SoutherDem
SoutherDem's JournalWhat laws should we change/create, which will stop a future George Zimmerman?
Change Stand Your Ground to Duty to Retreat? Wouldn’t that have applied to Trayvon Martin too? If the jury was told the 2006 law wouldn’t the question have been why didn’t they both retreat?
The only eyewitness saw Trayvon Martin on top in the fight, so wouldn’t the out come be the same?
How do you write a law which would protect Trayvon Martin from George Zimmerman?
Question about Neighborhood Watch Programs
How organized are they? Do they normally take turns patrolling the neighborhood? My father is "president" of his neighborhood watch which means nothing. He was the one who got the neighbors to participate. They never meet, they don't patrol, they don't follow any suspicious people. They simply call the police if they see someone acting suspicious.
When they had their first and only meeting it was with the Chief of Police who instructed them no not follow anyone, simply call the police with as much information as possible, description of the person, cars being driven and if you are just suspicious or if something is really happening.
What is normal?
Innocent vs. Not Guilty
I am not a lawyer, so I have always used those terms interchangeably. I think of one as the legal term while the other is a common non-legal term.
When a major trial is being close to ending I will see someone make a post using the wrong term and they are corrected multiple times.
When I have read the two definitions they seem so close they could be interchanged. But, innocent does seem to be more general, as to the religious meaning free from all guilt, but that aspect seems to disappear when you move from the religious, while not guilty seems to be more specific to a specific event.
I remember similar arguments to acquitted vs not guilty.
Can someone help me with the real differences and why people get so upset when the terms acquitted, not guilty and innocent are used interchangeably?
Zimmerman verdict?
Well the trial is almost over soon the jury will make a decision and we will have an answer. It may nor not be the answer a person wants and for sure about half of the people who are interested will feel justice has been served and the rest will feel a great injustice has occurred, no matter the verdict.
If by chance the verdict is mistrial then this will happen all over again and if Zimmerman is convicted there will be an appeal, so we may be hearing about this for a long time.
End results no matter how the jury decides there will be controversy.
I for one do not envy the job they have before them.
This might have been discussed before, but I was just wondering...
Any post on the subject of guns can only be posted in two areas, the Gun Control Reform Activism Group and the Gun Control & RKBA Group. Right?
But the Gun Control Reform Activism Group is more sterile than most operating rooms. Even be misunderstood as a Pro-gun/Pro-2nd Amendment person and your post will be removed, alerted or you will be band from the group. Right?
So that leaves the Gun Control & RKBA Group. Right?
The Gun Control & RKBA Group allows frank and even heated discussions on the subject. Right?
But the Gun Control & RKBA Group has a few regular posters whose goal seems to just antagonize anyone who is Pro-gun/Pro-2nd Amendment without any real want to discuss anything, to the point the goal is to get us to cross the line and be alerted on and our posts removed. Right?
So my question is if Pro-gun/Pro-2nd Amendments members of DU can't carry on a discussion on the subject without being verbally attacked with the risk of being alerted on if we respond in kind, is it time for a 3rd Group one that is the RKAB Activism Group?
Just wondering.
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