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Maybe this is completely unfair of me, but I think the moment Zimmerman pursued that guy, he should lose his self-defense argument. Especially after the 9-1-1 dispatcher told him, "We don't need you to do that, sir." Because now Zimmerman seems to be the aggressor in this situation.
So if I'm in Florida and I go to a bar and see a tough-looking guy there, I can basically walk right up to him and call his girlfriend a whore. Because if/when he starts beating the living crap out of me, or I simply feel "threatened", I'm theoretically allowed to shoot him dead with the handgun in my pocket.
I'm probably going too far in my example and perhaps the Florida law wouldn't cover that situation, but the pursuit is the part that gets me. If that guy would have just done NOTHING (and listened to the dispatcher), Trayvon Martin would be alive right now.
Someone needs to start an anti-tourism campaign of, "I'm not going on vacation in Florida because I don't want to get shot by some loony."
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