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Originally Posted by NC_Skins
You act as if that moron George Zimmerman is innocent. He was a lunatic that really has no right to be carrying his gun. While I agree with the verdict (based on law), this tragedy could have been avoided by cooler heads. Irrational people that make poor decisions shouldn't be carrying guns.
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There's the problem with the anti-gun crowd. You feel that you, or at least the Government has the authority to judge who has the "right" and who should be denied their Constitutional rights and it doesn't end at the 2nd Amendment, you can so casually deny the 1st Amendment right to those you do not agree with. Don't agree? I bet you'd shut down every Tea Party rally in a second if you could. You spewed some hatred about them earlier actually.
Fact was that Zimmerman was assaulted and he defended himself. Was he a completely, 100% sane person? Who knows except God. He saw a young thug peeking into windows and tried to help his neighbors. Should he have left it up to the cops? Yes, probably, but you do not know him well enough to say that the Constitution doesn't apply to him. There was a big effort by the media and the President himself to paint Zimmerman, who was also a victim of a crime as a madman just because they were able to politically capitalize on the death of a black kid. Besides, if the President had a son, he's look like Travon, but he wouldn't be allowed to play football. I heard the President STILL using that kid's name last week in a speech.
Should we try to prevent legitimate mentally-ill people from having firearms, absolutely! That's the Sandy Hook shooter right there, he was mental...not an NRA member like Giantone likes to pretend. But, we do not want the Government ever being the judge and jury on illness, ask Jews in Germany how that power ends up.
Next time your head is being slammed into the concrete sidewalk by a 6-foot tall teenager in a hoodie who is taller than you are, I hope you have the chance to defend yourself too.
