Post by Charles BellZimmerman had every right to ask: "What are you doing here?" to which
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No, he did not. Zimmerman did not live in the gated community.
Under Florida law *Martin* had every right to resist Zimmerman with
deadly force. Here's the law:
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| (3) A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity
| and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has
| a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to
| stand his or her ground and meet force with force,
| including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it
| is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm
| to himself or herself or another or to prevent the
| commission of a forcible felony.
|
<http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0700-0799/0776/Sections/0776.013.html>
Martin, if carrying a legal gun, would have had every right to shoot
Zimmerman down in his tracks.
Note that it's only necessary that Martin *reasonably believe*
that he was under threat of great bodily harm. And considering
that Zimmerman got out of his truck, was armed and was trying to
apprehend him --and at the end of the day killed him--, this seems
a very reasonable belief indeed!
The cops completely blew this case at the crime scene. They won't
be able to convict Zimmerman of murder, but that doesn't mean it
wasn't murder.
--bks