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In reply to the discussion: the number of posts saying "this in no way is a defense of Zimmerman" is astounding [View all]Daemonaquila
(1,712 posts)The law ain't the problem. A racist murderer was the problem. When you get on your high horse and blame the law, you're giving him an excuse that "Oh, if only that lax law hadn't been passed, this might not have happened." Absolute rubbish - Zimmerman had a host of messages sent to him his whole life from institutional racism to hate speech by right-wing media. The vast majority of the population doesn't become murderous over it, and the likelihood of anyone tipping over the edge because of that silly law - which by the way IN NO WAY CAN BE INTERPRETED TO GIVE HIM AN OUT.
One person - Zimmerman - is at fault for acting on his most base, sick desire to blow away someone of the "wrong" race coming into "his" territory. He wasn't thinking about legal points, he was thinking about how good it would feel to pump lead into a black kid.