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Originally Posted by BourbonBoy
What worries me is the precedent this sets. Now all anyone has to do is say, "I felt threatened" to justify the murder of anyone.
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Except that's not supposed to be the bar. It isn't just "I felt threatened", or else anybody who says "hi" on an elevator can expect to get blown away.
It has to be a situation in which there's a reasonable expectation that the other person was about to kill him or do grievous bodily harm. Reasonable in that other people should be able to agree that it makes sense a person felt that way. Taking a punch or two or getting some scratches is harm but it is not grievous bodily harm.
That Zimmerman initiated the confrontation, especially in contradiction of the orders he was given during the phone call, made him the aggressor. You don't get to start a fight and then pull a gun when it looks like you're losing. He stalked and killed a kid and that's super terrible.