Is there any better explanation on why “Progressives” are all for banning guns, while running “Revolving Door” criminal justice systems that simply let known violent offenders run free in the streets?
They believe in Deodands!
Deodand is a thing forfeited or given to God, specifically, in law, an object or instrument which becomes forfeit because it has caused a person’s death.[1]
The English common law of deodands traces back to the 11th century and was applied, on and off, until Parliament finally abolished it in 1846.[2] Under this law, a chattel (i.e. some personal property, such as a horse or a hay stack) was considered a deodand whenever a coroner’s jury decided that it had caused the death of a human being.[3] In theory, deodands were forfeit to the crown, which was supposed to sell the chattel and then apply the profits to some pious use.[4] (The term deodand derives from the Latin phrase “deo dandum” which means “to be given to God.”) In reality, the juries who decided that a particular animal or object was a deodand also appraised its value and the owners were expected to pay a fine equal to the value of the deodand. If the owner could not pay the deodand, his township was held responsible.[3]
Primitive and fairly stupid. Hence Why “Progressives” cling to it so! Case and Point:
That changed when I heard this: George Zimmerman wants his gun back. The 9mm pistol he was carrying the night he killed Trayvon Martin, the gun that took a young man’s life. Zimmerman wants that very same gun back. He wants it back even though he is free to buy another weapon, a new and different one. That is as much an indictment of his character as anything his trial brought out.
Mark O’Mara, the lawyer for Zimmerman, told ABC News that if the gun is returned to his client, he plans to continue carrying it. That is a possibility. If the U.S. Department of Justice had not put a hold on the weapon as the DOJ investigates possible federal charges against Zimmerman, the State of Florida was due to return the gun to him by month’s end.
That baffles me. How could George Zimmerman ever want to see that gun again? How could the sight of it not be hateful to him, a reproach? It ended the life of an innocent young man, precious and irreplaceable; it devastated his family and the community of people who loved him. That gun, which fired the fatal bullet into Trayvon Martin, has sparked genuine fear in the hearts of every parent of a child who, like Trayvon, might by his very appearance be considered — wrongly — to be a threat.
How could George ZImmerman not want that gun to be removed from the face of the earth? I am a public defender, but I am also a family member of three murder victims, shot to death in their home. When guns are taken by the police in my clients’ cases, the prosecution at the end of the case asks the judge for a “C and D” order: confiscate and destroy. No more gun. Gone. When the judge enters the order, my heart quietly rejoices.
This is my outrage: that George Zimmerman can take a human life with so little thought for the immense value of that life that he wouldn’t mind carrying the instrumentality that ended it. It is remorseless.
Wow that is some top-level crazy talk right there!
First the smaller point: “It ended the life of an innocent young man, precious and irreplaceable”
“Innocent”? A Hate-filled thug looking to harm and very possibly KILL a total stranger just because of the color of his skin? Also I’ll step right off the PC wagon right now “precious and irreplaceable”, Maybe not, we have far too many violent, non-productive, thugged up thieves….that goes for EVERY color. If Trayvon Martin hadn’t been killed that night there is little doubt in my mind that even if George Zimmerman simply drove on to the store, eventually Martin would end up murdering somebody, or be actually murdered himself due to gang relations.
Sorry, but we have too many miscreants like Trayvon Martin to call him either Precious, or Irreplaceable.
Now the bigger issue, Zimmerman wanting his gun back.
Well, its HIS gun. My stuff is my stuff for a reason, if somebody has my stuff, I want it back.
Also this is not only HIS gun, but its the gun that saved HIS LIFE from an “innocent boy” who was bashing his brains out on the sidewalk.
Also Zimmerman was carrying a Kel-Tec pistol, with Sellier and Bellot JHP ammo, no reload, in a garbage nylon holster…and this was BEFORE he was engaged in a massive lawsuit. He likely isn’t made of money.
But hey, this is some sort of evil talisman or something and Zimmerman should willingly sacrifice it for the “Progressive” gods or something.
Grow up!
Jeez, where do I start?
