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Originally Posted by Robbie
I don't think TM was going to grow up to be a piece of shit.
I think he pretty much acted like millions of teenage boys (both black and white) do.
When I was a teenager I did all that shit too with my group of buddies.
Took baseball bats to mailboxes. Shoplifted candy out of the 7-11. Smoked a LOT of pot. Etc., etc.
That's what young guys running around in packs do.
Then you grow up.
That's why I have said that I don't put anything past a young man. At 17 they can be very, very dangerous.
TM was pretty tame from everything I've seen of his "bad" behavior.
He wasn't close to being as "bad" as I was at that age...and I was considered pretty "good" compared to the shit that the real "bad" kids did in my school.
I think that when he grew out of that phase then whatever his intelligence level is would dictate what the rest of his life would be. If he was smart (and no, school grades don't always reflect that) then he may have had a very successful life.
At minimum he would have probably been like millions of other people and had a job, a wife, and kids 10 years from now.
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I admire your openmindedness, and I think you have a *general* point.
What you've said sortof adds up to believing Trayvon was the more likely one to initiate a physical confrontation though, doesn't it? That it wouldn't seem out of character for him to make aggressive threats like "you're going to die tonight"?
Leaving that aside for a minute, how about him planning to purchase a gun (and/or actually possessing one as the pictures indicate)?
Or actual burglary / breaking into cars?