This post makes me want to throw up.
The deceased young man did not have a juvenile police record. None.
That means he was gunned down in the street without ever having been arrested for a crime, and you think this is OK? Would you say the same if someone had gunned down your son after an altercation resulted because your son was chased by a beefy 28 year old with a gun who thought your son was a “real suspicious-looking guy”? How can you post this way, knowing that if the same thing had happened to your son as happened to Trayvon Martin, the whole internet would be clucking clucking clucking with “aha, single mother, no dad around, his parents obviously didn’t value marriage…
well, what do you expect from a family life like that?” Yeah, you ought to be hugging your son, because this wasn’t him.
As for Trayvon’s marijauna use,
in a 2010 survey of 46,482 students in a nationally representative sample of 396 public and private schools,
21.4 percent of high school seniors used marijuana in the past 30 days. Over 40% of these minors had used alcohol in the last month and over 20% admitted to binge drinking (more than 5 drinks at a time) in the past month. Non-medical use of Vicodin, oxycontin, and adderal were also between 5-10%. (This was an NIH survey:
drugabuse.gov/publications/infofacts/high-school-youth-trends)
I think it is pretty safe to say that that odds are NOT that 21% of American high school students are going to wind up “dead or in prison”!! I would also wager that you know some very good parents whose kids used (or are using) marijauna in high school, and even in 8th grade…I’m talking deacons, police officers, school principals, backbones of parishes. I know homeschooled kids who became alcoholics before they had barely gotten college started. If you think that cannot possibly be you or your family, think again.
If you don’t think Trayvon Martin’s parents wouldn’t rather be dead themselves than have lost their son this way, I think you have no heart. Either that or you are just too arrogant to realize that very good parents can have children who experiment with drugs and underage drinking.
Unarmed people don’t deserve to get chased or shot for walking in strange neighborhoods. I’m not saying it is impossible that Zimmerman will be found to have acted within the boundaries of existing Florida law, because the law gives a lot of latitude for “self defense”. I am saying it is not a lot to ask that people who shoot other people without witnesses be put under arrest until a judge or at least a DA decides it is safe to have them back out “on patrol”. That should not be a police decision.
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