# Neighborhood watch leader shoots FL teen **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 24, 2012, 12:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/neighborhood-watch-leader-shoots-fl-teen/263127 "2012-03-24T12:43:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 148
**Author:** ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 11:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/neighborhood-watch-leader-shoots-fl-teen/263127/148 "2013-07-14T11:08:17Z")
> [@Something that has never been done before!!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/something-that-has-never-been-done-before/53041/34): > > Seriously? People have died from less injuries than Zimmerman had. And if you take Zims word (no evidence saying otherwise), when he was trying to get onto the grass (grass stains on his jacket proved this to be true) it revealed his gun. At this point Martin reached for his gun threatening to use it. Even if that wasn’t true, it is entirely possible and likely that Martin was going to beat him to death. Slim to none is far from the truth. > > Even if he didn’t die, is he supposed to live his life completely brain dead just so this thug could live to do this again next time… or possible kill someone next time? I don’t care if he was black, white, blue, red, etc… when he made the choice to be a thug and start beating up on an older man, he should have weighed the consequences of the outcome. Yes it sucks that someone died, but why should Zim have been the one dead??? You seem certain that Zimmerman would have been killed by a 17 year old he just met 3 minutes ago through an altercation through a brawl? You live in some fantasy world. How many 17 year olds you think randomly, single highhandedly attack and murder adults by hand that they’ve never met before? Throughout history? I’ll say none. It would have been a brawl and as soon as Zimmerman would give up the chase the “thug” would run away. If it goes to the fact that Zimmerman was in danger of being killed by his own weapon, well then he’s even a bigger idiot than I originally thought. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/neighborhood-watch-leader-shoots-fl-teen/263127)._