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Originally Posted by Case Closed
It's the only inference I can draw from your posts. I don't know what to say. Why else would you attack murder victim like this? This is such an obvious situation that if it was presented to you as an hypothetical it would be absurd because there is only one way to respond to this.
OK I guess I can see how you would think that but your completely wrong.
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The cops failed and this poor kid was murdered in cold blood and your looking for the mistakes he made while running from a loony gunman.
Ok fair enough, and I agree. Look I realize that this is an emotional case etc etc. Lets take it from my point of view and maybe you will get a better understanding of where I'm coming from.
I live and work in an "urban" high crime area. My neighborhood is the root of southern hip hop and all the culture that that personifies and glorifies. People are assaulted and killed or maimed here all the time. Now I am on the edge of the worst parts but the 3 neighborhood to the north of me are in the top 10 most violent in the nation. I carry a gun everyday and train myself in self defense as much as is feasible.
Part of taking responsibility for your own safety involves going through numerous "what if" type scenarios. It changes your mindset on the world. What you see as paranoia I see as life skills. When something like this happens I go through it from all the angles. When I ask myself what I would have done if I were Zimmerman my answer is "nothing like what he did. When I ask myself what I would have done if I were Martin my answer is "not very much of what he did"
This case is all over forums related to guns, and came up yesterday in an army navy store where I was buying ammo for an old soviet rifle that I have. The consensus as I see it among the "gun community" is that this is a terrible tragedy, likely the fault of an idiot. Te questions we are asking are the same as yours, what happened and how could it have been avoided. I'm sorry if my thinking out loud offended you.