Overheard in an IRC channel…

By | July 13, 2013

Person A:  It’s common fucking sense.  we’re defending a moron that
created a situation that led to the death of a possibly
innocent person.  if he hadn’t followed martin, if he hadn’t
gotten out of his vehicle would this have happened?

Person B:  Yeah, but you’re framing the events of the evening in
too short a frame.  Oddball, I assume, goes everywhere
with his handgun concealed on his person.  If he got
out of his car with his handgun, you’re making the
assumption that he started a confrontation

You can probably guess the context (hint: a high profile case in Florida).  The important part to me is that this is a wonderful example of why you shouldn’t cause people to think of you as “the asshole with guns.”  Me being considered generally a good guy has caused someone to use me as an example to show that the idea that a guy that carries is looking for trouble is a false assumption.

Of course, Person B still thinks that Zimmerman is guilty, but due to a bit more reasonable argument than “he got out of the car when the 911 operator told him not to.”

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