Once again America has shown us the way of the caveman (ok, that's not fair on them either) with the ruling of George Zimmerman.
Based on this 'stand your ground' law (in at least 33 states, i.e., the majority of the US):
'Provide that people who fear for their lives can use deadly force to defend themselves without having to flee a confrontation'
Erm, which genius came up with this law??
Mr. Zimmerman kills a 17-year old kid and gets off scot-free. Classic. Apparently then, it's fine to take a life and literally nothing happens to you (minus the fallout after, which in the US probably means someone will kill him soon).
How can you argue you killed someone in self-defence when you are carrying a gun?? Surely the kid, Trayvon Martin could have killed George Zimmerman on the grounds that he felt threatened to the point of death simply because Zimmerman had a gun?
Logically you could go around on a killing spree just because you wanted to, with the defence that 'your life felt threatened'. What absurdity! Besides the whole gun concept, which is just ridiculous, what happened with good old talking and non-violence?
What would you do at school, in some abusive fight, you could just kill the person if they threatened you with something along the lines of 'I'm going to kick your head in?' That would be just cause to kill them in the US?
Something is very wrong and once again the US leads the way in behind the times thinking.
Apart from twisting this into a racial derived case, despite both men (well technically all Americans are), sorry, a boy and man being 'ethnics' (or whatever the term in now), the point is, a man kills a boy, even if the boy punched the guy, so what, but nothing happens to the killer! What is wrong with that picture? I just don't understand it. Surely it's manslaughter and he should do his time, he killed an un-armed kid!!
The classic defence strategy was to lure the jury into Martin's history, showing him smoking cannabis etc, come on, what a cheap trick.Yet it duped the jury and judge and now Zimmerman is a free man. Incredible. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
I thought Islam-extremism was bad, but how different is this? Don't pee-off anyone in Florida, they might pull a gun on you because they can justify it by claiming you threatened their life. What a country.
