{"id":27074,"date":"2012-03-27T06:23:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T11:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27074"},"modified":"2012-04-08T10:59:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T15:59:30","slug":"an-inconvenient-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27074","title":{"rendered":"An Inconvenient Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me make a coupile of things crystal clear, lest the idiocracy that is the Twin Cities Sorosphere try to make hay by gang-raping the context of what I&#8217;m about to write:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a self-defense shooting, nobody wins. As you are repeatedly told in carry permit training, having to kill someone in <em>justified <\/em>self-defense is the <em>second-<\/em>worst possiible outcome. \u00a0While most defensive gun uses involve no shots being fired &#8211; like, about 98% of them &#8211; there are usually around 1,000 homicides in the US every year that are ruled justifiable. \u00a0Most of them leave behind a family mourning someone whose life took a tragic turn &#8211; and one shooter who has to live with one of the most terrible moral conundra known to man for the rest of their life. \u00a0 And even when it&#8217;s as justifiable as can be &#8211; a 100 poiund woman killing a 250 pound stalker with a sexual predator record longer than the woman&#8217;s legs &#8211; it&#8217;s almost always a tragedy for <em>someone<\/em>, and almost always a psychologically, to say nothing of financially, scarring event for the person who did the shooting, no matter how justified it was.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a parent. \u00a0In particular, I&#8217;m a parent who&#8217;s had all sorts of trouble raising teenagers (although not nearly as much trouble as one particularly loathsome, depraved, morally retarded and, I think, disturbed leftyblogger would have people believe). \u00a0Whenever I hear of some teenager and their family coming to grief in some awful tragedy &#8211; a car crash, suicide, overdose, a prank, stunt or impulsive criminal act gone wrong, or whatever &#8211; think &#8220;there but for the grace of God went I and mine&#8221;. \u00a0Defusing IEDs is nothing compared to the impulses of a hormone-addled teenager under the best of circumstances. \u00a0If the circumstances aren&#8217;t &#8220;the best?&#8221; \u00a0Ugh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With that said; did you hear that hissing sound? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.orlandosentinel.com\/2012-03-26\/news\/os-trayvon-martin-zimmerman-account-20120326_1_miami-schools-punch-unarmed-black-teenager\">That was the sound of a media\/liberal narrative starting to go flat<\/a>\u00a0(with emphasis added on occasion):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With a single punch, Trayvon Martin decked the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who eventually shot and killed the unarmed 17-year-old, then Trayvon climbed on top of George Zimmerman and slammed his head into the sidewalk, leaving him bloody and battered, law enforcement authorities have revealed to the Orlando Sentinel.<\/p>\n<p>That is the account Zimmerman gave police, <strong>and much of it has been corroborated by witnesses<\/strong>, authorities say. There have been no reports that a witness saw that initial punch Zimmerman told police about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bear in mind, this is Zimmerman&#8217;s account &#8211; as, apparently, corroborated by witnesses. \u00a0This is far from a final report from the investigators, much less any indication of what the county attorney, much less the Feds, will end up doing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is what the newspaper has learned about Zimmerman&#8217;s account to investigators:<\/p>\n<p>He said he was on his way to the grocery store when he spotted Trayvon walking through his gated community.<\/p>\n<p>Trayvon was visiting his father&#8217;s fianc\u00e9e, who lived there. He had been suspended from school in Miami after being found with an empty marijuana baggie. Miami schools have a zero-tolerance policy for drug possession.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And so on, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>This is no more final and definitive than the left&#8217;s hooting and hollering about &#8220;murder&#8221; and &#8220;stalking&#8221; and &#8220;profiling&#8221; were last week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;except that this time it&#8217;s the police, rather than Media Matters (and you can expect a campaign to discredit the police department and prosecutors from the left&#8217;s chanting points bots next).<\/p>\n<p>Two facts here:<\/p>\n<p>First: <strong>under Florida law, Zimmerman is considered innocent until proven guilty<\/strong>: \u00a0since it&#8217;s a plausible (!) self-defense claim, it&#8217;s the police and prosecutors&#8217; job to prove he <em>wasn&#8217;t <\/em>in legitimate fear of death or great bodily harm, that he used excessive force, and that he was a willing participant. \u00a0As a result, expect Media Matters and, eventually, the media to start second-guessing the whole Fifth Amendment thing when they really really really want to find someone guilty of something.<\/p>\n<p>Second? <strong>The Administration has to be getting nervous<\/strong>. \u00a0As we discussed yesterday, the Administration <em>needs <\/em>this incident to keep their constituents &#8211; Afro-Americans and lily-white urban liberals &#8211; whipped up. But lynch mobs have short attention spans, especially if they can&#8217;t actually lynch anyone.<\/p>\n<p>As I said when the shoe was on the other foot and the media was telling us in lock-step that Zimmerman was a cold-blooded murderer &#8211; we don&#8217;t know everything yet.<\/p>\n<p>And by &#8220;we&#8221;, I mean &#8220;and that means you too, liberal know-it-all who believes anything the media has to say about anything&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me make a coupile of things crystal clear, lest the idiocracy that is the Twin Cities Sorosphere try to make hay by gang-raping the context of what I&#8217;m about to write: In a self-defense shooting, nobody wins. As you are repeatedly told in carry permit training, having to kill someone in justified self-defense is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,54,22],"tags":[214],"class_list":["post-27074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-victim-disarmament","tag-martin-zimmerman-case"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27321,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27074\/revisions\/27321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}