re: #139 Obdicut

In retrospect, I probably was being an idiot the couple of times I followed suspicious characters, but I lived in an area of town where crime was very, very common. And I had a camera. It completely changes the equation when you go out armed.

Guns are important things. I defend 2nd amendment rights to own guns, and even the right to carry them if it’s needful. I do not the defend the right to carry guns without need, and there was no need, at all, for Zimmerman to leave his house while armed and pursue Trayvon. I think that, in itself, playing cop, should be criminalized.

That would also remove his SYG defense, since he’d be involved in a criminal act.

Don’t tell me you’ve been playing neighborhood watch on the West side? Shit, I’d never have got through Needle Park without my gallon of ice cream melting.