ATippett56
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You decide whether his action was warranted:From the reports, it was a Random shooting, though they do live in a less than ideal part of Miami where they are paying the bills for their apartment. Sometimes people have to make do with what they can afford. Not everyone can live in a 4 br. house over-looking the ocean in Miami.
Why was he carrying a concealed weapon? Because its his right as an American Citizen to do so.
Its pretty stupid to judge someone on a situation you don't have any information on. You have no idea what the situation was that he grew up in. You made comments about someone else's bias clouding their judgement, yet it seems that you are the one who has some serious bias in this case. You've made some pretty big assumptions that you just can't support.
1) You've assumed he's a gang banger
2) You've assumed that because he has a LICENSE for a concealed weapon and has one, that he's some kind of bad person.
3) You've assumded that he was at fault for the attack on himself and his friends.
http://cbs.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/9691498
According to reports, Meriweather was inside his house (with teammate Willie Cooper) when they noticed a suspicious car outside. Where I'm from, that's when you lock the doors and call the police. But these two guys -- non-thugs, we'll call them -- decided to go outside and see if anybody was stepping to them, which is when Meriweather pulled a gun from his pants and returned fire on a man who shot Cooper in the buttocks. So is Meriweather really the guy you're defending, the guy who grabbed a gun and went outside at 6:30 a.m., to apparently confront a suspicious car? You say he saved his friend's life. I say he endangered his friend's life by grabbing a gun and saying something to the affect of, "Yo, let's go out there and see what's up with that suspicious car." But whatever. All I know is that if a suspicious car comes outside my house, I'm not walking outside. Ever. But then again, I have very little street cred.