Originally Posted By: Nick R
Originally Posted By: Mykl
Originally Posted By: Nick R
Then I can only hope that any child you have/may have never suffer the same fate, and you watch while the man who killed your child gets to walk free and never suffer any consequences for his actions because the other person claims "self defense"
Again, this IS zimmermans fault. He instigated it, and I don't truly believe that he is innocent. I believe he is guilty, he WANTED to kill Martin from the second he thought "punk isn't getting away". But because the law is "innocent until proven guilty" there wasn't enough physical evidence to convict.
If my son is a thug who assaults someone when verbally provoked, then I would consider myself a failure as a parent. That would be my sorrow, not that my son got shot by a guy who was defending himself against my failure.
Zimmerman may be at fault for Martin's death, but he was apparently not guilty of any crime. If you kick in my door I will be at fault for your death, but I will not be guilty of any crime.
Please. Here is the deal here.
The key here is innocent until proven guilty, and reasonable doubt.
Basically, because this man claims self defense, there has to be evidence to prove otherwise. Right? Now nobody else saw this. At all. So he CLAIMS that Martin attacked him. Do we know if he did or not? Nope. Will we ever? Nope. Was zimmerman actually shooting in TRUE self defense? Possibly. Do I think he was? No.
Here is the problem with the stand your ground law as written. Basically, Zimmerman was able to claim that it was self defense, and because there is NO EVIDENCE to the contrary, he gets away with it. He wanted to shoot Martin, it's obvious. Who is irresponsible enough to walk around with a loaded gun? Or did he specifically load the gun, because he had every intention of shooting zimmerman. Maybe Zimmerman grabbed Martin, and martin fought back, like any reasonable person would. And then zimmerman shot him.
The truth is NOBODY KNOWS. The reason he was acquitted? Lack of physical evidence. All the logic and reason based on Zimmermans history of a wannabe cop and obvious lies says that he is guilty. But physical evidence? Not enough of it.
So he walks free.
This has nothing to do with stand your ground, it was either self defense or not. The defense doesn't have to prove anything, it has always been that way.
