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Stand Your Ground

Alabama
Arizona
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Michigan
Mississippi
Montana
Nevada
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Washington
West Virginia

This is the list of states that still maintain a wild west mentality wherein anybody who feels threatened has a legal right to defend him or herself, even by the use of deadly force.  So, if you live in any of those states and you say “INsurance” or “nucular”, (which scares the shit out of me), and I happen to be passing through and overhear you say it, watch your ass…I’m just sayin’.

In Sanford, FL, George Zimmerman, (a Latino, obviously trying to pass as a member of the tribe), blew away seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin for threatening him with Skittles®.  The Sanford PD thought that sounded feasible and chose not to investigate further.  According to Zimmerman his actions were in no way racially motivated.  It was dark, after all, and how was he to know that the “coon” didn’t have a weapon?…and, as Geraldo so eloquently points out, to those of us who don’t regularly wear hoodies…hoodies are threatening.  Oh…and it’s Florida, but it could just as well have been any of the above…stay tuned.