I would bet a very large sum Zimmerman wished he’d left his gun at home.
It is certainly possible he could have been beaten to death if he hadn’t been armed, but it is at least as possible that the intensity of the attack owed something to the presence of the gun.
No matter who started the fight, once both were aware the gun was there it became literally a life and death struggle over who controlled it.
Zim himself says (or so it has been reported) that he “had to shoot” to keep Martin from getting the gun. Martin, if he’d survived would no doubt be telling us he had to fight to protect himself against an armed attacker.
Any law that more or less vindicates whoever happens to survive is problematic. And I don’t mean SYG, which just doesn’t apply, for either side.
Problem is, the race pimpers want to make this ALL ABOUT RACE.
The RKBA folks want to make this ALL ABOUT SELF DEFENSE.
Both sides are wrong, it’s somewhere in the middle.
Since TM didn't know Zimmerman was armed this is a stupid statement. He would have been no less vicious if Zimmerman had not been armed since he was not aware of the gun when he started his attack.
Zimmerman would be dead now if he hadn't been armed. To blame this on Zimmerman being armed is ridiculous, it is entirely on TM.
Do you get a commission for every time you try to make that true?