I don't think this has anything to do with politics, it is to do with the interpretation of law.

Well, you're dead right there Kingy. I'm not convinced this will lead to blood on the streets, as there was a lot of grey areas in this case.

a gun is such a crude implement for law enforcement .. it ejects a piece of metal which smashes into someone's body .. cant they come up which something which will incapacitate someone without loss of life? what's the fascination with guns?

This case really was about gun culture and violence, less so about race. If Zimmerman had been carrying pepper spray or a collapsible baton or a morning star or something then Martin might have survived and we would have seen a much more lively trial. Dipshits like Zimmerman should not be allowed to carry lethal firearms (Captain Preppy may have something interesting to say on this front).

The DA bit off way more than he could chew by charging Zimmerman with second degree murder. There was simply no evidence to make that case. I'm a little surprised that the jury didn't return a manslaughter conviction, since it seems like manslaughter is what it obviously was.

At any rate Zimmerman is a hacked-off little turd who wanted to pretend to be Robocop; we'll never know what Martin thought about the whole thing. I don't think that there will be riots.

I just got back from rioting.  I totally threw this empty starbucks coffee cup into the trash.  The coffee spilled everywhere inside of the trash can.  BOOM.

It is odd compared to the rest of the western world, how many Americans feel or have real need to live in gated communities with their own private security. Outside of South Africa and other second world nations, I see no other modern nation where you have to go such lengths to protect yourself from all the gun totting, meth snorting, crazies and pyscho killers. Which, a few notable serial killers aside in places like the UK, the US led the world since the 1960s.

Interesting, I automatically assumed it was to do with the dangers of gun crime.

Funnily enough, around me, the gated communities are in the areas with the least amount of crime.  I mean, there are of course inner city developments where you can tell the gate is there for practical purposes.  But out in the burbs the gate may only protect you from some unruly teens tipping your marble lawn ornament.  Crime has spread out of the depressed urban areas over the past few years, but currently we're seeing more crime - auto theft, armed robbery, assault, etc, in the inner city neighborhoods that were formerly depressed, low income, mostly black but are now being increasingly populated by younger whites that want in town living - young whites that are often really naive and have their faces in their iphones while walking past a crack house.  Very easy targets in other words.  You also see the city street with tiny, run down shotgun houses and then right next door is a brand new hulking 3 story residence that probably costs close to a million bucks, with a fence and gate around it.

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