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

[brett_jv]

94. I'd like to believe that ...

But nobody in their right mind attacks someone that they KNOW has a gun esp. when they have NO weapon, and esp. not when that gun is out and visible. What you describe is, in my very humble opinion, not a likely scenario ... no offense

I do think though that he was in fear from GZ (apparently in the end he had great reason TO fear him) and I have no trouble believing TM threw the first punch because he was in fear, and taking pre-emptive action. Rachel had just put the idea in his head that GZ was a rapist, for one thing, and TM himself had just (rather famously) told her the guy following him was 'creepy'. I just don't think TM knew about the gun until seconds before it was blowing a hole in his chest.

It's funny, I was watching Chicago the other night, and you know the scene where Roxie is like a puppet on the Gere's character's lap, and they're singing the song where it's like they're practicing for the trial, and it goes 'we both reached for the gun, the gun, the gun' (even though it's total BS)?

I was reminded then just how old and tired that particular line of defense is ... and I thinking that probably 99% of the time it's used ... it's bullshit. I feel like an attorney should be laughed out of the courtroom for putting such cliched nonsense forward.