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In reply to the discussion: Already, another Trayvon Martin incident has just happened [View all]pipi_k
(21,020 posts)Damned right someone's going to assume someone is up to no good!
And I don't give a shit what color the trespasser is, which, as someone mentioned above, would be somewhat difficult to tell at that hour of the night, so it's possible the homeowner didn't even KNOW the kid was black.
Just about everyone in this thread is agreeing that shooting someone for trespassing is plain wrong.
What you are strongly suggesting, if not outright saying, is that people do NOT have the right to assume that someone on their property at 2 AM is up to no good.
OK, here's a good example that happened recently...one night the Mr and I are watching TV at around 8 PM. Not dark, but getting toward dusk, and there's a knocking on the living room window. We never saw them on the security cameras...the driveway alarm didn't go off. No idea who it could be...the Mr goes out to see what's up and I go to grab the shotgun (which is ALWAYS loaded with a blank cartridge...no real shells).
Well, it turns out to be a couple of (white) neighbors from down the road stopping by to tell us that they've seen big stands of Hogweed along the road.
WTF??? They couldn't put a note in the mailbox out by the road? They couldn't stop by the next day?
White. people.
I don't give a rat's ass what color they are...if they show up at my house at an odd time, they don't belong there unless it's to say the hill is on fire and we need to evacuate.