Why I am reminded to avoid political threads on the Internet now...

[Mr Khan]

badgenome said:

Mr Khan said:

Because the NRA isn't frantically trying to justify the 40-something shootings on the South Side of Chicago? The Black community has made efforts against black-on-black violence, but what it really amounts to in the end is poverty. In this case there's an element of preventability if Florida wasn't trying to make itself into the mythic version of the Old West (because hey, in the actual Old West, you had to check your rifles at the entrance to town. Back then they had this crazy idea that guns killed people).

Yeah. The usual suspects in the outrage industry definitely waited for the NRA to weigh in on the matter before sounding off on it. That's what Al Sharpton is known for, after all: waiting and seeing before losing his fucking shit delivering a measured response.

I'm not sure why you think this was preventable when violence on the South Side isn't. If Chicago has been unable to control gun violence with its unconstitutional gun control laws, what hope does Florida have?

The point is that there is the idea that this particular incident was preventable, because it is likely that Zimmermann would not have used deadly force if he hadn't thought the law was on his side. Though he seems like the kind of person prone to abuse of power, so he may have done so anyway and just come up with some other statute that he thought was applicable, because it's fairly clear even under stand your ground that he started this altercation, so who knows...