Are SYG laws weapon agnostic?

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36. Wrong.

I love me some MoJo, but they are seriously biased when it comes to reporting on gun issues:

A juror in the George Zimmerman trial broke her silence Monday night on national TV to say Florida's "stand your ground" laws played a role in the decision to acquit the Sanford neighborhood watch captain.

But the woman, identified only as Juror B37, also said she had "no doubt" Zimmerman feared for his life in the final moments of his struggle with Trayvon Martin, and that was the definitive factor in the verdict. The juror spoke to CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 on Monday.

That matched the assessment of legal experts who earlier Monday were describing the verdict on Saturday as the result of successful, garden-variety self-defense arguments that could sway a jury in any state.
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Experienced prosecutors and law professors agreed that they think jurors were swayed by basic self-defense arguments made by Zimmerman's attorneys: Regardless of who initiated the encounter, at the moment the deadly shot was fired, Zimmerman feared for his life.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/despite-outcry-zimmermans-acquittal-was-not-based-on-stand-your-ground-laws/2131629

The key issue with the jury was that Zimmy convinced them that he was afraid for his life. He claimed he was jumped on and had no avenue of escape. That's what got him off. An SYG defense would involve HAVING an avenue of escape after the initial confrontation, but not using it. Zimmy's defense always claimed he had no avenue of escape once Trayvon supposedly pinned him to the ground. It's a defense that could have worked in any state.

I think he should have gone down for manslaughter just for going out of his way to look for trouble after being told not to, but Murder 2 was a serious overreach on the part of prosecutors and "poisoned the well," so to speak.