NFrameFred
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First off - if you decided to contribute/comment on this I ask you to please stay on topic and not take this to a political place where it will inevitably disappear . . . . .
In light of current events and a few recent discussions here I find it noteworthy to point out that in the Zimmerman case (Martin kid shooting) they are now digging furiously and somewhat successfully to unearth any and all rants, postings, smart remarks, etc. from internet web sites they can track Zimmerman's participation to. And apparently he's posted some things that don't paint a picture helpful to his defense.
I mention this since I have (on more than one occasion) seen folks opine that the 'average person' must be paranoid, crazy, or scared of their own shadow if they think something they post on an internet site would come back to haunt them "as if anyone had the time or would take the trouble to track it down." Well, well . . . guess that answers that one . . .
The ones who tell us this are the fearless types who, from the safety of their keyboards in their mommy's basement (or wherever), post all kinds of tough guy talk about 'what they would do', 'what you should do', how they ' took care of' a similar situation, yada, yada, yada, ad nauseum to the point of making statements that they would likely never make if they were actually in the room with the people they're telling this to. Goes on here quite often, thankfully not as often as on many sites you could point to.
Point is, Zimmerman said some things on line not even posting under his real name that have been tracked down that would fall under the heading of what my old man would have called "letting your mouth overload your rear end".
How all that shakes out in his particular case is for a jury of his peers (that statement should scare you to death in today's society) to decide. To state the obvious, though, his past statements certainly won't help his present situation.
I won't to into further detail but everyone knows the kind of postings we see here I'm talking about, where some bad boy lets everyone know he doesn't care what anyone else thinks/says and what he'd do or say, or why anyone who is careful about such things likely wears his momma's underwear.
Point is, no matter how much you may think you're in the shadows no one is anonymous in this day and age, especially on line. Since this a gun forum, righteous self defense questions and observations are made, and the efficacy of the tools for the job we that shoot and collect for sport is sometimes discussed. Nothing wrong with that in and of itself - it's just when the bluster and ill considered swagger/braggadocio that some bring to the table creeps into it, the above real world example should be an object lesson for those who tend to engage their mouth before their mind is in gear. The topic of the "advertising on tee-shirts" thread is one of the latest examples I recall. I care not what someone else decides they do or do not want to wear. But I think it was Mas Ayoob who once wrote that if he found himself in a position where he had to defend himself with his gun to fatal effect, when the gendarmes showed up to sort things out that he rather not be wearing a shirt that said "Kill 'em all & let God sort 'em out" but something along the lines of "Peace on earth; goodwill toward men". If you truly don't think you'd care about that a year later or more when you're sitting beside your lawyer in a court room while a 'jury of your peers' (there's that phrase again) has days, weeks, or months to dissect and pass judgement on what you had to make a split second decision on, the only one who presently believes that is you.
It takes all kinds and I've known plenty of most of them. It's just 'whistling past the graveyard' to think that if you carry a firearm for self protection that it will never happen to you. But what do I know ? I'm just a 'voice crying in the wilderness' . . .
YMMV
In light of current events and a few recent discussions here I find it noteworthy to point out that in the Zimmerman case (Martin kid shooting) they are now digging furiously and somewhat successfully to unearth any and all rants, postings, smart remarks, etc. from internet web sites they can track Zimmerman's participation to. And apparently he's posted some things that don't paint a picture helpful to his defense.
I mention this since I have (on more than one occasion) seen folks opine that the 'average person' must be paranoid, crazy, or scared of their own shadow if they think something they post on an internet site would come back to haunt them "as if anyone had the time or would take the trouble to track it down." Well, well . . . guess that answers that one . . .
The ones who tell us this are the fearless types who, from the safety of their keyboards in their mommy's basement (or wherever), post all kinds of tough guy talk about 'what they would do', 'what you should do', how they ' took care of' a similar situation, yada, yada, yada, ad nauseum to the point of making statements that they would likely never make if they were actually in the room with the people they're telling this to. Goes on here quite often, thankfully not as often as on many sites you could point to.
Point is, Zimmerman said some things on line not even posting under his real name that have been tracked down that would fall under the heading of what my old man would have called "letting your mouth overload your rear end".
How all that shakes out in his particular case is for a jury of his peers (that statement should scare you to death in today's society) to decide. To state the obvious, though, his past statements certainly won't help his present situation.
I won't to into further detail but everyone knows the kind of postings we see here I'm talking about, where some bad boy lets everyone know he doesn't care what anyone else thinks/says and what he'd do or say, or why anyone who is careful about such things likely wears his momma's underwear.
Point is, no matter how much you may think you're in the shadows no one is anonymous in this day and age, especially on line. Since this a gun forum, righteous self defense questions and observations are made, and the efficacy of the tools for the job we that shoot and collect for sport is sometimes discussed. Nothing wrong with that in and of itself - it's just when the bluster and ill considered swagger/braggadocio that some bring to the table creeps into it, the above real world example should be an object lesson for those who tend to engage their mouth before their mind is in gear. The topic of the "advertising on tee-shirts" thread is one of the latest examples I recall. I care not what someone else decides they do or do not want to wear. But I think it was Mas Ayoob who once wrote that if he found himself in a position where he had to defend himself with his gun to fatal effect, when the gendarmes showed up to sort things out that he rather not be wearing a shirt that said "Kill 'em all & let God sort 'em out" but something along the lines of "Peace on earth; goodwill toward men". If you truly don't think you'd care about that a year later or more when you're sitting beside your lawyer in a court room while a 'jury of your peers' (there's that phrase again) has days, weeks, or months to dissect and pass judgement on what you had to make a split second decision on, the only one who presently believes that is you.
It takes all kinds and I've known plenty of most of them. It's just 'whistling past the graveyard' to think that if you carry a firearm for self protection that it will never happen to you. But what do I know ? I'm just a 'voice crying in the wilderness' . . .
YMMV
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Ain't gonna happen, folks.
