Zimmerman charged - Page 10  

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Originally Posted by Ridgerunner 
There are also laws against false imprisonment and time limits as to how fast charges must be brought if an arrest is made.










 

No statute of limitations on Homicide cases. The double jeopardy rule applies though.

If you are involved in a shooting, there will always be the fear of charges. Seems to me that if it was self defense I would want a jury to go ahead at say it so I could get that behind me.

Hi Rebelcowboy.

I know about guns in Florida, having been there several times. On my first trip, I was warned not to idly look at people in other cars whilst waiting at red lights or to get involved in road rage incidents!

I was trying to suggest that the general view might differ according to who was carrying a gun in an incident such as this. A self appointed guardian of the neighbourhood seems OK to some but I was doubting whether there would be the same view if the young man had carried a gun for self defence.

Also, I felt that if Z was being attacked and on the ground, he would be lucky to get in a single fatal shot rather than a wounding shot.

Guns in Thailand are quite common. Nationals can get a licence from the police and buy hand guns, shot guns and other similar weapons. Foreigners cannot have licences but can, for example, pick up their wife's gun to protect her against an intruder. Anyone on your property would be very fortunate to prove that injuries they sustained were undeserved. You are not allowed to carry a gun away from the home and to do so is likely to cause a quick end to your life if a policeman sees it and feels threatened.

My experience of this subject is really from Britain where the ownership of handguns was banned after the government became fed up with mass murders of school children. Getting a shotgun licence isn't easy. I admit that I struggle with any notion that it's OK to carry guns in the street but, I suppose, once it's done it's difficult to stop.

The UK equivalent of the incident we are discussing would be a call to the police by a concerned resident. The police, not carrying guns, would turn up in the hope of finding the suspect and questioning him. But then we wouldn't be expecting the guy to be armed with a gun. If a gun was evident, a special unit, similar to SWAT I suppose, would be called out.

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Originally Posted by chickened I wonder if the gun jammed because someone was on top of it and it could not operate properly?

1 The shooter had a loose grip on the gun

or

2 The slide made contact with something

or

3 Someone was holding the slide

I could see any one of these 3 fitting the story

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