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To: wtc911
Zimmerman was a neighborhood watch captain in a neighborhood where there had been recent burglaries. He sees an unknown person wandering around in the rain looking at houses. He reports the situation to the police and is expecting them to show up shortly. He wants to be able to tell them where the suspicious person is.

What has he done wrong?

If he's telling the truth (as it has been reported by his father and brother), he was attacked by someone who was threatening to kill him--and might have done so if the other guy had managed to get ahold of his gun. It's possible that he did not intend to fire the gun but it went off as Trayvon was trying to get it from him. I don't know that for sure but it is a possibility.

Why, if he was really defending himself from imminent danger of death, should he spend many years in prison just because Al Sharpton and Barack Obama decided to turn this event into a national news story?

As someone else has pointed out, since February 26, over 1,000 black Americans have been killed--by other black Americans. No one is making a lot of noise over them, and many of them probably have grieving relatives.

34 posted on 04/13/2012 9:04:04 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
Why do all you guys go out of your way to create scenarios wherein only one thing could have happened?

Why, without any evidence or witness statements to prove your speculation, are you so certain that Martin (who we do know ran away and was unarmed) suddenly changed his attitude and attacked Zimmerman (who we do know had followed him and was armed)?

Your scenario can only be true if both of them did a 180 from the behavior that we know the displayed, even though there is absolutely no evidence that they did.

Why are you all so positive, without any evidence, that the only possibility is that they both did in fact change their action?

When did proven truth stop being important? Nevermind ---- we know the answer.

36 posted on 04/14/2012 5:43:12 AM PDT by wtc911 (Amigo - you've been had.)
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To: Verginius Rufus
It's possible that he did not intend to fire the gun but it went off as Trayvon was trying to get it from him.

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Isn't it equally possible that Trayvon was trying to disarm the stranger who had been following him? Isn't it equally possible that Trayvon was fighting to keep the stranger from shooting him?

Do you know at what exact moment Trayvon saw the gun? Was it already in Zimmerman's hand? Was Zimmerman about to pull it? Did Zimmerman move his jacket aside to let Trayvon see it? Did he reach?

If any of these possibilities were to be true, wouldn't Trayvon have had the right to defend himself under SYG?

Tell me please why none of this can be possible

37 posted on 04/14/2012 5:52:06 AM PDT by wtc911 (Amigo - you've been had.)
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To: Verginius Rufus
It's possible that he did not intend to fire the gun but it went off as Trayvon was trying to get it from him.

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Isn't it equally possible that Trayvon was trying to disarm the stranger who had been following him? Isn't it equally possible that Trayvon was fighting to keep the stranger from shooting him?

Do you know at what exact moment Trayvon saw the gun? Was it already in Zimmerman's hand? Was Zimmerman about to pull it? Did Zimmerman move his jacket aside to let Trayvon see it? Did he reach?

If any of these possibilities were to be true, wouldn't Trayvon have had the right to defend himself under SYG?

Tell me please why none of this can be possible

38 posted on 04/14/2012 5:53:12 AM PDT by wtc911 (Amigo - you've been had.)
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