re: #96 Obdicut

It’s entirely possible that Martin did go for Zimmerman’s gun. If a guy had been following me for blocks and blocks, and then approached me and I saw he had a gun, I might panic and try to grab it too.

This is actually something I’ve been saying from the start: part of the problem of having people going around armed is that they can interpret any attack on them as a potentially deadly one, because they’re carrying around a deadly weapon and if their ‘assailant’ gets it, they could kill them.

Oh, I don’t doubt it plausible that he went for the gun, in a panic to avoid getting shot. Then again, if Zimmerman was brandishing it in the first place, then he knowing escalated the situation by presenting the threat of being shot to Trayvon.

Of course, this is still only one half of the story, with the other half being a might difficult to obtain due to a terminal case of death.