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Originally Posted by theking
We of course were not armed police. We had zero police powers. I for one do not view having a shotgun in the patrol car as really being armed. I was armed because I have a permit to carry just as tens of millions of people carry. Any where you or any one else goes there are people carrying...even little old grandma's carry. I don't understand why you think one needs some kind of extensive training to ride around in a car to watch what is going on in the neighbor hood.
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One thing about Zimmerman is from what I understand he did not identify himself as the neighborhood watch nor did he have anything clearly distinguishable on him which made that obvious. So how does someone know he's not some crazed stalker or pervert looking to kidnap them or maybe a robber?
The whole thing is unfortunate and unnecessary. The saddest thing is that it's made into a racial issue as opposed to something we learn from and improve upon so that it does not happen again.