Wrong on all counts. Let me correct you then.
No, I do not agree, and I have told you so before and I explained why. You seem to believe that owning a gun reduces your rights, which is false.
You have every right to defend yourself as per your state laws but you automatically lose that right to self-defense if you willfully put yourself in potentially dangerous situation. If you have a habit of willfully putting yourself in danger, then why not be a cop?
I fail to see any logic in getting into unnecessary confrontation especially when nothing happened in the first place. Why would you do that? Mind your own business. Every citizen has a right to privacy and peace without fear. They do not need to explain themselves to any paranoid person. In fact, they have a right to defend themselves when they get confronted by a paranoid armed person so why turn it into a Wild West when that person is not doing anything wrong? Just because he looks suspicious doesn't mean he's committing a crime. You should be minding your own business.
The only reason for an armed citizen willfully putting himself in danger is this -"come on. give me a reason to shoot you".
Neighbors have the right to ask strangers in the neighborhood what they are doing. That right doesn't change just because they also carry a legal weapon. I think that's being a good neighbor, not a bad citizen.
And a person has a right to privacy and peace without fear. Why don't you mind your own business if that person isn't committing any crime or disturbing the peace?
What would prompt you to ask a stranger what they're doing? What qualifies suspicion? their skin color? the way they dressed? the way they walked?
Also, you are assuming facts not in evidence, we do not know if Zimmerman confronted Trayvon or not.
What do you think what Zimmerman intended to do after getting out of his car?
It's also silly. You cannot make blanket statements about what a person should 'never' do, regardless of whether he is carrying a legal weapon or not.
no I didn't make a blanket statement. I'm getting it from state laws regarding self-defense on what you can do and what you can't do.
You do not always know what is or is not a 'dangerous' situation until too late.
there's a difference between calling 911 to report a suspicious person and getting mugged. It's pretty obvious that if you're calling 911, then it must be potentially dangerous. Getting involved makes no sense. The law doesn't give you a license to kill.
And what one person thinks is obviously a dangerous situation, another person would not agree with. It's just your opinion that keeping an eye on a stranger in the neighborhood is 'dangerous.' I disagree.
Prosecutors disagree. That's why Zimmerman was arrested.
Attitudes like yours are behind the disgraceful situations where people are raped or murdered in public while their screams for help were ignored by people who believed they should never put themselves "in a potentially dangerous situation where somebody could get hurt or killed".
You are gravely gravely confused. Let me help you then. There's a difference between a crime that DID actually happen and a crime that NEVER happened.
Trayvon didn't commit any crime.... therefore there's no reason for Zimmerman to confront him.
My husband has a concealed weapon permit precisely so that he can defend the defenseless, not so he can run away and hide from a potentially dangerous situation just in case somebody gets hurt. He carries a weapon to make sure that innocent people do not get hurt.
I have a serious problem with armed citizen with a cop-wannabe mentality. Those kind of people are much more despicable than thugs who prey on weak people. I hope he doesn't have a cop-wannabe mentality. It's despicable.
Since your husband has a CCW permit precisely for a reason to defend the defenseless.... so why don't your husband be a cop then? As a cop, he would have legal authority and badge to confront any suspicious person and that would be his job to defend the defenseless. But since he's just a citizen... as a citizen, it's citizen's duty is to report any suspicious person to cop... not get involved and act like a cop.
If somebody's live is in danger and your husband is witnessing a crime in progress, I have no problem with him saving them but on most cases, police strongly advise against this because people can get hurt when a criminal with a gun had no intention to kill anybody but that can change if he saw your husband with a gun.
plus this can create a massive confusion where your husband could be mistakenly identified as a shooter and can get shot by another armed citizen or off-duty cop or responding officers.
I too have a concealed weapon permit and I have a great deal of self-defense training in weapons. and I'm a firm believer of Stand Your Ground law. I don't think it would end quite nicely if he confronted me especially when I didn't commit any crime and when I was just minding my own business. I could have mistaken him as a mugger or crazed mentally-ill person so I'm entitled to rights to defend myself from a paranoid armed person confronting me. I know what behavior and posture that an armed person would show in a potentially hostile situation. Or maybe I felt very fearful of my life because he's acting all hostile on me and he may be twice bigger than me. So why create unnecessary confrontation? nobody should ever have to die or get hurt over misunderstanding.
once upon a time in this country neighbors looked out for each other, and crime rates were much lower.
Sounds like you prefer a Charles Bronson style. Despicable.
