Actually, this thread is not supposed to be about the Zimmerman case. We should go back to the thread with the million posts. Personally, I think there should be a limit of about 300 posts. If you look at a thread and it's 1000+, not many would want to read all of that in order to catch up. Then if people were not done talking about a given topic, they could just start a new thread with a similar name, a variation of some kind- and naturally they would be linked together. A hidden advantage to a thread limit is that the end of it would be kinda like an ebay auction. Almost fun. Who gets the last word? A new and different concept in this crowd.

Stand Your Ground is a bad law because it promotes dishonorable terms of engagement such as were roundly rejected in the Old West for good reason. Because it allows cowards who go looking for trouble with a gun, and can't even withstand a bump on the nose, to shoot and kill an unarmed man. If you are pursuing an unarmed individual with a gun and you end up shooting him, you're automatically in the wrong, whether civilian or law enforcement.