Comments on: NRA: Nothing Wrong With Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:56:39 +0000

I’m not even sure why such a law exists. Did we really need it? I mean, law or no law, if I had to defend myself or my family I doubt I’d be thinking about the ‘law’ at that moment.

By: Wharf Rat

Wharf Rat — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:52:46 +0000

Several commenters have referred to the victim (Martin) as a child. The three or four year old photograph shown in the news media does show him as a handsome young man, not a seventeen-year old. When I was a seventeen-year old, two days out of high school, and getting off a bus at Ft. Jackson,SC, I was called a lot of things, but none of them “child.”

By: just tired

just tired — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:59:02 +0000

After reading Rachel’s comment, I have to assume that she was there and witnessed the whole confrontation. I wonder has she been contacted by the investigator? Seems like she could get this whole thing cleared right up.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:20:37 +0000

Old Goldie,

The rates are disproportional to population, yes. My response was to the claim of raw numbers — that more blacks are in prison than whites.

They aren‘t.

Further, if we assume as your article does, that crimes are created at the same rates by all people, then the Asians should be far more represented in the prison system than they are with Asians being 4.8% of the general population but only 1.6% of the prison population. That’s a third of what they should be!! Or restating it, there should be three times as many Asians in prison as there are.

If we assume incarceration rate is related to actual commission of crimes, we have the question of why some have higher rates but at least the poor innocent Asians are off the hook.

David seeking truth
and understanding

By: justice for all

justice for all — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:17:07 +0000

I dont know if this is about race or not but what i do know is that a innocent child was killed.I could care less what his color is,my concerned is that a child has lost his life for nothing.I have been reading the headlines,news,papers,etc and what i am confused about is why would he follow him if he did not see him breaking the law? I could have taken the killing a little better knowing that he saw him hurting someone,beating someone or breaking into a home,car or a store.But, the bottom line is the kid was walking,minding his own business and lived in the community.Regardless of what he was suspended for,i have kids and kids will be kids. Some of us grown folks struggle with breaking the law,drugs and stealing. No one is perfect!! I am sure Zimmerman has a background as well but that has not been disposed.I have a son and if he was walking from a store and was killed i would want justice also and i am sure all of you would feel the same.If Mr. Z had not followed this kid,the kid would be alive and well today.Mr Z has also lost his life bc he shot and killed a child,which is something i hope weighs on his mind each day.The ones that are protecting Mr Z rep,put yourself in his parents shoes.Im sure most of you have kids or grandkids.How would any of you feel,regardless of color if someone shot and killed them for nothing.Race,yes it has been a factor for a lot of years.Yes,some of the things that my black race are doing and saying are wrong.Yes, I am also black,but i dont see color,i see humans.God created us all.What is right is right AND wrong is wrong. FACT: The kid was walking. Mr.Z followed him,lost it for a moment(his mind),a struggle broke out,( i would have defended myself if i was Trayvon) and now a 17 year old is dead.Never will he have kids,never will he go to the prom,take vacations,go on family trips,get married or attend college.His life is over.Again,ask yourself,regardless of his problems in school,his tweets and facebook page,what would you do if your child died and was innocent? Lets stand up for what is right,not for color and lets have justice for all.

By: NWFLA Linda

NWFLA Linda — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:35:32 +0000

With all of the emphasis by the media, brilliantly enflamed by the Jacksons, Sharptons, black panthers, etc. on Mr. Zimmerman’s race and the comment by some black person that Trayvon was killed because he was WWB in a GC (walking while black in a gated community) – riddle me this. Barack Hussein’s mama was Caucasian; his daddy a black Kenyan. Zimmerman’s mama , I believe, is Hispanic; his daddy Caucasion. Barack is called black – Zimmerman is called white. Why is this not “a Hispanic shoots a black person” incident?

At the same time, why aren’t all of these busloads of chanting protestors “no justice, no peace” hollering every time a black kills a black? Those black on black crimes are rampant. Instead, the response is always “I didn’t see nothing but the cops ought to do their job”.

The truth will come out, all the evidence including eye witness statements will be released. Until then, it’s sad to see so many playing into the hands of those whose very existence depends on perpetuating hate crime emotions. And, if I was the family whose address got erroneously posted by Spike Lee in his “bounty” offer for Zimmerman, I’d have me a good attorney and be owning Mr. Lee. (no reference to slavery intended just alluding to results of modern day litigation’s monetary outcome)

By: JM

JM — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:37:11 +0000

The sad thing is it sounds like this was the perfect storm. Two wannabe’s
who don’t know how to do the right thing. It happens all the time, there are shoot outs by people everywhere. This one just happens to be one black, one white and there you are the perfect storm for the media. I’m surprised we didn’t have a bad riot in the streets. We have been so unjust to black people for a century and half I almost don’t blame them. If THEY want justice they have always had to fight for it. Then I realize just how long it has been and how far they have come.
THEY KNOW, they have a black president, WE ALL DO. NOW there is no reason
to say everything is about prejudice and we all hate blacks, when we all know
that’s a lie. That card needs to go away and people need to find a new one.
I am a liberal so hate me it that’s your bag just remember this, hate is a poison that you swallow that only kills YOU. I am FOR, get that, this liberal is FOR THE STAND YOUR GROUND LAW. I am elderly and female and I want to be armed. As an elderly person I have been targeted over and over in my car, in parking lots, in stores and in my home. The police will tell you even if they follow you 30 miles to your house from inside the grocery store and sneak up and try to open your locked door without knocking that there is nothing they can do and that no crime has been committed, IT HAPPENED to me. I am just like JANE next time I will SHOOT to KILL if I am afraid and THEY are IN MY FACE. The bad guys all have guns these days so the rest of us need to have a good hand gun, know how to use it, be permitted to carry it and USE it.

By the way I’m so sick of the LIB card , when people keep using these
cards they just sound ignorant.

By: SW

SW — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:23:47 +0000

Funny, no serious discussion here of the Black Panther $10,000 reward (dead or alive) on Mr. Zimmerman or of the Spike Lee Tweets of Mr. Zimmerman’s address (albeit the wrong address and now innocent people may be in harm’s way).

I fear a repeat of the Rodney King events.

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:43:24 +0000

I had my home broken into, a great deal of painful damage done to my face by someone I had never seen before. It took over a year and a lot of medical and dental expense for me to heal. By the time the police got there the damage was done, the man was never caught. Now I sleep with a pistol by my bed, my car keys, my cell phone and a knife under the pillow. Some wounds never heal. And now you want to tell me I shouldn’t defend myself? Law or no law, if someone breaks into my home I WILL defend myself and everyone should have that right. The Constitution gives us the right to bear arms, not the NRA or anyone else.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:58:02 +0000

@jen-”if Zimmerman killed anybody of another race do u think the same action would’ve been took?”…

If Zimmerman killed anyone of another race we would not have even heard about it…