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Originally Posted by fintstone
In the old days, where I come from...a fight was where two fellows squared off (in general either could have walked off)...we would have never called a younger, larger, more athletic man jumping and beating a chubby older man who put up little or no resistance. We called that an assault (or attempted murder) and the perpetrator an animal/criminal.
If there was just one punch....and then the initiator walked away...I could agree that Zimmerman was out of line to shoot and his life was not in danger (although Martin should still have been charged with assaut and battery). One cannot be expected to lie on their back and get savegly beaten and coolly determine the point just before he dies to defend himself. Few armed people would have taken the beating Zimmerman did.
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Thats a different situation. It sounds like your describing two guys arguing and escalating into a fight mostly out of ego. This was a situation where both people were probably fighting out of fear and self preservation. In that type of situation you want to make sure you beat the guy enough so that he doesnt want to get up and come after you. Only a fool would try to throw one punch and walk away. I dont even think a trained fighter would be that cocky.