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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Go back and take a look at all of these reports today that are crying out to charge Zimmerman with hate crimes, you even have prosecutors talking about it in the media. I didn't say that he had been, and if it came off that way I apologize for that.
Your adding in a lot of after the fact data hoss, your saying that the police should have been prejudged by the victim?
Your labeling the shooter as a psychopath, but you don't know that and I don't know that, and again I agree with you, we don't know what happened.
I'm not saying that there is a nothing to see here case, I don't know where the hell you got that from, but to me this has become a battle between the media, special interest groups and the justice system more then anything else. We don't have the facts, and I will admit that I mis stated my OPINION that this wasn't a hate crime, it was stupidity and probably stupidity on both sides.
If anything I theorize, think, that at this point this isn't a debate about racial issues, and about hate crimes as much as it should be a debate about gun control, and neighbourhood vigilatism and the stupidity of the stand fast law and its interpretation.
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Since when is the media being outlandish in this world of 24 hour news channels a new thing? The fact that media outlets are going overboard is to be expected, it does not however have anything to do with whether or not this is actually a hate crime.
I have no idea what you're talking about regarding the police being prejudged by the victim, I'm not even sure what that means. I have yet to see a lick of evidence that indicates that Martin did anything wrong, he walked home with his hood up. That's it. All we know beyond that is that he was stalked down by a guy who was told by the police to not do so. What happened when they encountered each other is a mystery, but what's very clear is that the local police department did very little to change that.
Btw, I never said that you think this is a nothing to see here case. I explicitly said that the local police force handled it in that manner.
I agree completely with your last paragraph, this is about allowing anyone to have a gun and then putting a law in place that makes it way too easy for them to use it.