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Originally Posted by Robbie
I wonder what people here on GFY would do under the same circumstances.
You've already made the "mistake" of having the audacity to get out of your own car and follow a guy on a public street that you are part of the neighborhood watch.
Now...you start getting the shit beat out of you and you have a gun.
I wonder how many of you would actually just lie there and let Trayvon Martin beat your ass until his arms got tired?
I'm pretty sure that if somebody starts beating the fuck out of me and I have a gun...I'm putting a hole in them. That's what the gun is for. It's the "great equalizer".
I can't help but think some of y'all are being disingenuous when you suggest that GZ should have just allowed TM to beat the fuck out of him. Only a fool would do that.
Better question: What it all the circumstances were exactly the same...except George was a WOMAN.
If it had been Geogette Zimmerman...nobody would be calling Trayvon a "child". He would be known as a "man" and there would be no question that "Georgette" was defending herself when she shot him dead.
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The problem with this point is that the mistake he made is the one that lead specifically to the end result he should be responsible for. I would have listened to the police and disengaged at that point.
It's like a DUI manslaughter. I have driven drunk before. I know as I make the decision to drive in that state that if I hit and kill someone I am responsible. I am responsible even if the accident is not my fault.
I don't' believe GZ was a racist who followed Trayvon because he was black. However the moment he decided to follow this dude against the police's direct order not to he stepped in that car.
This kid would have walked to his father's house alive had it not been for Gz's original decision to be a vigilante in the wrong.