“Public Defender”. Does this person have a law degree, or only a purple cape and a mask? (I already assume that he has ear plugs, mule blinders, a phobic aversion to facts, and a “meh” attitude for statistics that don’t fit his narrative)
Three family members murdered in their own homes? Has this degreed bastion of intellect ever heard of self-defense? Has he considered helping his surviving family members move to a safer neighborhood? Or is whining about nuclear physics more lucrative?
I’ve been on the bad end of thievery by legal, illegal, and extra-legal means. At the end of the day…it’s my shit, and I want it back.
My .45 is precious because it cannot be replaced. Trayvon was a punk and has already been replaced a thousand times over.
Full disclosure: I am a privileged racist clinger who is compensating for my small penis, and I only disagree with Obama because he is a Negro-American.
This brain trust also sees Zimmerman as a murderer. And insists that Martin was no threat.
No delusional bias there.
The Antis sure are entusiastic about letting the largest and strongest be able to freely beat and abuse.
And why not? He bought into the narrative.
And he cheers whenever a gun is destroyed. Because making a gun “gone” is a great victory, nevermind the hand that was using it…
But I’m sure he doesn’t want to destory *your* guns.
Also he performs a heck of a representation for his clients! (Quietly) Cheering when their property is destroyed!
How does this boot-licker feel about a cop getting his service weapon back after a good or “good” shoot?
Oh and here’s a quick test. This “deep thinker” is against this particulular gun? So what if Zimmerman sold the “evil” gun to someone who would destroy it, and then he used the money to buy a replacement?
Or is Mr. “No more gun” against the very idea of the proles having guns?
I submit that’s their intention.
When guns are taken by the police in my clients’ cases, the prosecution at the end of the case asks the judge for a “C and D” order: confiscate and destroy.
Of course, the prosecution is only going to get that if her clients are found guilty or the guns are illegally possessed. In other words, contraband. Otherwise it is a Fifth Amendment “taking” without due process — someone who was found wholly innocent and had been in lawful possession at the time of the incident does not surrender their property rights, anymore than the victim of a robbery has to forfeit their stolen television to the state because the DA thinks it would look cool in his office.
While I think it is wasteful of taxpayer dollars to destroy things that are contraband solely because they were used or possessed criminally, destruction of contraband is legally unobjectionable.
Here’s a thought. Maybe Zimmerman needs some Money? So if he gets his Gun Back, he can put it on Gunbroker. With its History and Provenance, you know that the Bids would go through the Roof. The Crime Collectors would want it, the REAL Racists like the Aryan Brotherhood would want it, and the Professional Racists like Sharpton would want it to “Wave in the Air” went they try to Gin Up a Riot. But no matter what, he gets some Cash to pay down the Lawyers, buy a better Gun, Body Armor, move out of State, etc.
I hope he gets it back.
*Twack* Outta the park….
GZ’s employment prospects are somewhere between slim and none. Auctioning off this piece would pay a lotta bills for all the reasons BBL notes.
They refuse to believe that maybe, just maybe that gun saved his life. Fine. But they also refuse to believe that Zimmerman thinks it saved his life. The other side of the story just doesn’t exist.
His heart “quietly rejoices” when people’s private property is taken from them and then destroyed? I’m hoping he’s talking about the guns taken from his clients who have been found guilty.
As for Zimmerman’s gun. He’s a free man. The gun is his own personal property. If this whackjob thought money was evil would he be bitching about Zimmerman wanting $400 back after acquittal because it was a reminder, a symbol of bad shit that happened?
I have a hammer at home that has “destroyed” many a “precious and irreplaceable” nail by hitting off-center, and dented many a “precious and irreplaceable” 2×4* by missing the nail entirely.
That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t want the hammer back if it were stolen.
(* – In the case of the 2×4, it really is “irreplaceable.” The process of making the board DESTROYS the tree, and do you KNOW how old a pine tree needs to BE to get a good 2x4x12 out of it!? You’ll NEVER get another piece of lumber quite like it!!)
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