soooooooo.....when one reads the part that says : * Any person carrying a firearm or in possession of a concealed weapon of any type, must openly identify this fact to anyone with whom they engage in confrontation......................................................................
Makes one wonder while they are at it, wouldn't open carry resolve that issue ?
"One million educated black men". Is this a race issue again?
So...the old fart who tried to act up on me in the grocery store is going to react well when I look his shriveled old ass in the eye and say "The law requires that I warn you that I am armed"? I think this meets the legal definition of assault; threat of bodily harm and the means to do so.
So where is the link to this "rule" being considered. Or is someone stirring the pot?
I think he might have. Don't think there was time though. Not that I would advocate saying anything anyway. Certainly not just for talking or even arguing. This whole affair certainly seems to make a case for open carry though. I doubt tm would have approached at all had open carry been in play.It also takes away the reason for carrying concealed and, if showing concealed firearm, it may become "brandishing" which in most states is illegal. Who really thinks Trayvon would have backed off if Zimmerman said he had a firearm?
Zimmerman supposedly did not confront Martin and was surprised when Martin approached him, initiated the conflict and demanded to know why he was following him.
Wouldn't this not apply in Zimmerman's case? He was observing Martin on the phone with Dispatch. If his story is true, and the jury did believe it. He was walking back to his truck when Martin confronted him. The initiator of the confrontation would therefore be Martin? Or am I way off?
The more I think about that so called rule, the less sense it makes, not that it made much sense to begin with. It doesn't take much imagination to think through a scenario where this "rule" would do nothing other than make the victim a criminal. If you look out the window and see somebody breaking into your car, you would have to call 911 and let them get away because if you go out to stop them, you have initiated the confrontation.
What ever it takes to protect the freeloading criminal class I guess.
Although par for the leftist discourse, a ridiculous suggestion (the rule), which as articulated doesn't even apply to the Zimmerman case...like most other arguments against his actions, supposed, fabricated, and actual.
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"One million educated black men". Is this a race issue again?
I think he might have been hoping for larger and more wide-scale riots. Would have been the perfect time to begin implementing his marital-law plan.First - this would never pass any legal test for many reasons, a lot mentioned on here already (especially the assault definition)
Second - I've said before that the powers that be knew they had no hope of ever winning the TM/GZ case. That was their intent. Stir the pot, divide the country and try to use this to take away guns. The prez said it in his first speech after the verdict.
I think he might have been hoping for larger and more wide-scale riots. Would have been the perfect time to begin implementing his marital-law plan.