Trayvon wasnt exactly innocent , himself. Both Trayvon and George are shady people IMO. I read old tritter posts on Trayvon a while back where a friend of his mentioned how he "swung at" a bus driver. With two people like that in the same night, someone would end up dead. Trayvon happened to be black and George is "white". No one gives a fuck about black on black murder that happens all the fucking time.
I notice that in America, this is being seen seen as a race issue. Over here, I think it's seen more as a gun issue.
The attitude of myself, and those Ive spoke to about this, is how terrible an idea it is to allow petty little vigilantes to carry guns, and then allow them to kill anybody who they claim "are posing a threat to their life."
How many of these petty little gun-toting vigilantes are just desperate for someone to fight back, allowing them, by law, to blow their brains out?
There are uppity punks like Georg, but stand your ground also defends people who really are just defending themselves. Though Trayvon did attack George, so tecnically it was "self defense". America is really fucked up. A criminal can injure themselves breaking in your home, then sue you for the medical bill.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57540638-504083/burglar-sues-calif-homeowner-90-who-returned-fire/
I'm all for defending yourself, but shooting an unarmed boy dead is, IMO, indefensible. In fact, IMO, even if Treyvon had started attacking George, there would have been absolutely no justification for shooting him dead.
I mean, if I was walking back to my home, and some jerk like Zimmerman harassed me, I would tell him to get to fuck. If he persisted, I would go for his throat. With some interpretations of the "stand your ground" law, my harasser would be within the law to kill me
It seems that any jerk with a gun can provoke a violent reaction from a person, and then kill them in "self-defence."