Just because you have a legal gun in one state, does not mean it is legal in another.

Yes, in Texas.

Ooof. I dunno about that big fella. People injected race into this mess during the whole process and beyond the fact the police refused to investigate further due to the outcry that they ignored initially the whole race angle is moot to the actual turn of events. Zimmerman saw a lad in a hoddie and thought he looked dodgy. nothing to do with race that's a pure class snobbery thing, the whole zimmerman being a racist is silly comic style nonsense. Zimmerman followed him and the Martin lad was spooked and ran. If the prosecution is to be believed and indeed the verdict Martin then became seriously pissed off and confronted Zimmerman. he proceeded to the kick the crap out of him and then Zimmerman decided to shoot him. now i really cannot emphasis this enough for you american readers. you profile a lad and he then turns on you and throws you a few punches and slams your head on the floor this does not suddenly give you the right to kill him. lord knows i have seen plenty a fight on my time. punches are throw the raw anger drips and then then it subsides. at no point have i ever seen somebody whip out a gun and shoot somebody. You know why? because that would be bloody insane lunacy. Oh he threw some violence my way he must die!

The actual verdict by the laws in the state of florida? yea Zimmerman should and was acquitted. But the default nuclear mindset that allowed it? No. some lad who is walking home and then let anger about being followed get the best of him should not mean he dies. That's utter lunacy.

Oh and yea David In your defense that barrabas lad is an absolute gobshite.