I certainly could.

Look at it from the other perspective. A guy is following you, you have no idea who he is or why he is after you. He zooms in and starts yelling at you and coming up to you. It's dark and raining. I'd bust the bastard in the face and knock him on his ass. Then I'd be on him beating the living crap out of him. WTF? How do I know what he wants, looks like he wanted to attack me, I'm sure as hell not going to stand there and let him. That's how you get mugged, or killed, someone gets in your personal space and is aggressive, you either run like hell or try to beat the crap out of them before they beat you down....and I can't run, bad knees.

I've lived in some very scary areas, been mugged a couple of times, ended up in the hospital getting 70 some stitches in my head because I let some idiot walk right up to me and knock me in the head with a metal rod. I was an idiot, knew something was going on, but I just stood there and I got my ass beat to hell. Never saw the metal thing until it was swinging at my face.

Was Martin just supposed to let some asshole run up to him while yelling and take whatever happened? Using deadly force to stop an ass kicking isn't EVER justified. Using it to stop from getting killed....might be. We have all seen the pictures of the asshole that did the shooting, he wasn't getting killed. He doesn't have a fricken scratch on him, even if his nose was broken...big effing deal. I've had my nose broken 3 times. Deserved it once. I certainly didn't kill the people who broke it...even the 2 times I didn't deserve it.

Under the "rules" that the steadfast supporters of Zimmerman are using, if Martin would have killed Zimmerman....he would have to be let go as well. That's a crazy set of "rules" for any country to live by. Start a fight and kill the other guy then claim you did it in self defense. Murder just got easy and free. All you have to do is let the other guy hit you once, or swing and miss even....then blow his god damn brains out and go home laughing.

American cities will burn soon

Thanks Obama. Thanks!!!!!!!

 

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When a life is lost, the investigation needs to be thorough and as transparent as possible. That was not done here, hence the real reason for outrage, for me.

 

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I'm torn on this issue.

On one hand Zimmerman probably murdered that kid.

On the other hand it was just a black kid.

 

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I think it should be illegal for neighborhood watch people to carry firearms. Tazers or pepper spray should be the most they are allowed to carry. In fact I think that their ONLY JOB should be to call the police when they see suspicious people and not intervene

Still I think both parties are to blame

Zimmerman for harassing Trayban and Trayban for attacking Zimmerman. Most likelyh Zimmerman was defending himself after getting his ass kicked in the fight but it wont matter. The mob requires blood and their version of justice is Zimmerman hanging from a tree

 

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An armed society is such a polite society...

 

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So it's better to have Hispanics rioting instead?

 

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The media and black people call him white so he must be!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who are we to argue?

 

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so ptilk, how long/many blows should Zimmerman counted before shooting? Should he have been required to cary and hook a portable EKG or something to monitor his condition and only fired after 1/2 of the lines went flat?

 

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Proper etiquette says three head blows before shooting.

 

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