his bad decisions make him responsible for the death of another human being. i don't know anyone who thinks he set out to do this...but his choices are what caused this..much the same a drunk driver,,,they don't plan on hurting anybody, but because of their poor choices sometimes peole die,,, and they are held accountable for it...just as i feel zimmerman should be..It almost seems like we all agree on that...but for some reason some want to blame trayvon and bring up his past etc...when it makes no difference..he did not start the ball going on this thing...would we ever blame a person killed by a drunk driver...would we say,, well they shouldn't have been there,, i wonder what they were going to do that night,, etc...oh look they smoked pot in the past, they must have somehow done something wrong...
Everyone who agrees that GZ is guilty on a witch hunt, NO NOT EVERYONE agrees on this at all.
And using your example: If someone runs out in front of a car and is struck NO the driver is not guilty.
SO
Until we get all the facts, which include character references on BOTH not just on one, we do not know, and we cannot make a decision one way r other.
Those who have made this decision I personally do not have any regard for.
We really do have to get all the pieces together first.
I will never ever get on any ban wagon to be part of the whole.
I see only one thing here.
If TMs parent would have felt that this was thoroughly investigated, if they felt they had answers, this may have gone a different way. They deserve answers, they deserve an investigation. They deserve that.
But to say that GZ is innocent or guilty
Or to say that TM was just a child is not REAL.
IT needs answers, and we must all wait for that before we jump up and down knowing it all.
There is a saying I like: this is one I also tell myself.
"Today, don't be a know it all. And you'll know it all" ~Anonymous~
Here is another one I really like:
To the dead we owe nothing but the truth. ~ Voltaire ~
We have to all get closure and only the truth will do that.