After posting this thread yesterday, ekg made a comment I'd like to share...
I think it's a legit observation. Even if I had been in Zimmy's shoes, even if I agree 100% with Zimmy's actions, I would step back following this horrendous experience that affected so many people's lives forever and reflect...
I just can't understand the thinking behind going to manufacturer of the gun you used to kill a kid..and taking a photo like you're meeting Joe Montana....Let's say that everything he said happened,happened.. that it all went down the way he said it did. That TM popped him in the face and started beating the shit out him..
after all the 'hindsight' he's been given..
1. TM was supposed to be there that night
2. TM wasn't carrying a weapon
3. TM could have maybe smoked a joint sometime that day so he wasn't 'on drugs' or anything else GZ implied
4. He was armed with skittles
5. He had no idea who GZ was.. why GZ was following him..what GZ wanted with him..
after all the 'hindsight'.. wouldn't any of us have some sort of inkling of guilt for taking the life of another human? shouldn't he have some kind of.. idk compassion? for what he did? hardened soldiers from every war have guilt over being forced to justifiably kill women/children.. children who were holding grenades or aiming weapons at them or in suicide vests.. circumstances where there was no ambiguity, where it was kill or be killed. They have ptsd over these absolutely necessary killings..They have feelings of doubt and guilt.. Veteran police who have had to pull their weapons on anyone and kill them, adult or child.. have issues of guilt that haunt them forever..
and then we have George..
who's still celebrating...basking even... in the death he caused..
the death of a kid armed with skittles..
a kid who wasn't up to anything.. who was just going home..a kid who still to this day doesn't know who the hell GZ was or what GZ wanted with him that night.
I don't care if you're on "my" side in this argument... shouldn't there be something other than "basking in the glory of.." on GZ part? instead of this lack of common decency.. or sociopath-like behavior..
I think it's a legit observation. Even if I had been in Zimmy's shoes, even if I agree 100% with Zimmy's actions, I would step back following this horrendous experience that affected so many people's lives forever and reflect...