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Old 03-24-2012, 10:24 AM   #166
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Trayvon Martin

Go, go, go NRA
Why don't you want the process of investigation and due process to play out?
Your statements confirm that you have convicted this shooter.
Why don't you go to Florida and try to hang him?
Wow Merc !
Where did you get all that from "Go go go NRA"
Maybe a little bit of transference going on here ?
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Old 03-24-2012, 11:41 AM   #167
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sexobon: ... instead of enabling armed citizens to kill in the name of security, you enable doctors to kill in the name of convenience!

Happy Monkey: ... Trayvon Martin didn't ask to be "secured".

I used the concept of security referring to the person who did the shooting.
Right. Zimmerman did the shooting. Zimmerman killed in the name of security. Treyvon Martin was killed by Zimmerman. Of course I

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turned "secured" into a euphemism for being shot, apparently just to make a flippant connection to euthanasia.
Actually, you introduced the flippant between Treyvon Martin and euthanasia:
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sexobon: ... Perhaps if he had, he'd still be alive just like the person who claims to have secured himself from him. Duh.

Here, I returned to using the concept of security in my original relevant context...
( Zimmerman providing "security" for his neighborhood)
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... suggesting that if Trayvon Martin had asked Zimmerman (a neighborhood watch member) to protect [secure] him when they met, Trayvon Martin couldn't have been characterized as a threat and might still be alive today.
If he'd done what? Approached the armed man who's been following him around and asked him for protection from... what? Again, what are you on about?
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Old 03-24-2012, 12:13 PM   #168
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But how else would you represent a singular antecedent that is gender-neutral and indefinite when you want to use an anaphor that is bound by its antecedent?
Wow, that's not just a grammar Nazi talking, that's the whole Third Reich.

Kidding.
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Old 03-24-2012, 12:28 PM   #169
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It's more the intersection of grammar and engineering.
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Old 03-24-2012, 06:26 PM   #170
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Trayvon Martin

Go, go, go NRA
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Abortions increase.

Go, go, go, Democrats.
XoB reflected Lamplighter's method and format back at him to make this point:
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Could be, I have no Idea, and all the better, because the point was to make a statement as stupid as the one I quoted. ...
You missed that point and distracted from it by challenging the content thus going off on a tangent.
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I also reflected Lamplighter's method and format back at him to reiterate xoB's point. You missed the point again and went off on a tangent. Now it's been explained to you twice.
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Right. Zimmerman did the shooting. Zimmerman killed in the name of security. Treyvon Martin was killed by Zimmerman. Of course I

Actually, you introduced the flippant between Treyvon Martin and euthanasia: ...
All besides the point.

I know you as a contrarian more interested in antagonizing certain other personalities than in valid discussion and the type of person who will, to that end, even go so far as to present absurdities and suggest that it's what another person is implying just to bait them:
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( Zimmerman providing "security" for his neighborhood)If he'd done what? Approached the armed man who's been following him around and asked him for protection from... what? Again, what are you on about?
This is the last time I'm going to indulge you.

Even in States with concealed carry permits, brandishing a weapon is illegal. I've not seen evidence that this was done; or, that Martin had actually seen Zimmerman's weapon early on in their interaction. The stand your ground philosophy taken literally would have worked well for Martin as there was no need for him to approach Zimmerman whether Zimmerman was armed or not. That Florida is a concealed carry state was likely known to Martin; also, that Zimmerman could be armed. Martin might have been able to outrun Zimmerman; but, he couldn't outrun a bullet. Remaining in place and offering Zimmerman diffusing conversation was a viable option. Putting himself in a position of dependency by asking for Zimmerman's protection may have given Zimmerman the sense of control he needed to avoid his resorting to using a weapon. What did Martin need protection from?!!! Why his own emotions of course, Martin's fight or flight response was a contributing factor to his own death.

HM, this kind of in-depth discussion is generally of interest to men. Of what interest could it possibly be to you, Happy?
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Old 03-24-2012, 06:28 PM   #171
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But had he seen his doodle?
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Old 03-24-2012, 06:47 PM   #172
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And who had the biggest one?
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Old 03-24-2012, 06:54 PM   #173
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and did he brandish it?
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Old 03-24-2012, 06:58 PM   #174
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and was it licensed to kill (007")?
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Old 03-25-2012, 08:34 AM   #175
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Old 03-25-2012, 09:10 AM   #176
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Slowly it turns...

LA Times
Tina Susman and Molly Hennessy-Fiske
3/25/12

Trayvon Martin case sheds light on 'stand your ground' issues
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George Zimmerman has so far avoided arrest in the killing
of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by using Florida’s "stand your ground" defense,
but the case has forced even supporters of the statute to confront
what critics say are gaping holes that leave it open to wildly disparate interpretations.
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Old 03-25-2012, 12:16 PM   #177
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I repeat ...
This case is about some asswipe who stalked a kid, chased him down and then shot him after instigating the altercation.
Show me ANYTHING in the "Stand your Ground" law that covers that.
Using that law is an abuse of it, by his lawyer.
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Old 03-25-2012, 02:24 PM   #178
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... and to offer a little levity (not really)
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Old 03-25-2012, 05:10 PM   #179
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The "stand your ground" comes in when the police and/or DA don't think they can reasonably prove that Zimmerman didn't feel threatened. To a lot of us it's clear the police made a bad call, but they wouldn't have been able to make that (possibly racially biased) bad call if they didn't have a drastic standard of evidence to prove that Zimmerman didn't feel threatened - rather than Zimmerman having to show why HE felt threatened.
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Old 03-25-2012, 07:26 PM   #180
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To a lot of us it's clear the police made a bad call,
We don't even have all the facts yet.
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