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Gun-Crazy Right Wing Howls for Bob Costas to Be Fired

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palomino12/04/2012 9:27:18 am PST

re: #559 Targetpractice

If you get mugged in the middle of the night, fight back and kill your aggressor, do you believe that you should be tried for second degree murder on the grounds that by walking out at night, you put yourself in that situation?

That mischaracterizes what happened. Zim got out of his truck with a loaded gun while pursuing someone for no legitimate reason. That’s hardly the same as just being “mugged at night.” Bottom line: Reasonable, sane people don’t play pretend cop, and they sure as hell don’t do what Zim did. If he’d stayed in his car, or not followed a non-suspect, we wouldn’t be having this debate.

This doesn’t necessarily make him guilty of 2nd degree murder. But it makes him a sorry excuse for a human being, as well as a perfect example of what’s wrong with America’s gun culture.