Dear Readers,
Last year, I wrote an article saying why I supported George Zimmerman in his case.
I have gotten a lot of email on this. While many are laced with profanity calling me everything in the book, and yes there have been many who have threatened me and my family, some are simply comments calling people like me who would not hesitate using a gun to protect myself - cowards.
I usually hit delete and move on not worrying about it.
I've just received this latest comment on that post which I decided was so typical of the people who have wrote, yet was not threatening, that I wanted to share it with you:
Anonymous November 19, 2013 at 2:35 PM
"it's not hard to kick a cowards ass. Put a gun in his hand and now he is a hero. It would have never happened if the coward didn't have a gun. He even pulls guns on women. Guarantee you he would never do that that to a full grown man or anyone with a gun in their possession.. Keep supporting losers cowboys! Do you know the real origin of cowboys?"
This is my reply to that person:
While I agree that it's true that it's not hard to kick a coward's ass, what does that have to do with anything? Nothing really.
As for George Zimmerman, I've NEVER said in any editorial that he is a hero of any sort.
I have said that he was being sat on and was having his head beaten into the concrete pavement, in what is commonly known as a "ground and pound," and to my belief of the facts given to the public -- he used his pistol as a last resort to save his own life.
I believe that you would have done the same thing if you felt that your life was in mortal danger, I know that I would.
For me, if for any other reason, simply because my training says that in a combat situation -- I should use everything in my personal arsenal to stay alive.
Now, like many of you, I have read about Zimmerman's latest problems with the law.
I've never addressed the man's "character" restricting myself to only talk about his actions against Martin.
He could be a card cheat and a woman beater, a bum and a low life, on the other hand he can be someone who volunteers his life to the sick and needy - I don't know the guy.
I only know what I would have done if I had a younger stronger assailant on top of me trying to kill me by smashing my head into the cement.
I would have used everything including shooting Martin in the case that I've described.
As for Zimmerman breaking the law himself and assaulting others, he should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law for that crime..
As for me and others supporting losers, well I would support you if you were in the same situation as he was on his back that night and you used your legally carried pistol to save your own life.
If your character as a man is a loser, that doesn't take away from the fact that you have the right to defend yourself - loser or not.
As for the origin of cowboys? Yes, I know the origin. What does that have to do with your accusing me of supporting some loser like yourself who was within the law to act as he did?
Write me, let me know why you feel it would have been OK for Martin to go ahead and kill Zimmerman, but it was not OK for a loser like Zimmerman or you to protect his or your own life?
Ask yourself this, if you were armed and on your back. And yes, you felt that you were about to die, knowing that you carried a gun for self-defense -- would you have used it? Or, and be honest, would you have really allowed Martin to kill you by smashing your head into the concrete pavement?
Write me to tell me if you would have taken what you call the coward's way out - or would you have not done everything that you could to stay alive?
If you put yourself in Zimmerman's place, are honest with yourself, and still say that you wouldn't have shot Martin - then you are a bigger coward than most.
Only a true coward, a real loser, wouldn't do everything in his or her power to stay alive when faced with the prospect of death.
Thanks for your comment,
Tom Correa
Editor
Also ...
I find that there are two camps when it come to the whole George Zimmerman / Trayvon Martin case.
The first camp is made of Conservatives who believe that we all have a right, a moral obligation, a duty, to use "every means" at our disposal to fend off danger and protect our lives.
We in that camp understand that "every means" also means using a gun if we have one.
The second camp is made up of Liberals who believe that while it is OK to kill a helpless child before birth, and forgive those on Death Row, that we are duty bound to run away if we can -- and of course, if that is useless, they feel that we should simply allow aggressors to kill us without a fight using everything at our means.
I believe that Liberals would have rather seen George Zimmerman die, be found dead after having his head caved in, than see him defend himself with a gun or a knife or a brick or whatever.
For the record ...
Since I have been asked, let me answer.
The fights that I have been in were never something called "friendly fights." I have never been in, nor ever seen, such a thing called a "friendly fight."
Each and every fight that I have ever been in, I immediately understood that the man who I was fighting wanted to hurt or kill me.
And yes, I in turn obliged them meeting force with force and moreso - all with the same intent.
I never tried to hit and run, or shake their hands afterwards. I was taught that anything short of fighting "all out" is a waste of time.
Those who have tried to hurt me in the past fully understand that I don't believe in rules when trying to preserving my life - or protecting those I hold dear.
Maybe it is my Marine training, but I truly believe that one who does not fight with every means available, to the fullest extent of his or her abilities, is the real coward!
Some call my training barbaric and vicious in a civilized world, but frankly I expect one to fight in an altercation with the same zeal and effort, wanting to use any and every means at their disposal, the same as if they were fighting cancer - with the desire to stop it or kill it.
That's just how I see it.
Tom Correa
Last year, I wrote an article saying why I supported George Zimmerman in his case.
I have gotten a lot of email on this. While many are laced with profanity calling me everything in the book, and yes there have been many who have threatened me and my family, some are simply comments calling people like me who would not hesitate using a gun to protect myself - cowards.
I usually hit delete and move on not worrying about it.
