re: #175 Targetpractice

What about 4 minutes?

And if Zimmerman’s history prior to the shooting is game, why not Martin’s? The empty baggie? The jewelry and screwdriver? The THC in his blood? I’ll stop at the last and note that I’ve never met an angry pothead, but I’ve also never seen somebody coming off a high who was making all the right decisions. I’d consider it plausible that Martin was not high at the time, but had been earlier that day, and still had enough THC in his blood that he thought confronting Zimmerman was a good idea.

THC stays in the bloodstream for about a month. Maybe he was high that day, the day before, or weeks before. As you said, potheads don’t get angry.

The reason I see Trayvon’s history as less relevant is that none of it suggested that he was the kind of person who sought out violent confrontations. Zim’s history not only involved charges of past assault, but an overzealous attitude about his own crime fighting abilities, when the fact is that he was an irresponsible amateur.

You can argue that the bottom line is Trayvon would be alive if he had just run home. My bottom line is what happened FIRST: Zim following him and getting out of his car armed for no reason whatsoever. People die when amateurs play cop; when kids walk home with skittles…well, there’s not exactly a long history of death resulting from that.