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05-20-2012 , 01:05 PM

#426

FlyWf

It's the other way

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Quote:

Originally Posted by NeBlis

read the thread and all of the coverage. The position is basically that Zimmerman was an out of control vigilante because he had a gun.

Jesus Christ, he killed someone. Is there "out of control vigilante" behavior worse than SHOOTING UNARMED INNOCENT PEOPLE?

I know Trayvon was a black, but have some ****ing humanity.

People have attacked stand your ground laws, but those are legitimately terrible policy and have nothing to do with guns. The most outrageous stand your ground law case was that dude who stabbed someone who stole his car radio to death.

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05-20-2012 , 01:08 PM

#427

FlyWf

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Originally Posted by General Tsao

zomg a whole 15 years!! who can even remember that far back.

what if we can remember back to 2008 in which Obama said he thought AK47s should be illegal and then his administration went on to say that it wanted to reinstate the assault weapons ban?

Cite for either of these? My guess is that the first part is straight up fiction and the second part was "some dude who is now part of his administration indicated support for the assault weapons ban", not "his administration".

05-20-2012 , 01:16 PM

#428

General Tsao

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story...1#.T7km30UgOCY

05-20-2012 , 01:22 PM

#429

2/325Falcon

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OH SNAP!

05-20-2012 , 01:35 PM

#430

ikestoys

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Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

Yeah, stand your ground has nothing to do with this case. Zimmerman's claim is that Martin had him pinned to the ground and was pouding his face. There's nowhere to retreat there and standard self defense applies. But hey, go with ZOMG HE SHOT SOMEBODY instead of he shot an assailant. Sounds better.

05-20-2012 , 01:37 PM

#431

General Tsao

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Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

Jesus Christ, he killed someone. Is there "out of control vigilante" behavior worse than SHOOTING UNARMED INNOCENT PEOPLE?

I know Trayvon was a black, but have some ****ing humanity.

lol, fly goes straight back to calling posters racist.

05-20-2012 , 01:44 PM

#432

Low Key

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ikestoys

fyp

Quote:

Originally Posted by NeBlis

read the thread and all of the coverage. The position is basically that Zimmerman was an out of control vigilante because he had a gun. And that suporters of gun rights and stand your ground laws are lusting for shootouts in the street and a license to murder black babies.

I mean, he was out of control. Him having a gun had nothing to do with that. I think him being out of control was probably a good reason for him to not have a gun in the first place.

But he could have been out of control with just his fists, or a baseball bat, or a board with a nail in it, or a larger board with an even bigger nail in it. Either way, when you go hunting people down while the police are asking you to stop, it does make you seem like you have control issues.

05-20-2012 , 01:58 PM

#433

FlyWf

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Quote:

Originally Posted by General Tsao

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story...1#.T7km30UgOCY

Well, my reads aren't always perfect, I'll take batting .500 tho.

I guess I had forgotten about this because Obama has done, oh, nothing on any of those issues in the three years since that statement by Holder?

05-20-2012 , 02:05 PM

#434

Money2Burn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ikestoys

Didn't stand your ground change something with the arrest requirements in self defense situations?

05-20-2012 , 02:10 PM

#435

Trolly McTrollolol

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Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

I did forget unnecessary capitalization of racial identifiers, which is probably still #1.

I don't get it. Aren't they usually capitalized? Like Asian, Hispanic, etc? If someone capitalizes Black, that's just crappy grammar 9/10 times.

05-20-2012 , 02:15 PM

#436

suzzer99

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another youtube fight turned tragic

05-20-2012 , 03:49 PM

#437

MrWookie

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You people. Take this to the Trayvon thread.

05-20-2012 , 04:37 PM

#438

LirvA

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What do you mean you people?

05-20-2012 , 05:14 PM

#439

pvn

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Don't worry, LirvA, we know you're one of the good ones.

05-20-2012 , 05:16 PM

#440

pvn

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Meanwhile in Wisconsin

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1522328.html

Quote:

So Greer and her family visited a series of ATMs, and on March 1, she brought the money to the jail, thinking she'd be taking Joel Greer home. But she left without her money, or her son.

care to guess what happened?

05-20-2012 , 05:20 PM

#441

Brons

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Yeah, I read that story. I don't understand how police officers like that sleep at night.

05-20-2012 , 05:23 PM

#442

LirvA

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That's sickening.

05-20-2012 , 05:29 PM

#443

General Tsao

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Originally Posted by pvn

Meanwhile in Wisconsin

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1522328.html

care to guess what happened?

yeah but if we didn't have government this would be happening ALL the time, so it's really a plus.

05-20-2012 , 05:30 PM

#444

Trolly McTrollolol

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In addition to increasing skepticism over the use of drug-sniffing dogs, studies have consistently shown that most U.S. currency contains traces of cocaine. In a 1994 ruling, for example, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals cited studies showing that 75 percent of U.S. currency in Los Angeles included traces of narcotics. In 2009, researchers at the University of Massachusetts analyzed 234 bills collected from 18 cities, and found that 90 percent contained traces of cocaine. A 2008 study published in the Trends in Analytical Chemistry came to similar conclusions, as have studies by the Federal Reserve and the Argonne National Laboratory.

90%? Man, cocaine dealers need to wash their hands more often or something.