I've just received this latest comment on that post which I decided was so typical of the people who have wrote, yet was not threatening, that I wanted to share it with you:
Anonymous November 19, 2013 at 2:35 PM
"it's not hard to kick a cowards ass. Put a gun in his hand and now he is a hero. It would have never happened if the coward didn't have a gun. He even pulls guns on women. Guarantee you he would never do that that to a full grown man or anyone with a gun in their possession.. Keep supporting losers cowboys! Do you know the real origin of cowboys?"
This is my reply to that person:
While I agree that it's true that it's not hard to kick a coward's ass, what does that have to do with anything? Nothing really.
As for George Zimmerman, I've NEVER said in any editorial that he is a hero of any sort.
I have said that he was being sat on and was having his head beaten into the concrete pavement, in what is commonly known as a "ground and pound," and to my belief of the facts given to the public -- he used his pistol as a last resort to save his own life.
I believe that you would have done the same thing if you felt that your life was in mortal danger, I know that I would.
For me, if for any other reason, simply because my training says that in a combat situation -- I should use everything in my personal arsenal to stay alive.
Now, like many of you, I have read about Zimmerman's latest problems with the law.
I've never addressed the man's "character" restricting myself to only talk about his actions against Martin.
He could be a card cheat and a woman beater, a bum and a low life, on the other hand he can be someone who volunteers his life to the sick and needy - I don't know the guy.
I only know what I would have done if I had a younger stronger assailant on top of me trying to kill me by smashing my head into the cement.
I would have used everything including shooting Martin in the case that I've described.
As for Zimmerman breaking the law himself and assaulting others, he should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law for that crime..
As for me and others supporting losers, well I would support you if you were in the same situation as he was on his back that night and you used your legally carried pistol to save your own life.
If your character as a man is a loser, that doesn't take away from the fact that you have the right to defend yourself - loser or not.
As for the origin of cowboys? Yes, I know the origin. What does that have to do with your accusing me of supporting some loser like yourself who was within the law to act as he did?
Write me, let me know why you feel it would have been OK for Martin to go ahead and kill Zimmerman, but it was not OK for a loser like Zimmerman or you to protect his or your own life?
Ask yourself this, if you were armed and on your back. And yes, you felt that you were about to die, knowing that you carried a gun for self-defense -- would you have used it? Or, and be honest, would you have really allowed Martin to kill you by smashing your head into the concrete pavement?
Write me to tell me if you would have taken what you call the coward's way out - or would you have not done everything that you could to stay alive?
If you put yourself in Zimmerman's place, are honest with yourself, and still say that you wouldn't have shot Martin - then you are a bigger coward than most.
Only a true coward, a real loser, wouldn't do everything in his or her power to stay alive when faced with the prospect of death.
Thanks for your comment,
Tom Correa
Editor
Also ...
I find that there are two camps when it come to the whole George Zimmerman / Trayvon Martin case.
The first camp is made of Conservatives who believe that we all have a right, a moral obligation, a duty, to use "every means" at our disposal to fend off danger and protect our lives.
We in that camp understand that "every means" also means using a gun if we have one.
The second camp is made up of Liberals who believe that while it is OK to kill a helpless child before birth, and forgive those on Death Row, that we are duty bound to run away if we can -- and of course, if that is useless, they feel that we should simply allow aggressors to kill us without a fight using everything at our means.
I believe that Liberals would have rather seen George Zimmerman die, be found dead after having his head caved in, than see him defend himself with a gun or a knife or a brick or whatever.
For the record ...
Since I have been asked, let me answer.
The fights that I have been in were never something called "friendly fights." I have never been in, nor ever seen, such a thing called a "friendly fight."
Each and every fight that I have ever been in, I immediately understood that the man who I was fighting wanted to hurt or kill me.
And yes, I in turn obliged them meeting force with force and moreso - all with the same intent.
I never tried to hit and run, or shake their hands afterwards. I was taught that anything short of fighting "all out" is a waste of time.
Those who have tried to hurt me in the past fully understand that I don't believe in rules when trying to preserving my life - or protecting those I hold dear.
Maybe it is my Marine training, but I truly believe that one who does not fight with every means available, to the fullest extent of his or her abilities, is the real coward!
Some call my training barbaric and vicious in a civilized world, but frankly I expect one to fight in an altercation with the same zeal and effort, wanting to use any and every means at their disposal, the same as if they were fighting cancer - with the desire to stop it or kill it.
That's just how I see it.
Tom Correa
George Zimmerman was defending himself. Trayvon Martin was beating him up because he thought Zimmerman was following him and harassing him. Hours before being shot, he bought a bag of Skittles and a bottle of Arizona tea. And for those of you that are wondering, yes Tom never said that George Zimmerman was a hero of any kind but then again he's not NOT saying it. Trayvon Martin was a coward for putting his hands on George Zimmerman. How can you beat up someone you think is following you that has a gun? You know you're gonna die! And I don't wish to offend the Martin family but they could have done better. So at the end of the day, I guess we can all agree that while George Zimmerman may not be proud of what he had to do, he did what he had to do anyway. I rest my case. As always, Benny Bence.
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