[Travis McGee]

If you are smart, and you have a CCW, (as do I and many here), you have to accont for Mas Ayoob’s “Problem #2.”

It will wind up at the GJ, yes? If you are involved in a SD shooting, you don’t want to go to prison, yes?

Then you must be very careful how you initiate a chain of events that leads to your SD shooting, or else you risk torpedoing your own SD case.

Even if Trayvon came running at Zimmerman and tackled him, in the last ten seconds, the Grand Jury is not going to only look at those ten seconds. The case will be made that Zimmerman initiated all that followed by following Martin.

Sorry, but that is REALITY. Especially in this racially charged climate.

Or, you can be like Jonathan Gray, above, and be “dead right,” or in this case, “right, in prison.”

[cport]

In a sane world, there will be no need to convene a grand jury, seeing as there was no arrest, as determined by the police and later the DA. Apparently, there is no new evidence beyond what was available then. Unless there is a video that comes out of the woodwork, there is no reason to indict, except for political pressure.

To be able to "prepare for the chain of events", it seems one would require LEO type training, ie, making sure the shoot is good and procedure is followed. Are you implying that before a citizen can procure a CCW for self defense, they should be required to go through above and beyond the normal weapon safety and law awareness training? That is a slippery slope, my friend. He could have been dead right procedure-wise by leaving his weapon in the truck, but he may have been dead being right.