This ain't high school, and I've no interest in ending up like a vegetable just so some shitstain can post video of me twitching on the ground to his Facebook for his other shitstain friends to laugh at. We live in an armed society, and getting killed while attempting to use your fists to force your will upon others is simply the consequences of being impolite.
So Zimmerman was a fool for carrying his gun and not retreating fast enough, thereby provoking the encounter, but he is also at fault because Martin did not feel a duty to retreat and instead met a retreating night stroller with overt and physical aggression?
Double standards, how do they work?
If you don't want your ass kicked, don't stalk a kid that can kick your ass.
Martin had no duty to retreat and where was he going to retreat to. To his home so that this strange little man that's stalking him will now know where he lives? Z-man caused the confrontation by stalking the kid. Like I said earlier, if Martin was a 17 y/o girl we would all boasting about how awesome it is that she stood up to the stalker.