue to pretend that I have somehow sucked you in.
Oh I am not attempting to paint him as a person worhty of sympathy. I think his main problem is impulse control. He cannot control himself. He is responsible for the death of Trayvon. It is entirely possible that he murdered him in cold blood. Just couldn't be proven.
If this keeps up he might make himself such a target that he gets taken out. He is just cementing that he is guilty int he Martin case in the minds of the public. Being in the publics eye is the last thing he should want.
pfftI guess replying to you (and others), and then getting the same post quoted twice for some reason, constitutes me heading up a gang of street thugs out to get poor little mr. HeyHey who was just minding his own business until all of us internet tough guys came along to drag him screaming into the muck and force him to discuss a subject he had no interest in. Gotcha. Don't worry, this is the last time I will reply to you. Ever.
Gotta love ignore.
Shooting someone, even when justified (not specific to Zimmerman/Martin), has massive consequences for the shooter. I'm always appalled when I hear people say that if someone broke into their home they would kill them. They talk about it like they get a free pass to take someone's life. First, that's not what your rights are. Your right is to defend yourself. Seldom do I hear people talk about using deadly force as a means to self-defense. Usually they talk about it as a means to kill. Bragging about the caliber or ammo type of their weapon and how it would be sure to kill a person dead. Worse is when they say things like "two in the chest one in the head" as if to put the point on it that the goal is not to stop the threat but to kill a scumbag.
What I think they are entirely failing to realize is that regardless of their fantasies, they are not stone cold killers. The act of killing another human being will likely leave them severely traumatized. The act may be called into question, especially if they went beyond self defense and sought to make sure the person was dead, and they'll be defending them self against serious legal action. Their life will almost certainly not just return to normal even if the killing was justified.
Zimmerman was having marital problems before he killed Martin. His wife seems to have felt some sense of duty to stand by her man during his trial, but that's over now. Are Zimmerman's actions evidence that he's always been prone to violence and aggression? Or, are his actions evidence of the strain the using deadly force puts on a person coupled with the strain of a failed marriage? I don't think we can say.
What I can say, though, is that it is far better to use the least amount of force necessary to defend yourself than to seek out confrontations and use the maximum amount of force or equip yourself in a way that makes any use of force likely to be deadly.
I agree with this and disagree too. I've been around guns all my life and am comfortable with any standard pistol or rifle. I don't feel a need to practice regularly and have shot maybe 50 rounds through my home defense .40. I don't conceal carry and on that I agree regular aim training is a duty.
Where I agree -- a single mother at work is scared of guns but wanted the home protection. She's a 2x widower and found Mr. 1 dead suicide by gun. She kept saying she'd go for the knee caps. Several separate gun owning, cc coworkers plus myself advised her to not get a gun.
early model Springfield XD
Back Handedly polite, maybe. This always boils my blood. If you want to be dismissive I'm cool with that but don't cover it in a veil of platitudes.
I did not pick a target, but reading through it yep I was being a jerk.
Please don't think I'm one of those whiny short guys. Whiny maybe short no.
I can see how it seemed like a backhanded response. It wasn't. I've gone several rounds on this with One Brow, ElRoach, NUMBERICA (maybe not directly), GVC, Candrew, and on and on and on. There are probably more than 10,000 words from me on the Trayvon/Zimmerman thing in the other thread.
I'm not The Black Swordsman. I don't think I've dominated anyone on this issue. I expressed my take. Other people have expressed theirs. I doubt I changed many minds. I really didn't mean any offense to you in deciding not to go at it one more time. In all honesty, if anyone wants to know how I feel or what my position is, it's out there. I haven't been perfectly consistent. I feel like I've expressed different things based on my own changing opinion or even just based on my mood for the day. I'm not a Zimmerman fan. He killed a kid that didn't need to die. But I do feel like I've taken the issue apart and evaluated it as unemotionally as I possibly can. Of course I'm biased, I'm imperfect and I'm probably blind to my own faults in logic...but I have put in an honest effort. That's all I've got.