This is why we all cant have guns.

[Burnout18]

http://www.wftv.com/news/news/family...-leader/nLNq9/

Kid goes to a store, ends up getting shot in a gated community... By overzealous neighborhood watch. Poor kid killed.

Not everyone has the mental capacity and decision making processes that trained soldiers or police have.

Seriously. Neighborhood watch.

[abbott]

no one in jail, that is bull shit.

[Helvete]

He asked for it.

[Randetica]

barely anyone here owns shooting guns

stop living in the barbarian past!

[Turchinator]

Originally Posted by Helvete

He asked for it.

he was asking to be shot and killed by a 26 year old Neigbhorhood Watchman for walking in his family's gated neighborhood with a bag of Skittles?

please, do tell.

[Sir SkratchaLot]

What was he wearing?

[Burnout18]

Originally Posted by abbott

no one in jail, that is bull shit.

I know. What the fuck. This murder. Kid has skittles and tea on him. No weapons. Nothing.

[Helvete]

Originally Posted by Burnout18

I know. What the fuck. This murder. Kid has skittles and tea on him. No weapons. Nothing.

Let me just play devil's advocate for a second here. Kid is walking through a strange area and spotted by neighbourhood watch man, he thinks the guy (let's be realistic, not all 17 year olds are like children) is acting suspicious for whatever reason. He confronts this strange person going through his neighbourhood as to his purpose of being there and is met by verbal abuse and attitude.

This escalates into threatening behaviour and the 17 year old makes neighbourhood watch man think he's going to be attacked. Shit happens and the boy gets shot.

Yes, this situation sounds bullshit, but the article is very biased and there is always 2 sides to a story. I am not justifying his actions of shooting someone but just putting the idea across that it wasn't just some young boy minding his own business when a shot rings out from across the street and kills him.

[Helvete]

Originally Posted by Burnout18

I know. What the fuck. This murder. Kid has skittles and tea on him. No weapons. Nothing.

If you've got a gun and I've got no weapons, but I'm bigger and stronger than you and make you believe that I'm going to stomp your brains in, you'd shoot me.

[Turchinator]

In America, Neighborhood Watch is not a vigilante group or volunteer police force. They are community members who are trained to contact authorities when they are witnessing a CRIME occuring.

By 'acting suspicious' and big and menacing, what you really mean is that a black dude is in a white neighborhood and shouldn't be there.

In Florida, this not a crime last time I checked.

The shooter was a kid himself. How can you interpret their difference in size from an article that showed a picture of the murder victim in his little league uniform?

[Helvete]

Originally Posted by Turchinator

In America, Neighborhood Watch is not a vigilante group or volunteer police force. They are community members who are trained to contact authorities when they are witnessing a CRIME occuring.

By 'acting suspicious' and big and menacing, what you really mean is that a black dude is in a white neighborhood and shouldn't be there.

In Florida, this not a crime last time I checked.

The shooter was a kid himself. How can you interpret their difference in size from an article that showed a picture of the murder victim in his little league uniform?

Your news is so biased, I can't believe you put up with it. Putting words into people's mouths 'HE WAS BLACK, THE SHOOTER WAS WHITE, THIS IS WHY THE BLACK BOY IS DEAD AND THE WHITE SHOOTER IS NOT IN JAIL'.

Let the police conduct their investigation and find out the fact themselves.

A person walking down the street is not suspicious. If the kid was going about his business he would have walked through the area and nothing would have happened. How was he in the same place long enough for someone to make a call to the police? How did this confrontation ever take place? Was the kid hanging about and looking into people's properties? He must have be doing something!

There is no way a person would be walking from point A to B without doing something on the way (apart from being black) that would have resulted in this incident.

I just don't believe this case is as simple as it seems.