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In reply to the discussion: I dont think Trayvon's friend is helping the case much. [View all]Boudica the Lyoness
(2,899 posts)They are looking for an easy mark and the last thing they want is confrontation. Martin was a young man and probably thought he was pretty tough and could scare the "creepy cracker" off by briefly confronting him. In Martin's mind, Zimmerman was a creepy little stalker and in Zimmerman's mind, Martin was a dangerous criminal.
Zimmerman had no intent to kill Martin. He wasn't stalking him with intent to kill, otherwise he would have had his gun out and Martin wouldn't have been able to land blows on Zimmerman. As a person who has held a loaded gun on someone to protect myself, you have the gun aimed at someone to stop the threat from getting close enough to do you harm. Martin would not have confronted him if he knew he had a gun.........no way in hell would he have............let alone made physical contact.
If Zimmerman was following him with intent to kill, he would have had his gun drawn. If he had his gun drawn, Martin would have run!
I'm using logic here, so bare with me.... If Martin had "lost" Zimmerman, there wouldn't be a trail right now. Martin would have returned to the All Star game and eaten his Skittles and Zimmerman would still be wandering around looking for bad guys.