If you have a gun and the other guy doesn't . . .

[TorchTheWitch]

146. First, he wasn't being beaten up

And both the photographs of his insignificant injuries as well as the testimony of two doctors (one of whom was his own) along with no evidence on Martin's hands that he was beaten up show that he was not beaten up and most certainly not to the extent that he claimed.

Other than that, the LAST LAST LAST thing he should have done was fire his gun. Zimmerman trained for over a year in MMA style defense. Even without that, what would anyone do if they DIDN'T have a gun? Zimmerman by his own admission did NOTHING to stop the physical confrontation he went looking for and started other than fire his gun. By his own admission the only thing he did in trying to stop what he claims was a horrific beating was nothing more than wiggle his head off the pavement. That's it.

Further, Zimmerman had two opportunities to defuse the situation at the outset and didn't. Despite his being the neighborhood watch dude at no time did he ever even attempt to reassure Martin that he was just the neighborhood watch dude and not some creepy nutter desiring to do him harm.

Zimmerman went hunting for Martin. He profiled him as a criminal showing malice and ill intent, got out of his car, chased him down and confronted him defying everything he was taught and knew about what as a neighborhood watch person he was not supposed to do. Had he merely minded his own fucking business and stayed in his damn car Martin would have just continued home and Zimmerman would just have continued to his shopping trip at Target. But no, Zimmerman wanted to play vigilante cop wannabe and everything that occurred afterward was solely HIS responsibility. And after he killed Martin not because he was in fear of his life or great bodily harm after not taking ANY of his other opportunities to either diffuse the situation, keep himself from encountering Martin in the first place nor use any other physical means other than his gun, he killed Martin and then chose not only to lie about it but go on national tv and tell the world he has no regrets, would do it all over again and that is was God's plan.

You know what you can do with your gripe about what Zimmerman was expected to do. What any normal thinking reasonable person would have expected him to do is minded his own fucking business and not gone out of his way to see suspicion in a black teenager walking home in the drizzling rain and never even bothered to call the police in the first fucking place never mind everything that HE did after.

It was Zimmerman's gun that gave him the guts to get out of his car, pursue Martin, confront him and everything that came after as well as everything that came before the very moment he got out of his car was because of his gun. And any reasonable person is expected to accept "oops, sorry" as an excuse for profiling, pursuing, confronting and murdering a child over a couple of little booboos in a fight HE was responsible for starting? Bullshit.

Your constant defense of this murderous fuck makes me sick.