No, me neither. Just seemed like another role to me, like the 8th Planet of the Apes movie or something.
I remember back in the day seeing Ben Hur at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, classic big screen film at a classic movie house. Fantastic.
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We are an absurd country
About 20 years ago I was driving in Baltimore and not in Wire country 
but near Camden Yards while we stopped before a traffic light a car pulled up next to us with 3 guys in it exchanging guns 
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We were in a SUV so we had a perfect view on it, so strange for a bunch of then middle-aged Europeans.
It’s the culture that should face charges, not grieving parents who are victims and so part of that fucked up backwards culture. Of course, the law doesn’t work like that obviously, but it is more my ethical thinking. The very idea that guns in the US are not required by law to be stored in a weapons locker and the fact that Americans find storing guns in weapons lockers culturally offensive, is that reason why nearly all of these particular kind of shootings happen. Only Massachussets requires it by law I read.
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He should be in an asylum. What the serious fuck.
Edit: I made an unecessary comment about the US and and how i don’t understand why people from northern Europe want to live there unless they have really good reasons. Wasn’t meant to be offensive, but maybe it was. If so sorry. I deleted it as it’s nothing to discuss here really.
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What.the.actual.fuck?
Just the latest reason I decline invitations to come spend time in Florida in the winter.
It’s important to stress this was not a jury of his peers (fellow fuckwits) who acquitted him, but a DA deciding they couldn’t make a case against him despite him calculatingly opening fire on another car while driving on what appears to be a busy freeway. Whatever people think the Stand Your Ground law is supposed to do, no one surely thinks this is what it is supposed to enable.
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I’m from Northern Europe and have lived in the States for 14 yrs now. We had a good life in the UK. University educated, decent jobs, originally from the Wirral, lived over the years in Worcestershire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire before moving here.
My wife is American and we moved here for personal reasons (big story, but nearly lost our daughter when she was younger, thankfully she recovered, but it prompted a personal move as my wife wanted to move to closer to where her family was located).
We live in a nice town, and it is always ranked highly on national lists of places to live, factoring in crime rates, education, job opportunities, taxes, policing, property prices and those sort of metrics.
The house we bought cost a lot less than the house we sold in the UK and is more than double the size, with mature trees, the right amount of mowing, and a neighborhood pool that we don’t have to maintain just steps away.
We have more disposable income and there are tons of restaurants and things to do. The kids sports leagues are really well run and as a Liverpool fan I watch every Liverpool game as they are all broadcast here, and even if I have to work it is easy to have it going on my iPad, depending on what I am doing. The country is vast and beautiful, and over the years we have visited most of it - beaches, mountains, plains, cities, lakes, forests, hiking, wildlife…
There are things here that are nuts, and that’s what is at the top of the European mindset when thinking about America.
Health care costs way too much, though the care is generally excellent.
Gun crime is and culture is stupid. (It is mostly confined to the place where you live, horrible to say, but poor neighborhoods are disproportionately affected, and since I have lived here there have been no issues that have been remotely close to me. Obviously that could change and there could be something catastrophic, but the risk is very small).
The culture wars are stupid too, to my European mind. Living here I have found plenty of people who are reasonable and sane though.
Anyway, c’est la vie!
We were very happy in the UK and would be very happy to live there again, or Spain, or France, or Australia, or America… etc.
For us, it’s what you make of it. And there’s plenty of good things here in the States, despite the crazy stuff that gets a lot of exposure.
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What a fucking psychopath. He’s obviously going to kill someone sooner or later. 
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There are a multitude of absurdities to this story but even if we somehow accept that SYG works in this case (which I doubt it does but Florida is ran by crazy people so I don’t know) - how is not charged with anything? The car that beeps at him clearly got cut off by Popper undertaking him.
If this man’s response to getting beeped at after nearly causing an accident for dangerous lane changing is to pull out his handgun and patiently wait for the other car to come close to him and fire into its window then he clearly can’t handle the stress of driving.
The very, very least they could do is revoke his driving license.
I also see his was a firefighter at the time of this incident. Once again, astonishing. This is a person we are supposed to believe is there to protect the public. He’s retired from that role now, undoubtedly because they would have fired him had he not gone voluntarily.
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To be fair, it happened in Miami and those roads are enough to break the sanest of people.
Again, this is Miami, the land of not needing to worry about trivialities like having a licence 
Lots of shootings in Liverpool on a regular basis also… and that is reflective of the way the law is breaking down in the city
still haven’t the foggiest idea why my ex-wife lives there.
I’ve spent quite a bit of time in Florida, and it is my least favourite place on earth, even worse than Skegness.
Diagonally opposite Vancouver on the continent, so I take it the divorce went well?
it’s quite a coincidence, but I’m not complaining. worked out best for both of us.
WOW. Reporting now that the raid was in relation to child porn. It is also being reported that the writer of this piece knew this, but agreed she didnt have it verified enough to state it. She did however, get agreement that the piece would make clear that it was unrelated to his area of work. That all appears to have been cut by her editor who allowed the insinuation to be aired this was a political hatchet job by the DOJ squeezing journalists. The writer walked away from RS within a week in response to the shoddy treatment of her piece.