Obama asked that we consider that if Martin had had a gun the night George shot him would he have been justified
in shooting George because George frighten him. The answer is easy,
not until and unless George had put him in reasonable fear of his
death or great bodily harm. Then and only then would Martin be
justified in shooting George, and to have someone following you does
not justify that fear.
He also, as have other, asked did bot
Martin have the right to stand his ground? Sure, if George had been
walking very slow through his neighborhood in a driving rain and
after asking George what he was doing there, and George commence to
beat the hell out of him then he would sure have the right to shoot
George to save his life.
A lot has been made of Martin having a
right to walk through George's neighborhood. No argument, he did, I
have read of no trespass violations. Conversely George had a right to
be suspicious of his behavior, e.g., taking a slow walk in the
driving rain, cutting between apartments, looking through windows.
This is why George called the police, because of suspicious actions.
You can argue whether it was wise or
not for George to follow Martin, but in doing so he broke no law, not
even when the dispatch told him that they did need for him to do
that. Then the Dispatch asked for an address and George went to look
for according to testimony. Some take this as disingenuous on
George's part, his own neighborhood and he did not know the name of
the street. To this I can speak of first hand, I do not know the
name of the second street north of my house. I know people who live
on it, and drive on it often, but I do not know its name. Also I
have been out looking for an address and have asked people who had no
idea that the street was just a block over.
Now the issue has morphed into a drive
to end the so called Stand Your Ground laws in all the stated that
have enacted them. Stand you ground is a euphemism for having no
duty to retreat and a reasonable fear of death or great bodily harm
justify the use of lethal force without having to show that you did
everything in your power to get away from your aggressor before you
used that lethal force. In my opinion this is another example of
never letting good crisis go to wast even if you have to create it.
George did not use the Stand Your Ground law a defense, it was not
brought up in the trial. After the trial one off the juries
mentioned it in an interview on CNN, and the Progressives have
grabbed it and ran with it. No Black child is safe as long as there
are Stand Your Ground laws in any state.
Which leads me to my last point in this
post, Martin as a child. He was 17 years old, not a child in
anyone's eyes other than a mother. The day I turned 17 I enlisted
with the United Stated Marines Corps, and I assure you that they did
not treat me as a child. They gave me gun, strike that, a rifle and
thought me how to use it, and in that same year I was helping impose
the blockade of Cuba sailing around Cat Island on the USS Boxer fully
expecting that we were going to invade Cuba. Half of the Marines on
the ship were 17 and 18 year olds. Child, I don't think so. and I assure you that we has stormed the beaches Castro's army would not have mistaken us as children.
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