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Originally Posted by longsuffering
You've lost your way Captain. I can't believe you are defending the shooter.
If someone had described a scenario where YOU (CaptainCrunch) were walking through a neighbourhood doing nothing more than returning to your grandmothers home and you were confronted and challenged by a citizen who demanded to know who you were and what you were up to, the Captain I know would say something along the lines of "I'd kick the a$$ of anyone who tried that with me".
And then you'd be dead and certain people would be arguing that you probably had it coming.
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to be honest, I'm not all that comfortable in the role in this debate, I know how I would react to someone following me or stalking me, and there have been times, (when I was much younger where I should have been dead. I've got a nice scar on my shoulder that made me a little smarter after the fact, and a small scar on my forehead that attests to it too.)
I've probably lost my way on this because I am torn on this debate.
There is a huge part in my head that no doubt believes that at the very least this has to be examined by a unbiased justice system and at the very least run through the courts.
There is a huge part in my head that's screaming out that we don't know the fact and where I'm debating poorly is that people are throwing out terms like hate crime, and cold blooded murder, and I'm not sure that is the case and that we don't have enough information to be making those leaps but the media is certainly making large leaps.
There is a small part in my brain that's telling me that even if Zimmerman is charged that there is next to no chance that there is going to be a jury that they can seat that's going to be fair and unbiased anywhere.
I don't know, maybe I am lost, I clearly have no clue about what actually happened, and I don't think anyone does but all of us, myself included really seem to be eager to fill in details as fact.
And trust me when I go, there will be people who stand over my coffin and swear that I had it coming.