I’m not personally paying attention to the media, as my main source of information on this topic is Free Republic and I don’t watch tv.
I just don’t see it as many of you do.
I’m in agreement that Martin should not have done it, but don’t believe most of us would have done any differently under the circumstances. If it had been many of the Freepers being followed, Zimmerman might have eaten a bullet, due to his stupidity.
WHAT??? wouldn't have done any differently? OH, YEAH, right....how OLD are YOU?
Here is where I think you are wrong.
If I am being followed at night, my first thought is robbery, and my attention focuses on escape. Even when I am armed, I want to avoid any confrontation and just escape from the follower. Even when I was in my teens this was my thinking.
Trayvon was less the 100 yards from his house, and had lost his follower in the darkness. In any event, he knew he could outrun any tubby short guy.
So does Trayvon run home and elude his pursuer? No, in fact from the timeline I have seen, where Zimmerman lost him for 5 minutes while he was less than 100 yards from his house, it appears that he circled back and lay in wait for Zimmerman to return to his car.
My money is on the scenario that Zimmerman had committed no crime right up until the moment that Trayvon hit him with a punch. Zimmerman went down and Trayvon started beating him while he was on the ground.
When and if we ever see the autopsy results they will show that Trayvon had Zimmerman's blood on his hands from punching him, that his hands show bruises consistent with hitting another man, and that there are powder burns on one hand, maybe both, resulting from fighting for control of the pistol right before he got shot.
At no time did Zimmerman commit a crime, but Trayvon assaulted him, Zimmerman defended himself, and Trayvon got shot while committing a crime.
I actually think more people here, once they'd lost Zimmerman (which was stated on the recorded phone call), would have hightailed it home, not gone back and sought out Zimmerman....especially a 17 year old.
All you want to do is get away and to safety. Once you've lost the guy following you, you don't go find him again!
I doubt many Freepers would RUN because a lone adult in a vehicle was following them in plain sight of everyone in the neighborhood. I know I wouldn't.
I would, however, turn around and ask if they were lost and if I could help them.
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I also doubt many FReepers would cold-cock the guy from behind, jump on him, break his nose and pummel him to the point he feared for his life.
In the future, please keep your perverted broad brush to yourself.
Thank you.
“If it had been many of the Freepers being followed, Zimmerman might have eaten a bullet, due to his stupidity.”
So what you’re saying then is it’s OK to turn around and shoot someone who’s following you. They haven’t touched you or gotten near you, they are just following you. And you can shoot them.
Following a stranger in your neighborhood is now a capital offense? So, if I watched a strange car moving real slowly on my street, they can shoot me because I'm "following" them?
Being "stupid" is not a crime and I know of many more FReepers who would have more respect for the law than to actually shoot someone just for following them.
Do you even read what you're writing?