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Why George Zimmerman Got a Gun

Everybody's heard about George Zimmerman, but as a lengthy Reuters feature about him shows, we actually know very little about him and the community he patrolled as neighborhood watch captain. The story is probably the most we'll hear about Zimmerman until his trial on a second-degree murder charge gets underway.

Leading the new details in Chris Francescani's 2,650-word feature about Zimmerman's background, his family, his career, and his prior troubles with the law, is the story about how Zimmerman came to carry a gun. It started when a neighborhood dog, a pitbull named Big Boi, cornered his wife Shellie Zimmerman in their yard in the fall of 2009. George Zimmerman bought pepper spray, but when he called Seminole County Animal Services to complain about the dog, the officer who responded had this advice for him:

"Don't use pepper spray," he told the Zimmermans, according to a friend. "It'll take two or three seconds to take effect, but a quarter second for the dog to jump you," he said. "Get a gun."

After completing handgun training, both George and Shellie Zimmerman bought pistols, Francescani reports.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/04/why-george-zimmerman-got-gun/51579/

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Ok, so?

Are we saying because he wanted to protect himself from dogs, he therefore isn't allowed to protect himself from homosapiens?

Or are we saying that wanting to protect oneself from dogs is somehow wrong and unusual and makes him weird and therefore guilty ... of something?

Or are we just adding more irrelevant ####### to the already mile high pile of irrelevant ####### out there about this story?

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...are we just adding more irrelevant ####### to the already mile high pile of irrelevant ####### out there about this story?

But, he wanted to kill a dog that was doing what dogs do! That makes him evil! You don't shoot dogs just for being dogs! Why do you support the killing of innocent animals?

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But, he wanted to kill a dog that was doing what dogs do! That makes him evil! You don't shoot dogs just for being dogs! Why do you support the killing of innocent animals?

Innocence or guilt is irrelevant to the decision of whether one should kill an animal. It's a freaking animal.

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1.1 miles on the pile of irrelevant ####### . Be great to recycle it into something useful ;)

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Ok, so?

Are we saying because he wanted to protect himself from dogs, he therefore isn't allowed to protect himself from homosapiens?

Or are we saying that wanting to protect oneself from dogs is somehow wrong and unusual and makes him weird and therefore guilty ... of something?

Or are we just adding more irrelevant ####### to the already mile high pile of irrelevant ####### out there about this story?

if the dog was being a dog it would also be able to "stay on the porch" ... and give someone the look that says "you leave me alone ... i'll leave you alone"

when the dog becomes aggressive and the owner doesn't restrain the animal ... well the options get narrowed down quite quickly and in the end ... the dog will not be top dog ...

 

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