I've never believed that Trayvon ran up on Z to throw the "first punch."

[bobclark86]

69. "It doesn't matter who was On Top."

The fucked up thing is this: In the fucked up world of Florida criminal law, it does.

Florida law states (and I'm paraphrasing, obviously), that if you start a fight, then as you get your ass kicked by a string bean high school student who weighs 40 pounds less than you, you can shoot said string bean kid.

It's fucked up, but that's the way those fucktards in Tallahassee wrote their law. Ignoring race for a moment (I know, it's hard, but bear with me), but the fact that the state has such a bullshit law — as paraphrased above, you can pick a fight, but if you start losing you can blast away whoever is on top of you — that's a fucking outrage.

Being that it's a white guy shooting a black kid and nobody even bothers to investigate for a month in a half just adds insult to the injury. Can't say I'm surprised the African-American community (and others who don't carry guns every day) are well beyond pissed. While Zimmerman might be OK from a criminal and civil perspective for what the hard-core gun-humpers call a "good shoot" (which in of itself makes me sick), I'm waiting for the feds to crawl up his ass. They might not get him on a civil rights violation (but they'll try, and I'm definitely cool with that), but there's always the IRS to audit the fuck out of all those donations come April 15.

Unfortunately, Florida doesn't have a law against being stupid (by ignoring a police dispatcher and stalking people). I wonder why not? Oh, wait. Because every GOP teabagger official in the state would have to lock themselves up