Stand Your Ground

There's something really wrong with Florida. Zombies, bath fitter or whatever that drug is called and yet another case that people are saying resembles the Trayvon Martin shooting.

45 year old Michael Dunn was at the convenience store with his girlfriend and asked a car full of teenagers to turn down the volume. Apparently they weren't down with what that jive turkey was gobblin', so that led to an argument between Dunn and 17 year old Jordan Davis who was sitting in the back seat.

Anyway, Dunn allegedly felt threatened and opened fire. Not once, not twice, but about 8 or 9 times before driving away. Davis, who was shot twice, died in the car.

That, my friends, is fucked up. Especially because Dunn is claiming the whole "stand your ground" law, so who knows if anything will happen to this guy.

Now I know what a car full of teenagers can be like. They can be asshats and act all tough and talk back. They're teenagers, what would you expect? That's not to say that they deserved what happened, because they didn't.

All I'm saying is that Dunn, a grown 45 year old man, should know better than to squabble back. If the kids aren't listening, if they're being douchy and disrespectful, don't give them the time of day. You've said your piece, you're the adult -move on. What's more, if he genuinely felt threatened, why didn't he just drive away? He certainly had no trouble driving away after shooting EIGHT OR NINE TIMES.

I'm not going to lie, I'm sure there's more to the story than what's been published thus far. Maybe he really did feel threatened by the kids if one or more of them claimed to have a weapon. Maybe his ego was hurt and Dunn, being a gun collector, whipped his cock out and got a little overexcited.

But the thing that bothers me the most is that the majority of these articles start out by saying who's white and who's black. For all we know this wasn't racially motivated like the Trayvon Martin shooting which had a clear racial bias on the shooters' part. Yes, I understand that the dead kid is black, that the shooter is white and he's saying that he stood his ground, but that's where the similarities seem to end.

Dunn didn't chase this kid down, he didn't continually go out of his way on this mission to "clean the town" of vagrants or whatever. He simply asked if the kids could turn down the volume -something anyone would ask in a public place.

Trayvon was by himself, Jordan had about 4 other people with him.

Trayvon was walking home, minding his own business, Jordan was in the parking lot of a convenience store in a car that was blasting music.

Trayvon was out for skittles and ice tea, Jordan was waiting for his girlfriend to buy wine.

You see how different the story becomes when you decide not to frame the incident according to a racially biased one from several months ago?