Thread: George Zimmerman: Prelude to a shooting

Originally Posted by apdst

Common sense.

Wow.. You must be like GZ.. are you a mind reader?

Originally Posted by Boo Radley

I think you have really read closely.

Nope......

Originally Posted by apdst

Yep. I grew up there. During this time period:

JSTOR: The Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 80, No. 2 (Fall, 2001), pp. 198-224

Originally Posted by Boo Radley

At 53 they might worry about mental health. But i do walk a and often look scraggly.

Touche' in any case it would have worked if you were alot younger. White kids, and men get harrassed to when they portray themselves as criminals

Originally Posted by sharon

(Reuters) - A pit bull named Big Boi began menacing George and Shellie Zimmerman in the fall of 2009.

The first time the dog ran free and cornered Shellie in their gated community in Sanford, Florida, George called the owner to complain. The second time, Big Boi frightened his mother-in-law's dog. Zimmerman called Seminole County Animal Services and bought pepper spray. The third time he saw the dog on the loose, he called again. An officer came to the house, county records show.

"Don't use pepper spray," he told the Zimmermans, according to a friend. "It'll take two or three seconds to take effect, but a quarter second for the dog to jump you," he said.

"Get a gun."

That November, the Zimmermans completed firearms training at a local lodge and received concealed-weapons gun permits. In early December, another source close to them told Reuters, the couple bought a pair of guns. George picked a Kel-Tec PF-9 9mm handgun, a popular, lightweight weapon.

By June 2011, Zimmerman's attention had shifted from a loose pit bull to a wave of robberies that rattled the community, called the Retreat at Twin Lakes. The homeowners association asked him to launch a neighborhood watch, and Zimmerman would begin to carry the Kel-Tec on his regular, dog-walking patrol - a violation of neighborhood watch guidelines but not a crime.

Few of his closest neighbors knew he carried a gun - until two months ago.

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Your Point?

Originally Posted by Phoenix

Your Point?

You beat me to it...

Funny how the Martin supporters/anti-Zimmerman crowd have avoided this thread like it was the plague.

Originally Posted by Phoenix

A completely different viewpoint on who George Zimmerman is and where he came from.

Link HERE.

It's not a portrait of a racist man who was out to shoot a person for being black.

I agree, it was a well written article. The real problem as I see it, is that he had a gun and all too willing to follow somebody simply because he had the gun to protect himself. In a way, he became fearless because he had the gun.

Originally Posted by pbrauer

I agree, it was a well written article. The real problem as I see it, is that he had a gun and all too willing to follow somebody simply because he had the gun to protect himself. In a way, he became fearless because he had the gun.

This is nothing but assumption.

Originally Posted by Arbo

This is nothing but assumption.

More accurately, it's an opinion I expressed. Would you be more apt to follow someone if you had gun or didn't?

Originally Posted by pbrauer

More accurately, it's an opinion I expressed. Would you be more apt to follow someone if you had gun or didn't?

No, you are making an assumption that he would only follow someone because he had a gun. As if you know him and know what he is like and how he thinks.