Something like stereotype threat, maybe? I kinda agree. His job prospects aren't great and that gun could pay his rent for months. That he's selling it as an artifact instead of as a used gun is pretty distasteful, but it'd also boosts the price a lot. It's done. Best resolution is someone puts it in their private collection and the public never hears of it again.
I personally don't care whether his job prospects are bad, or whether he can pay his rent. And the person buying the gun will likely make a fuss over the purchase. Probably build a museum around it. May even parade it around as if its a national treasure. Someone that buys it certainly would do it to hide it away. The best thing that could really happen with it is that no one buys it. That Zimmerman goes broke, and then accidentally shoots himself with it.
There are plenty of racists who would love to hire someone like Zimmerman. Don't they view him as a hero.
If he did then he'd be in jail for murder and we'd have never heard about the case at all. Come to think of it, yeah, probably the best possible resolution would have been if Trayvon did murder Zimmerman instead of merely assaulting him and then get life imprisonment, in that scenario both scumbags would be off the streets and we'd have never had this long debate. That way it would have just been a black guy murdering a Hispanic guy which isn't even newsworthy.
Based on what we know about how the justice system handles black people shooting people (especially people who aren't black), this is probably true. If Zimmy pulled his gun and Trayvon popped him it would be interesting to see how it would go down in court.
Based on the law, if Trayvon had murdered Zimmerman then....well he should go to jail. Do you disagree? I mean, if Zimmerman hadn't shot Trayvon then he'd have gone to jail for assaulting Zimmerman, if he murdered him instead of assaulting him he'd probably also go to jail. That would be the justice system working. In a scenario where everything was the same, Trayvon assaults Zimmerman for the crime of looking at him, then Zimmerman pulls his gun and Trayvon pulls his gun and murders Zimmerman, it would be a pretty obvious case of murder and the national news wouldn't care about it because it would just be a case of a black man murdering a Hispanic man which isn't newsworthy.
One could very easily argue self defense unless the same rules that helped get Zimmerman off don't apply to Martin.
I would note that I was proven 100% right in this whole episode. It's tragic that Martin was killed, period. What I was against from the beginning was the extreme media bias regarding how this case was presented to the public. Too many folks were wrapped up in racial rage simply based on their (wrong) first impressions from the biased media. Up to and including Obama. This caused senseless violence. People should learn not to be biased by the media in cases like this.
It's the scenario that doesn't apply, the same rules do apply. When you attack someone, you can't say you are standing your ground. If Zimmerman had attacked Trayvon, then he could argue self defense. That wasn't the case though.
If it's 'murder' then of course by definition. But, I think Trayvon had the better case for self-defense. It would have been best, though, if neither of them had a gun.
When you attack someone, you have no case for self-defense making it murder if you then kill someone in the middle of an assault. If neither of them had a gun, Trayvon goes to jail for assault but we never hear about it which would be better. Of course in that scenario there's a chance Travyon attacks someone else after he gets out of jail and he could have ended up dead in that attack so it might not have made that much of a difference.
Not interested in arguing the Trayvon case with you again. I will say though that Zimmerman probably wouldn't have the balls to stalk people in the first place if he didn't have a gun on him.
