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Originally Posted by Parker
Zimmerman might never have carried a gun that fateful evening if our justice system wasn't so ineffective at removing criminals from our streets. When I was young, violent people were in jail or were afraid enough of getting caught that they didn't commit the crimes in the first place. Now, everyone gets probation, or insignificant jail time, or early release due to overcrowding of the prisons, or have their charges dropped entirely. Now criminals don't appear to be in the much afraid of getting caught.
All this has led to law-abiding people feeling the need to protect themselves and their neighborhoods. I don't think Zimmerman is a bad guy, just a guy who was trying to protect his neighborhood, and made some poor decisions in that effort. Why are we not all outraged that so many criminals run the streets? Maybe Trayvon would be alive today if we weren't all so concerned about our safety that we feel we have to rely on ourselves for protection.
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I agree totally with all that you have posted above.
We were actually raised in a city. We often recollect how as kids, our parents never warned us not to walk around our city......we did it all the time, totally unharmed. That was the 1950's.
When my mom went back to work, she had to walk to work through some pretty seedy neighborhoods with taverns, etc. and guys loitering outside.
She got out at midnight and had to retrace her steps back home.......
No one ever bothered her. She was a very petite attractive young lady.
My dad couldn't go and get her as he had to watch the children, who were sleeping at midnight.
The bar crowd seemed to know better. They never bothered anyone.
They feared the law back in those days.
Things have changed. We have young family members who live in and around college towns in North Carolina, etc. and other southern states.
The newspapers always show how young coeds are kidnapped, raped, murdered, etc.............a totally different world. And, there is no reverse discrimination to cry out against their perpetrators.
Just like in Egypt, where they are constantly protesting and rioting.....
its the squeaky wheel gets the grease..........
There is no rioting in our streets when a young coed gets attacked.
Everyone is afraid to speak up nowadays..........
With all the "smash and grab" robberies in jewelry stores all over our country, esp. when the gold prices soared.......my husband felt safer "packing a gun" as no doubt George Zimmerman did.
The questionables "from the cities" would case our store....walking around looking in the cases, but as soon as they saw the video cameras, they would hastily leave.
On the national "videos" of the smash and grab looters.......they all looked the same and fit the "gang profile" in dress, etc.
We never had our heads in the sand........although, if truth be told, we never thought our beloved adopted state would be so infiltrated by crime from "away". Luckily, they stand out like sore thumbs up here and luckily we have a young Dad who is the police chief.....a man proud of his town and wanting to keep it the way it was........as do all the detectives up and down our state.