Let's talk about Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and how unbelievably fucked up this all is

geraldo needs to launch a new line of safety clothes for urban youths

red and white butcher stripe coats and straw boater hats and comedy moustaches, b/c looking like an olde-timey barbershop tenor won't get you shot

open season on bill belichick

fuck i read that shirt post and started tearing up.

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/files/original/oreilly_geraldo_mets_051807.jpg

VERY SUSPICIOUS

acting kind of crazy

why is he wearing glasses from a head shop

looks high

/!\ALERT/!\ hoodies can get your kid killed /!\ALERT/!\

http://publicspaceone.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/geraldo5.jpg

Does this mean we can shoot him?

xpost

stand your ground

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQOg2HaB1Xc

that was the best geraldo ever

i don't understand why geraldo is famous and morton downey jr isn't

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1cge8Y9511qz5ew6o1_r1_500.png

so we had a chance to push him into the ocean and missed it

http://c498390.r90.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/geraldo.jpg

u.s. ama

http://carrielikethemovie.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/rico.jpg?w=300&h=200p

Oh, wait, you weren't looking for me? My bad.

Holla if you change your mind.

welp, the 'alternative'-view articles are starting to circulate, a little later than expected.

(I sure as hell ain't posting any of them here though).

the most I'll say is, all of them spend an inordinate time building up an equation that, even if it weren't flawed in design, doesn't even spit out the conclusion it would need to in order to have any merit.

also btw, there's a rumor floating around taht he was on suspension from school during the shooting, implying he was 'violent' and that's why he got suspended.

the suspension...was for tardiness from school (http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/03/23/trayvon-martin-never-picked-fight-friends-say/). Way to inadvertently prove your own racism, dudes who spread that rumor!

latino.foxnews.com

u sayin that site looks 'suspicious'?

looking forward to jew.foxnews.com, etc, that's all

dudewithawkwardcrewcut.foxnews.com

all i hear about is "whys nobody demonstrating about the white boy that got set on fire?!?!?"

the roger adulterys of the world

i can't stop thinking about this though

i can see the logic behind a lot of ... well, maybe some right-wing positions ... but the one i could never really get behind was anti-gun control

i never understood what you'd want a gun for, really, if you weren't living by yourself out in the woods, and even then ... really?

hope this is the tipping point here

most anti-gun control stems from 80's right wing paranoia in which people insisted gun registration could lead to gun confiscation if a totalitarian government ever took over and they would be left defenseless.

You can really blame one scene in Red Dawn for that.

i never understood what you'd want a gun for, really, if you weren't living by yourself out in the woods, and even then ... really?

hope this is the tipping point here

It won't be because the debate now is about Stand Your Ground.

I was sort of hoping the debate would be exactly how many decades of sentencing for zimmerman.

The more I think of it, the more I can't believe that stupid Stand Your Ground law was passed. So let's say I see someone ... suspicious. I have a right to follow them (nothing illegal about that). But the person I'm following may be rightly suspicious, maybe even threatened, and if they're threatened ... they have the right to try and kill me? But if they try to kill me, even though I'm doing nothing illegal, than I'm being threatened myself, and I have the right ... to kill them? That is, wouldn't anyone on the killing end of some Stand Your Ground nut be within their rights to try and kill (er, defend) back? It's like a feedback loop of justifiable homicide.

Or am I missing some nuance?

#NRA

lawfullyarmed dot com

The more I think of it, the more I can't believe that stupid Stand Your Ground law was passed. So let's say I see someone ... suspicious. I have a right to follow them (nothing illegal about that). But the person I'm following may be rightly suspicious, maybe even threatened, and if they're threatened ... they have the right to try and kill me? But if they try to kill me, even though I'm doing nothing illegal, than I'm being threatened myself, and I have the right ... to kill them? That is, wouldn't anyone on the killing end of some Stand Your Ground nut be within their rights to try and kill (er, defend) back? It's like a feedback loop of justifiable homicide.

Or am I missing some nuance?

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, March 23, 2012 9:03 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think the secret purpose of the law was to depopulate florida so that it can return to its natural state. environmentalists IIRC.

poorly formed joek

I suggest we avoid yet another gun control derail on this thread, although I think the Stand Your Ground law is fair game here.

I'd be happy to talk about how my mom needs to use single-shot .22 rifles to keep groundhogs and deer out of her garden on the Gun Control thread, oh but wait most of ILX doesn't have a fucking clue about anything that happens in a non-metropolitan area so I think I'll pass. Handguns are evil and should be banned fwiw.

lol

needs it! think of the flowers!

who itt was wresting sleeve's mom's .22 from her?? my own mom relies on an electrified fence, but i'm pretty sure sleeve's mom will be safe from whatever the ramifications of the trayvon martin case turn out to be.

fuckin groundhog apocalypse i'm sure

your mom is cold

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/04/soul-hamsters-630.jpg

wonder which one sleeve's mom would shoot

it's awesome that she's an organic subsistence farmer tho

my former brother in law raised his kids on an organic farm in the mountains. their six goats got eated by a mt lion, too bad he wasn't packing at the time but good news is herrifs deputies got it while they was holed up in de yurt

sorry abt the typos, I'm typing on a phone while driving a prius thru a drive thru starbucks in a whole foods parking lot in a skyscraper