Awesome. Unfortunately, "House Cat" doesn't make cool patches, cool screen names on forums (I fucking hate, absolutely despise, the word "sheepdog" and as soon as I see it as a poster's name, I usually scroll right on by), or sound as cool in internet rants about what a bad mofo you are/intend to be.
TC and Mitchell made pretty much the checkmate posts in this thread (I assume this is the right term. I dunno, 'cuz sheepdogs know chess is gay, therefore I don't know anything about it).
Now Obama is involved.
I think that Zimmerman is up shits creek.
I'll bet I can name somebody who wishes like heck that he'd just stayed in his truck and Been A Good Witness right about now.
It's hard to think through all the possible externalities ahead of time, and sometimes you're just going to wind up stepping in front of that truck whether you want to or not, but it does make one think.
I had a friend once who bought a Chicom AK when they first started importing them. Folding spike bayonet and the works. He told me that when he was home from school, he kept it with a full mag, "just in case someone broke in". (He was, I guess, 18 or 19 at the time.)
Thing is, dude collected militaria. Mostly WWII. Some British, American, and Japanese stuff, but also a lot of German. Now he was no Nazi or anything, in fact, he was more of a hippie/beatnik type, but he just liked war stuff, and it caught him completely off guard when I asked him how the local paper would portray it if he ever shot a home intruder with a skin tone any darker than his own somewhat pale beige. With an AK. And had a swastika flag and a couple SS uniforms in the closet.
The evidence that I have seen "so far" makes me believe at this point Zimmerman has a big problem. Given the reaction to this shooting, I am scared of what is going to happen if after all the "Investigations" are complete and the decision is that Zimmerman is in the clear. Is the family and more importantly the community at large going to accept that decision or has public opinion gotten to the point we will see the LA/Miami riots all over again?
Scott
Only Hits Count - The Faster the Hit the more it Counts!!!!!!; DELIVER THE SHOT!
Stephen Hillier - "An amateur practices until he can do it right, a professional practices until he can't do it wrong."
Scott
Only Hits Count - The Faster the Hit the more it Counts!!!!!!; DELIVER THE SHOT!
Stephen Hillier - "An amateur practices until he can do it right, a professional practices until he can't do it wrong."
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Different situation. In the case of a break in to an occupied dweling the person in the house is in fear of his life. There are laws in the books even in places like NY & California that allow you to use deadly physical force to terminate the burglary of an occupied dwelling. I can find many cases of people who used AKs and ARs to shoot and even kill burglars/home invaders without suffering any consequences.
Collectors collect. The Axis souvenirs might have been problematic, but they don't abrogate a person's right to self defense nor make it legal people to burglarize or home invade them.
The person's actions and circumstances that led up to the shooting are more important. There are at least two cases of people who used SKS' to shoot someone who wound up facing murder charges. Both of them left the safety of their home with the SKS to confront someone who was not a direct threat to them and wound up shooting and killing that person. It wasn't the 'evil' gun that led to their trials but the questionable act of leaving the safety of their home to ocnfront someone who wasn't at the time a direct threat to them or anyone else.