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Re: Trayvon Martin - March 29th 2012, 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Yogi View Post
How confident are you in your sources and understanding of what has occurred?

- Yogi
I think there's a lot of unnecessary emotion here, it's just very interesting how in the absence of clear fact people determine what they believe to be true.

I'm as confident as anyone, given that a lot of the info is coming in bits and pieces and a lot of it is circumstantial. I also use a bit of understanding about human nature and how that is expressed thru behavior to arrive at my own conclusions about the info I'm getting. And what that tells me is that when someone is so grandiose (and foolish) that they feel entitled to play vigilante without any clear authority to do so, and they strap on a gun and then actively goes looking for trouble....they find it. The fact that there's a law on the books that allows someone to shoot to kill in a self defense situation doesn't take away from the simple reality that Zimmerman engaging in this fantasy created a situation that resulted in his need to shoot someone he provoked in the first place. Think about what you'd do if you were being stalked for no reason and approached by a stranger with a gun.

What it is about that others cannot understand or accept is beyond me.


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