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Awesome! Two blessings and great family members to carry it forward.

When you were beaten, it is time to quit. Martin attacked Zimmerman, not the other way around.

I am not taking issue with your response or analogy…. But, there is no evidence that Zimmerman chased anyone. Actually quite to the contrary. I guess it is the same but with Zimmerman, the chaser was killed and not the chasee. 👌

It is hard for me to tell in this forum whether someone is being sarcastic or serious. I will go with this being sarcasm for now as that is some of the most nonsensical stuff I have ever read.

They are exactly the same. Because you might agree with one and not the other, it does not change the fact that if a person thinks he can make money by selling something illegal, he will do so. It is silly to think that someone is willing to commit a crime of selling (not using) an illegal item but will only do so if it is marijuana. In this case you had a 17-year-old kid trying to make easy money and when he did not make that easy money, he murdered a 15 year old. Is it your premise a 17-year-old who is willing to commit a felony and then murder a child when he could not complete that felony, would not be a criminal except for marijuana being illegal? The same 17 year old would not have sold something else illegal for easy money? THAT, is the kool-Aid.

I might be 100% wrong but I would bet that he drew his gun for whatever reason and when putting it back in the holster, had his finger on the trigger.

Texas probably has the most open laws on using deadly force including sometimes for theft. Shooting a shoplifter in the back in daylight is not one of them.

Yes, that’s Murder.

Whether marijuana should be legal or not would have changed anything. Maybe the dead kid would not have been there but another person would have been there in his place buying something else illegal. Just like in the days of prohibition, when Al Capone and other gang leaders we’re selling alcohol because it was illegal and they use the illegal product to make a lot of money. When alcohol became legal, did the mafia go away and quit committing crimes? Did they all go out to get respectable jobs? The obvious answer is no but the next question is, why? Because they are criminals and will use whatever crime is available to make their money. Prostitution? Gun running? Selling of other drugs that are illegal? Even the selling of marijuana in Colorado where it is legal, is a felony if you don’t have a store and pay the tax. Only certain people in Colorado are allowed to sell. I can guarantee they’re still illegal sales of marijuana in Colorado where the possession of it is legal. it is interesting that you list tobacco. Want an example? In New York City there was a high tax for regular cigarettes. That is why some people (criminals) drive across the bridge to New Jersey and buy cigarettes and return to sell the loosies on the streets of New York. That is how Eric Garner died of a heart attack in a struggle with police who are arresting him not for selling cocaine, not an illegal gun and not marijuana but a cigarette that you could buy over the counter at any convenient store in this country. It was no different than rum runners going across the border with Canada and returning with alcohol. Wait, I thought cigarettes were legal everywhere in this country, How could somebody die fighting the police for selling a cigarette? A person who is willing to commit a felony by selling marijuana, is not all of a sudden going to be a model and upstanding citizen because marijuana becomes legal. He will just change it to selling PCP, cocaine, guns or in the case of Eric Garner, a Marlboro cigarette. Where does the rationale come in believing that felons are only felons because of something like marijuana being illegal. Like a person is going to say gee, I don’t mind going to prison for selling a little bit of marijuana but I sure don’t want to go to prison for selling a gun or cocaine.

Rather than continue to defund the police, the San Francisco mayor now calls for refunding police and for “aggressive policing”. The mayor has said that the allowed lawlessness that has taken control of the city has to stop. Shocking right? Stripping the police of their powers and taking them off of the streets and replacing them with social workers apparently hasn’t worked out quite like planned. Many people have stated that defunding the police will come with consequences. San Francisco, Austin, New York City, Baltimore and other places have shown us exactly what will happen. San Francisco might be the worst case. When the government takes away much of the incentive to work by banning evictions, giving away “free” money and encouraging people to stay on the government payroll with a crisis that they created, is it any wonder that there are millions of unfilled jobs yet high unemployment? When the same government removes criminal penalties, allows lawlessness with riots and daylight looting such as in San Francisco, is it any wonder that without consequences, some (many?) people will take advantage? [Hidden Content]

What he said was the media is corrupt, the country is falling apart and the media is complicit with what is happening. Is what he is saying true?

Serious?

You weren’t going to see a response. Like Bullets said, looking at lawsuits.

So they pay $5,000 and EMS pours water on their face ….

Nederland might not have the players but KF likes that up tempo game of Silsbee like they played against United. It is more exciting to lose by 30 than it is to lose by 3.

They allowed it to stand fit now. I think they just fast tracked it until they could actually hear the case. Hopefully the Court overturn the Texas law.

I did not see your post before responding to another but pretty much said that. I know nothing about this case but thought that maybe the evidence was tainted so they had to go a different direction. As you know they could have charged her with the Intoxication Manslaughter, Manslaughter, Intoxication Assault, Aggravated Assault and maybe some other felonies.

Since there is no male volleyball in high school in Texas, let’s allow the boys to play volleyball. There is no need to claim transgender anything. Let’s just be fair and let the guys spike that ball against the girls on the other team that are still playing. Equality!!

I see no reason for a man to go to compete in a woman’s sport. If a man wants to call himself a woman, great. If he wants to dress feminine and put on make up, awesome. if it does not negatively affect another person, do what you wish with your own life. I mean we don’t have high school football teams playing Sunday against an NFL team. Yes it is all male athletes who are voluntarily playing a sport but what is the point? Maybe pick one team out of the NFL with the worst record for the last decade to play nothing but high school teams but everyone else plays a regular schedule. So 10 years from now we can see the Detroit Lions are 170-0 and set an NFL record that will never be broken!!!! Detroit was such a great team!!! That is essentially what they are doing by allowing men to compete against women. I don’t care what kind of hormonal treatment they are on at the time. That would be like Arnold Schwarzenegger in the prime of his career start taking estrogen shots to lower his testosterone. Sure, but the muscle mass is already there. Wokeness is a mental disease.

I have no issue using pepper. I have used it and on one incident, I think it saved my life. I was attacked by three men and one of them was trying to pull my pistol out of the holster. I managed to shove down hard enough to keep my gun in the holster and with my left hand pulled out my pepper and hit the two people in front of me in the eyes. Then put it over my right shoulder and shot the guy in the face with the pepper who was trying to take away my gun from behind. There is no way I could’ve even come close to winning a 3 on 1 fight but the pepper more than evened the odds. There was a large crowd at a dance at that location and the pepper cleared the entire area and ended the dance. When that atomized pepper gets into the air, it makes it painful to breathe. But…. I have seen officers indiscriminately spray a crowd to disperse them. There is always a time and a place for such actions but was it appropriate in this case to “maybe” spray people who are not involved? Is that using force against a person who is not resisting or causing a threat? I have no opinion on this case at all because I do not know what happened. Did the officers spray pepper on people who were fighting to make an arrest? Were the officers or school officials being directly attacked or threaten by people crowding around them? As with my case was the incidental overspray what caused other people to be affected? Did the officers use the pepper as teargas being used to disperse the crowd in a riot? If so, is that justified against people who may have just been eating lunch? I have no answer but just curious.

What may be weird is that what goes on dozens of times a week in this area, seems weird.

That seems pretty much routine.

I also wonder about the calling EMS to treat people. I am not saying that no one needed it because I was not there however EMS is probably going to get there and pour water bottles over your face. I am not sure if that is the most cost effective means for the school district. I mean it’s in the cafeteria, go get a 25 cent bottle of water and poured over your own face instead of calling a $5000 ambulance?

I sometimes question the use of OC/pepper or method of using it in some situation. The stuff generally pretty effective however.