igor2003 -> RE: "Stand Your Ground" law under attack.... (5/1/2012 6:50:50 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Moonhead The fact that Zimmerman is the one standing trial rather than the corpse could well be taken as evidence that it didn't happen that way. If somebody's following you about and you can't get away from them, I suspect that if you get him down, you don't stop pounding his head off the floor until you know he won't be giving you any more aggro. Wrong. Police in many, many jurisdictions would call that battery at best...attempted murder at worst. If you're not armed and someone attacks, you can defend yourself enough to get them down. When they are down, if you don't stop, you've exceeded the confines of self defense. Wrong. If you are not armed and someone attacks, you can defend yourself enough to stop the attack. Just because they are down doesn't mean they aren't still fighting. If they are down and keep fighting, you keep fighting. Also, some of the Zimmerman defenders (I'm not going to go back to find exactly which ones) have said that if Zimmerman was down and being beaten, his adrenalin was probably pumping making it seem to him that, even though he was not actually being hurt all that seriously, he thought his life was in danger...enough so that it excuses him for using his gun to kill Martin. So why is it that by being chased and hunted, at night in the rain, for some reason unknown to him, the adrenalin in Martin's system is not considered an excuse for continuing to hit Zimmerman even though he is down? Which of the two...a teenage kid or a supposed adult...should be better able to have rational thought under those circumstances?
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