Missourian
Diamond Member
so Missourian, you truly believe that trayvon was trying to murder zimmerman by punching him? That if zimmerman had not had a gun, trayvon would have turned in to a murderer that night and would have murdered zimmerman right there and then?I'll never understand why people want to blame the victim in this situation. The onus to identify himself and explain his reason for being there and for following Trayvon was on the adult and supposed neighborhood watch captain, not on the teenager. It was not up to Trayvon to go up to a strange adult and calmly ask "Why are you following me? What is going on?"
Trayvon was not doing anything wrong. He had no reason to think he was being trageted as a suspect in anything because he was not doing anything illegal or planning any kind of illegal behavior: he was a teenager who went to the mini-mart and that's it. Millions of kids do that every day. He ended up dead for no good reason. Zimmerman should have stayed in his car and waited for the police: that is the bottom line.
The onus was on Trayvon not to violently attack Zimmerman.
Up until that point, neither party had broken the law.
The law was broken when Trayvon's fist impacted Zimmerman's face.
Zimmerman defended himself from that attack.
The end.
I don't buy in to that.....not one itty bitty bit....
First, the law doesn't say murder...it says "fear of death OR GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM"
Do I truly believe that grievous bodily harm could occur from beating a man's head off a concrete sidewalk? Damn skippy I do!
Second, y'all make the terrible mistake of viewing this though the lens of hindsight.
Zimmerman didn't know Trayvon was 17, or that he when to the store, or that he temporarily lived in the complex.
He didn't have a doctor evaluating his condition between blows from Trayvon's assault, informing him of the severity of the damage being inflicted on him.
Or when it was going to stop.
Or when help was coming.
Or if he was going to lose consciousness.
Or what Trayvon would do to him if he did.
DON'T VIOLENTLY ATTACK PEOPLE!!!
Is that SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND???
Trayvon CHOSE to attack Zimmerman.
Zimmerman RESPONDED to that attack.
That is the end of this story.
No amount of rationalization changes that FACT.
That is why Zimmerman was acquitted.
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