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Re: NOT GUILTY

Posted by **No Flies On Frank** on Jul 14, 2013 at 10:30:09 AM:
In Reply to: Re: NOT GUILTY posted by **Hippie J** on Jul 14, 2013 at 6:45:07 AM:

****Jurors: Zimmerman not guilty of 2nd-degree murder
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***So ends the railroad job they tried to pull on him..let's just see if the riots happen.
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**I don't think that citizens like George Zimmerman or anyone else should be able to confront people with lethal force and play cop. There is no justification that I can think of that allows private citizens to confront people if they aren't in imminent danger. What's to stop anyone from confronting anyone else and using lethal force if this is allowed? Tonight's ruling simply allows vigilantes to act more easily. It's not the mark of civilized society to let people take the law into their own hands. Florida has a problem with its juries, its laws or both. I don't see how this can't be a bizarre and dumb decision. I don't know how often this happened in the past but some places in our country still have very strange customs and laws.
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*nonsense
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*you saying people should not be allowed to defend themselves, their property, their community - that's absurd
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*rather shocking to hear you say such a thing
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*there is no problem with this verdict or florida juries - no doubt though there are TOO MANY laws - we need less not more
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*reliance on a nanny police state will solve nothing except more irrational and unnecessary deaths a the hands of cops
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Where do we draw the line between self-defense and aggression though? I don't think Zimmerman was merely defending himself. If Martin had approached him I might feel differently. However, Zimmerman was pursuing someone whom he thought was a criminal and doing so deliberately. That's the point where it crossed the line between self-defense and vigilantism for me. He might not have intended to kill him but it's still reckless to pursue criminals with the potential to use lethal force. It's no different than seeing a thief rob my house and going on a high speed chase through the city after him. I don't believe in citizen arrests and citizens acting like cops because then it's just too chaotic. Most people don't have the training or resources to take on other people on their own. Anyone could arrest anyone for anything. Anyone could pick a confrontation with anyone else. Any violence which occurs then could be justified as self-defense.



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