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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Z was chasing TM through the neighborhood! Since when do you chase a person with no intent to apprehend them, especially when you are armed? That is illogical. If TM threw the first punch after being chased then, if anything TM was responding in self -defense. If you are chasing me, with a gun, and I turn around and punch you, how is that anything but self-defense? When the fight continues and you are getting a beat down, you do not have the right to retaliate with a gun. [/quote]

[quote]Since when do you chase a person with no intent to apprehend them, especially when you are armed?  [/quote]
When you want to find out what they're doing in the neighborhood?

[quote]If TM threw the first punch after being chased then, if anything TM was responding in self -defense. If you are chasing me, with a gun, and I turn around and punch you, how is that anything but self-defense?[/quote]I have no idea if this is true, but I'm not prepared to take your word for it without some authority, especially given that your previous postings (if you're the same pp) have been rife with unsupported assumptions.  If anything, it likely would depend in the specifics of the "chase" which, again, we don't know.  Also, we we now assuming that GZ had the gun out when chasing Trayvon?  How do we know that?

[quote]When the fight continues and you are getting a beat down, you do not have the right to retaliate with a gun.[/quote]Again, read the ststute.  In certain cases, a person absolutely has that right.

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So basically if any potential victim fights back against an attacker, the attacker is immunized from prosecution.  Great.[/quote]

Yeah the law didn't account for that possibility. Only the possibility that the victim was indeed much smaller than the attacker and needed to use deadly force to save him or herself.

If Trayvon felt threatened and knew Zimmerman was following him then why was he on the phone with his girlfriend? Why wouldn't he call his parents or the police? It still just doesn't add up.

It sounds like Trayvon was startled by Zimmerman and vice versa. Zimmerman pulled the trigger thinking he was threatened when in fact he wasn't.

Unless there is proof that Zimmerman isn't innocent (e.g. the 911 tapes or a witness contradicts a part of his story) it would be hard to convict given the current law and his word against a dead-man's word.[/quote]

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