If you chase someone down, it's hard to claim self defense...

[chucklenut]

By this I guess you blame a woman wearing a sexy dress for getting raped. She could have avoided the situation by wearing sneakers and sweats.

wtf are you babbling about? did you just compare this case to a rape? what? am i reading this right.

how bout some facts and common sense here.

dude not only followed martin in his vehicle (which is legal to do), that douchebag got out of his car to confront a suspicious looking character (which might still be "legal" but its a horrible life choice). i might be a tough guy and all, but im not so retarded as to walk up on someone who might be out for no good. i do my best to avoid a confrontation. as soon as zimmerman got out of his vehicle, he endangered himself and everyone around him (a bullet has to land somewhere, if you dont get into a fight, you wont have to pull your gun at all. at that point the chance of you using your gun is zero)

 

[007]

If he had a rifle he would not have had to chase him.

 

[cvpadge]

What if zimmerman had been shot and killed by martin. A large man came running up on him at night with a gun and he felt his life was threatened? just something to think about

 

[a|ex]

sorry i'm late in this discussion, but for someone to stop and ask what are you doing here is a rude way of asking if they are residents or a guest. i can see how a teen could get insulted. let me explain, i used to live in a gated community in FL. i have in the past stopped and asked a group of teens if they are residents or guests. this was after a repeated occurrence of vandalism in our community pool. a private community is not a public street where anyone can wander into. it is common practice to ask strangers who they are or if they need help. it's impossible to know what martin's reply back to zimmerman was. but knowing there was a fight can only lead to an assumption that martin wasn't being polite. replying with an attitude will escalate a conflict.

the teens i have questioned usually reply back very rudely and usually vandalism happens the following weekend. this was during the day within view of other residents, so i had no fear of being attacked. but if the situation presented itself, i would have be in zimmerman's shoes. when it was clear the kids did not belong there, i escorted them out of the community. if they refused, then i would have called the police and they knew that. no, i did not carry a firearm. no need to when it's easy to collapse a larynx or rupture a main artery with a single blow. i don't trust violent kids. they can easily kill, especially a 17 year old with an athletic build.

someone asked, if a large mexican with a gun came after you, what would you do? i would run fast, very fast.

in my experience, zimmerman had every right to question the teen. race was not a factor, it was a multi-racial community.

 

[chucklenut]

If he had a rifle he would not have had to chase him.

thats horrible, lol

 

[gilley]

What if zimmerman had been shot and killed by martin. A large man came running up on him at night with a gun and he felt his life was threatened? just something to think about

then you wouldnt hear anything about it. bc its not a black man dead

 

[cvpadge]

then you wouldnt hear anything about it. bc its not a black man dead

agreed.

 

[captdave77]

Theres only one person who knows what really happened but since we're assmuing here lets assume this. You're walking home from the store in the middle of the night minding your own business and some hot headed fatass mexican with a gun on his side and a chip on his shoulder comes up running his cock sucker to u. Chances are youre gonna get defensive too. I am not taking the kids side cause i dont really give a ****. he probably wouldve ended up dead or in jail before he was 20 anyway. But this dumbass zimmerman shouldnt get off scott free. He shouldve watched from a distance and if the kid start doing something wrong then confronted him about it.

I must have missed the part in The Constitution where an angry mob gets to decide the fate of a citizen.

It is not illegal to ask someone who does not live in your gated community what the **** he is doing inside the gates in the middle of the night. It is not illegal to defend yourself and it is not illegal to shoot someone kicking the **** out of you. What ****ing law did he break?

I guess we should put Zimmerman in jail to appease the race pimps.

 

[d2076]

what I want to know is why the media or, pimp Sharpton, or babies daddy Jackson, doesn't protest the other 93% of crimes against their people . Oh wait that is becuase those crimes are committed by their people against their people. we wouldn't want everyone to know the truth now would we.

 

[Stuckon22]

All of this is an excuse for them to act out, with no repercussions. Watch this escalate unless some leadership in our country uses some common sense to call bullsh&t what this is. Pimps pimps pimps!