George Zimmerman auctioning gun used to kill TM

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  1. AlphaOmega

    AlphaOmega Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Maybe the hoa should leaving policing up to the police then.
     
  2. Margot2

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    NW has been successful across the country for 50 years .. and they are NOT police... nor do they pretend to be police.
     
  3. RP12

    RP12 Well-Known Member

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    Its all moot to the over all story.... Why you harp on it is beyond me.. Out of court settlements are hardly rare.
     
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    But would be if we had a loser pays system instead of the shakedown scams we see way too often.
     
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    GZ was power hungry like his Idol Hillary.
     
  6. Think for myself

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    No one ever said that Zimmerman was the pinnacle of classy.

    Indeed up for auction is the infamous gun used to kill Trayvon Martin. Apparently, Zimmerman has decided to sell what he calls a piece of American history.

    While he is well within his rights to do so, is this something one should do? Certainly Zimmerman has never shied away form shameless self promotion with his appearances at gun shows an his rather (in my opinion) horrific version of art.

    What private collector would want this? UIs this a peer to a gun used in what has years later been considered historical? The gun that shot Billy the Kid or Jesse James?

    Or just a cheap piece of junk used by an overzealous self appointed security guard?

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/george-zimmermans-gun-trayvon-martins-death-auctioned-off/story?id=39056770

    George Zimmerman, the man who was acquitted in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, is selling his gun.

    The 9-mm pistol that Zimmerman, 32, said he used to shoot and kill Trayvon Martin Feb. 26, 2012, is up for sale today on gunbroker.com.

    "The firearm for sale is the firearm that was used to defend my life and end the brutal attack from Trayvon Martin," Zimmerman wrote on the auction site. "Many have expressed interest in owning and displaying the firearm including The Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. This is a piece of American History.”

    George Zimmerman Jury Hears Key 911 Tapes in Start of Trial

    George Zimmerman Found Not Guilty and Goes Free

    In an interview with FOX Florida station WOGX-TV, Zimmerman confirmed that he put the firearm used in the killing of Martin on the auction block.

    "I'm a free American I can do what I like with my possessions," he said, adding, "it's time to move past the firearm, and if I sell it and it sells, and I move past it."

    The auction goes live at 11 a.m. ET today with bids starting at $5,000. Almost 50,000 have visited the page, according to the site.

    It has been more than four years since the fatal confrontation took place in a gated community in Sanford, Florida. Martin, 17, was heading back to a relative's house after leaving a convenience store when he was shot by Zimmerman.

    Prosecutors accused Zimmerman of profiling Martin as a criminal and following him with a loaded gun. Zimmerman maintained that he shot Martin in self-defense after he was knocked to the ground and Martin was banging his head against the pavement. Zimmerman is a white Hispanic and Martin was black.

    A Florida jury found Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter in July 2013.

    The trial sparked rallies across the country and created a national debate over law enforcement deaths of black men and bo
     
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    LOOLOLOLOLOLL9LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLILILILOLOL. Not sure what your random statement has to do with my comment. Lolololololololololololololololololololololol
     
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    "Is this something he should do?"

    That's an irrelevant question. A man wants to legally sell something he owns. These Zimmerman stories are getting so desperate. Tomorrow we'll read:

    BREAKING NEWS! Zimmerman farts in Iowa Walmart!
     
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    Margot, this is off topic, but I want to ask you.

    All the press seems to imply that ISIS is bombing Shiites in Sadr City and elsewhere just for the sake of killing Shiites. Is that all there is to their targeting, or do think there is more to it?
     
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    It's his property, he can do with it as he sees fit.

    I just wish the little jackwagon would crawl under a rock, and disappear from the public eye.
     
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    I don't know... ISIS are savages and really stupid to boot. Jihad brings poverty and illiteracy.
     
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    Say what you wish , but in my opinion an idiot canceled himself out and the other is well on his way of doing so.

    I just want the left to remember the lie they tried to create as well as the race war they are trying to push. A lot of this crap we see today stemmed from this incident. Instead of waiting for facts they turned this into a circus and ran false narratives to create a racial situation, even went as far as to try and edit fotos and audio to push their agenda.

    This should have been nothing more than a murder trial between 2 bumbling fools, but instead 2 morons got way more coverage than they should have to raise ratings and push faux outrage to create even more ratings.

    Let the left remember, as well as the morons of BLM so they can never forget their stupidity.
     
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    George says the Smithsonian wants the gun. Do you suppose George will use the proceeds to pay his lawyers?
     
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    Agreed. The message is that the left celebrated the attack on Zimmerman. Just as the bigots celebrated Mike Brown attempting to kill a cop. Until they own up to that and shame those criminals, then Zimmerman and others like him will continue to get celebrated. For god sakes, Obama said if he had a child, it would look like Trayvon. That is the dumbest thing the leader of the free world can do when the kid viciously attacked someone.
     
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    He should donate the gun to a law abiding family that happens to live near a ghetto.
     
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    I see no problem with him auctioning it off.

    It isn't an icon and the only thing that is going happen with the money from the sale is it will go into his pocket, but he certainly can sell it and try to get what he can for it.

    As for rehashing the events? It was an election season and Democrats used the incident to try to drive black voters to the polls.

    It is not a complex story. He saw what he believed was a suspicious person. He called the police while watching where the person when. That person violently attacked him. He shot the attacker. The attacker died. He was found not guilty by a jury. People who hate guns and believe it is every citizen's duty to agree to be raped or murdered hate him. Those who believe in a right to use a gun do not. There is nothing more to it than that and other than a political tool for Democrats never was.

    How many were murdered in Chicago just on Mother's Day? Not one member of this forum can name even one of the victims. The Zimmerman stuff was 100% just election racial division politics. That's all it ever was.
     
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    Well apparently it doesn't work that way to some. They screwed up in the beginning trying to paint Zimmerman as some gun toting right wing white racist, but then they found out he is half Hispanic and a registered democrat they had to back up a bit and use "white Hispanic" to keep their hopes of creating racial tension alive.
     
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    A gun that led to America finally waking up to the lunacy of liberals and the black plantation. Along with the gun that removed that parasite Mike Brown from society, might have done more to wake up the silent majority than any single item in the last 20 years or more.

    Not that Zim used a Smith and Wesson, but that stock was at about 5.16 the day he took out Martin. Today it is 22.84. Just sayin'.
     
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    Yes they should sue their attorney who negotiated the unnecessary settlement.

    So still waiting for you to substantiate your claim that Zimmerman violated Florida law and committed an assault and a stalking that night, you know when you claimed you had a higher authority than the rest of us.
     
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    Blah, blah, blah....we have already hashed this out and you are wrong.

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    Wow, you must really hate TM'S mother who copyrighted his name in order to profit.

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    The HOA settled before the trial got started....they are idiots.

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    They chose to settle and accept the liability...again, idiots they are.
     
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    The HOA didn't have a leg to stand on.. They backed George under the NW protocols.
     
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    The rules of the neighborhood watch program. Too funny, do they overthrow the constitution of the U. S. A. and the second amendment. You fools are too much sometimes.
     
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