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!
