# How is Mason1972's example worse than the Zimmerman shooting?

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**Created:** [December 5, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-mason1972s-example-worse-than-the-zimmerman-shooting/825614 "2018-12-05T15:42:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-mason1972s-example-worse-than-the-zimmerman-shooting/825614/162 "2018-12-06T17:45:23Z")

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Let me just remind everyone what you guys are arguing…

> [@HurricaneDitka](#):
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> AFAICT, that history consists of shooting Martin in self-defense and later having two girlfriends accuse him of violence and then recant. Is that the “long and varied history of violence” we are to discuss?

> [@Shodan](#):
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> He was looking for a fight. Martin thought of himself as a bad-ass. Remember the whole “NO LIMIT NIGGA” thing?
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> He had been kicked out of school for drugs and theft and vandalism, his mother couldn’t handle him, so she sent him to his father to see if his father could do any better.
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> Martin thought he was a tough guy. Maybe he was. Few people, however, are tougher than a bullet.
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> You fuck with enough people, sooner or later you find you fucked with the wrong people. He was only 17, so this was sooner.
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> Regards,  
> Shodan

So, people accuse Zimmerman of threatening them with guns, but that’s no evidence that he may have done so to Martin. And yet, Martin is suspended because of possession of marijuana, and therefore he is a violent thug who most likely assaulted Zimmerman for no reason.

And your opinion of Zimmerman and Martin has nothing to do with the race of either individual.

The only appropriate response does not belong in this thread.

[https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21362950#post21362950](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21362950#post21362950)

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