Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - Zimmerman prosecution looking incompetent.
View Single Post
 
Old 04-21-2012, 10:45 PM
RichieLion's Avatar
RichieLion RichieLion is offline
Sage
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: grew up in NYC and lived my adult life in Northern NJ; and now a resident of TV in Bonita
Posts: 5,997
Thanks: 0
Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post
Send a message via AIM to RichieLion
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by rp001 View Post
It's a case of a wannabe cop/hero sticking his nose into the wrong place one too many times...He was called out, got into a fight and was getting his ass kicked..He pulled a gun and did the kid in..Laws broken? Who knows..
Quote:
Originally Posted by Posh 08 View Post
In Virginia, you bet.
So in Virginia, if you're getting your head slammed into the sidewalk by an otherwise unarmed assailant, you could not defend yourself with a weapon?

Isn't the concrete sidewalk technically a weapon in a case like this?
__________________
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania (1759)