False Sense of Security

[Syne]

It may cause people to take unnecessary risks or discount the severity of risks they’re taking, by having a false sense of security. George Zimmerman comes to mind - a guy who more than likely would not have followed a teenager through his neighborhood (whom he deemed as sketchy), and then provoking a fight with said teenager, if he (George) hadn’t been carrying a gun.

This isn’t to say all gun owners think like this, but it might be more common than we think.

Interesting because both may have had a false sense of security.

With one more accurate than the other.

[Leigha]

It may cause people to take unnecessary risks or discount the severity of risks they’re taking, by having a false sense of security. George Zimmerman comes to mind - a guy who more than likely would not have followed a teenager through his neighborhood (whom he deemed as sketchy), and then provoking a fight with said teenager, if he (George) hadn’t been carrying a gun.

This isn’t to say all gun owners think like this, but it might be more common than we think.

Zimmerman was acquitted. And stand your ground laws allow you to go anywhere you're legally allowed, even following suspicious people, without any duty to flee from someone threatening you. Otherwise, your freedom is limited by anyone who threatens your safety. Those who trade freedom for safety deserve neither. No one knows, for a fact, that Zimmerman provoked anything.

Everyone should feel free to go anywhere in public without fear.

He was wrongfully acquitted, imo. Trayvon Martin could’ve been scared, an armed guy was following him for no valid reason. Maybe Martin was standing his ground?

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It may cause people to take unnecessary risks or discount the severity of risks they’re taking, by having a false sense of security. George Zimmerman comes to mind - a guy who more than likely would not have followed a teenager through his neighborhood (whom he deemed as sketchy), and then provoking a fight with said teenager, if he (George) hadn’t been carrying a gun.

This isn’t to say all gun owners think like this, but it might be more common than we think.

Interesting because both may have had a false sense of security.

Valid point, but do you think Zimmerman would’ve stalked Trayvon Martin that night had he not been carrying a gun? I don’t.

Sorry to go off topic though. I just thought that fits a good example of a false sense of security.

[Syne]

Zimmerman was acquitted. And stand your ground laws allow you to go anywhere you're legally allowed, even following suspicious people, without any duty to flee from someone threatening you. Otherwise, your freedom is limited by anyone who threatens your safety. Those who trade freedom for safety deserve neither. No one knows, for a fact, that Zimmerman provoked anything.

Everyone should feel free to go anywhere in public without fear.

He was wrongfully acquitted, imo. Trayvon Martin could’ve been scared, an armed guy was following him for no valid reason. Maybe Martin was standing his ground?

Then you're ignorant of the relevant laws and evidence. Period.

The courts ruled. And you said:

From a spiritual view:

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. Romans 13:1–2

I've come to view that passage as God doesn't want us to respect those in authority necessarily because they're good people (I don't think Joe Biden is a bad person, however, but he's flawed like the rest of us) rather, God wants us to respect that He allowed that person into a leadership role.

God put the judges in their position of authority, right? So why don't you respect the ruling as God's will?


You can't cherry-pick what you believe is God's will and what isn't.

[Leigha]

My opinion that the jury “got it wrong” doesn’t diminish my faith. Lol What? o_O

They're lay people like you and me...and sometimes, juries get it wrong. But, that's just my opinion.

[Syne]

My opinion that the jury “got it wrong” doesn’t diminish my faith. Lol What? o_O

They're lay people like you and me...and sometimes, juries get it wrong. But, that's just my opinion.

So God's will is done in politicians gaining power, but not in a jury being empaneled? Doesn't the jury have authority granted by the court...which according to you, is granted by God?