Howard University students' video PSA campaign: Do I look suspicious?

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@law

And just to pre-empt the inevitable “But why didn’t he just not get into the argument to begin with???”, remember - it wasn’t illegal for Zimmerman to get out of his truck, follow Martin through a public place, and start an argument with him. The clock would have started ticking on ‘duty to retreat’ immediately after the first punch was thrown, and according to Zimmerman’s side of the story he WAS supposedly trying to leave the scene when he ended up on his back with Martin on top of him.

If I was in Martin’s position, I would have felt like my life was in danger. Why doesn’t he get to claim the self-defense card? Because Zimmerman “won” by shooting him in the heart? We don’t know that Zimmerman did not show his gun to Martin before the first swing: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/opinion/blow-questioning-the-struggle.html?pagewanted=all&partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

If someone is following you, would you feel like your life was in danger? If that person had a gun, would you feel like your life was in danger?

@law

A handgun is the only way I know of for a 90lb woman to regularly fend off a 200-lb attacker

You are seriously going to bring that up? Women are more likely to be shot and killed by an intimate partner than killed by a stranger using using any weapon. Also, the presence of guns in the home is associated with an increased homicide risk within the home. research@BSPH | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health