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Originally Posted by RendeR
Thats only true if you think he was the one being threatened in some way. Stand your ground is a defensive resort. What was Zimmerman defending?
Meh, it will all come out in the wash. I'm personally offended by people like Zimmerman who think they have some right to act like the law because the government lets them pack a 9mil in his trousers.
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That's to be determined, isn't it? I don't know what he was defending, if anything at all. He showed signs of being in a fight. The law allows him to defend himself. Whether he's entitled to use that law as a defense to having killed someone is for law enforcement and state attorneys to decide. I don't think it's an open-and-shut case just because you pesonally don't like it when people act like this guy did.
Like I said, in many states citizens are permitted to arrest people. Theoretically, this guy could be dressing up like Batman and patrolling the worst parts of the city looking for felons in action, and he could lawfully arrest them. And, I suppose, if they fought back, he could shoot them. I'm not sure that's how I'd spend my evenings, and maybe that scares you more than it does me, but that's more an issue with the law, not the potential outcome of this case, it seems.