- Banned
- #421
About 1/3 of Americans do not support the death penalty for convicted murders. Why? I don't know for sure but many certainly because of the lack of any reliable process to ascertain guilt.
GZ imposed the death penalty on TM, with a great deal less certainty than our court system would have, for unspecified crimes. Whatever he judged TM's crimes to be, they didn't even hurt George. He left the scene unscathed.
I think that it's an interesting insight on our culture that so many here want to declare George a hero for that act.
He could have easily avoided the entire situation by doing as the experts advised him. Stay in the car. He avoided that advice because he thought that "they" had gotten away with "it" too many times.
Who are "they", what is "it", and what right had he to declare himself police, judge, jury, and executioner?
With no real witnesses other than himself it was pretty easy for the defense to create reasonable doubt about the details. That outcome is very, very common with Florida's stand your ground culture and laws. The sunshine state has what they wanted. Frontier justice. People free to kill others for annoying them.
George is no hero. He's a red neck racist who needed to carry a gun to feel like a man.
TM was also not a hero. But he was free to be walking the street when and where he was.
GZ imposed the death penalty on TM, with a great deal less certainty than our court system would have, for unspecified crimes. Whatever he judged TM's crimes to be, they didn't even hurt George. He left the scene unscathed.
I think that it's an interesting insight on our culture that so many here want to declare George a hero for that act.
He could have easily avoided the entire situation by doing as the experts advised him. Stay in the car. He avoided that advice because he thought that "they" had gotten away with "it" too many times.
Who are "they", what is "it", and what right had he to declare himself police, judge, jury, and executioner?
With no real witnesses other than himself it was pretty easy for the defense to create reasonable doubt about the details. That outcome is very, very common with Florida's stand your ground culture and laws. The sunshine state has what they wanted. Frontier justice. People free to kill others for annoying them.
George is no hero. He's a red neck racist who needed to carry a gun to feel like a man.
TM was also not a hero. But he was free to be walking the street when and where he was.