Blacks Who Stand Their Ground Often Imprisoned

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75. "Swallow your fucking pride and walk away." If only.

There's the problem. THIS ^^^^^^^ !!!

Any wonder why so many of us (probably vast majority female) here on DU and elsewhere immediately go to the gun-as-penis analogy. Can't help it. It just seems incredibly and glaringly obvious to me. Overcompensation. And in Zimbo's case, when you have a soft, flabby, reckless, cowardly weasel who claims it's he himself who's screaming like a little girl when claiming he was in fear of his life, clings to that frickin' gun, has a record (unfortunately not presented in court) of using brute force and/or brute strength to "settle" disputes or assert dominance, and plays pretend-cop when he's found unacceptable as real police material... Can't overpower an opponent with the MMA coaching on which he's spent HOURS, what was it - three days a week? What's he doing in all that time, drawing pictures of it? And he can't overpower an opponent and hold him there while waiting for police - he has to settle it once and for all, with a totally arbitrary excuse, banking on "it's his word against mine, and dead men tell no tales"?

I mean, think about it. Where else could you go to try to explain that, than directly to pathological, anti-social, and in this case CRIMINAL overcompensation?

Mind you, I AM NO SHRINK!

Even so, I think this guy is such a psychological MESS that IMO he can very much indeed be expected to strike again. He won't be able to stop himself, because he can't help it. It's just part of the genuinely damaged being he presently is. I don't know if he got that way specifically by external treatment or factors not in his control when he was younger, or whether that's just what's been in him from the beginning. But I think he's gonna get himself in trouble again. Just like O.J. did. O.J. beat the rap, too, but he's still gonna stay in prison to the end of his days. Because he proved to be the kind of individual who either can't, or won't, stay out of trouble. Either within himself or because he's always drawn to troublesome people or conditions. And, same as with O.J., at least before his last misadventure in Las Vegas not too many years back, I suspect Zimbo has a sense of renewed and enhanced entitlement. A jury just said what he did was okay. Not a problem at all. We'll buy the "self-defense" thing. Free to go, son. Nothing more to see here. Everyone move along now. Seems to me that also enhances his chances of being involved in another calamity. He's now been shown that he can do something like that and get a pass. I can imagine feeling pretty damn cocky after coming out on top of that one. And that can make you get sloppy - and fuck up.