They carry it, but do they really *get* it? That I wonder...

Police didn't tell him to do anything, what they said was we don't need you to do that. So he stopped it was travon that circled around and attacked him, Slammed his head on the ground and beat him in the face. That's why he died. Travon should have kept going and that’s where he messed up big time. At least get the fact strait before you tire to argue. Two lives where ruined that day, Zimmerman will have to live with this the rest of his life. 

well there wouldnt be much point of me (or him) carrying it, if it werent lethal.

I don't understand this argument. Yes, zimmerman followed and engaged trayvon, but from all said and done, he did not initiate the physical confrontation. Correct me if i am wrong, but Trayvon was found with no wounds other thant the bullet hole while zimmerman did have some gashes in the back of his head and i believe a busted nose. It all seems to indicate that Trayvon attacked first or that he overpowered GZ to the ground, with the latter not being the case in my honest opinion.

Was it so hard for Trayvon to have just kept walking or just walked away? No matter how angry or scared you are, the last thing to be done is to attack somebody out of fear/anger. Plus, Trayvon was much leaner, fit and taller than GZ, I really really doubt he was afraid of GZ to the point where he loses it. That being said, GZ should not have confronted Trayvon, at all. 

That is some bull! Somebody died and nobody is guilty? That man smiled as the sentencing was read? Yeah, your life was on the line but so was someone elses, some time ago. He actually died without a court case. I hate this. I really hate this. It's like letting Boothe go free after he killed Lincoln. Just sad... what have we done?

It all comes down to reasonable doubt and there was truly that. Does it make sense for Martin to decide to beat up/kill Zimmerman without bothering to set aside his candy and drink? Does it make sense for the screams to stop as soon as the trigger was pulled and not another whimpers be made?

Either way, the reasonable doubt was there. Just hope that YOU are never considered suspicious looking.

As a member of the neighborhood watch, he should have known not to follow him as he was instructed to do so by 911. If the situation was reversed and Martin shot Zimmerman because he felt threatened that some strange guy was following home. I doubt you'd feel the same way. As someone that's been followed before, I can't say what I would have done in the same situation. Although going straight home wouldn't have been my first thought, I don't want to lead a potential threat to my place of residence.

All we have is Zimmerman's word. NO ONE saw who actually started the fight.

No one should be celebrating this case nor damning Zimmerman either. This is a tragedy, but this should force people to access the current way in which certain matters are paid attention to, especially in Florida. There are grieving parents out there and some assholes have the audacity to only think about themselves and their own personal feelings in either side of the coin, when this should be a case that affects everyone in changing the way the future plays out for everyone.

And this is the problem with our society.  People who don't even look at the facts of the case and just jump to conclusions.  Which, I admit, is much easier to happen when the media is spoon feeding people BS.

Trayvon was far from innocent.  Zimmerman lost him for several minutes.  Plenty of time for Trayvon to get to his dad's house and be relaxing.  Instead, he decided to stick around and (most likely) confront this "crazy ass cracker."  And kid?  Really?  He was an atheletic, 6 ft (Zimmerman was 5'7") 17 yr old YOUNG MAN.  Not the little 12 yr old boy the media tried to portray him as.

Zimmerman was NEVER told by a cop to not follow Trayvon.  He was told by a DISPATCHER that they didn't need him to follow Trayvon.  That's not an order.  And he has no legal obligation to follow it.  And, in fact, he did stop following him at that point.  Hence, the wind dying down and Zimmerman catching his breath on the 911 call.

It also doesn't matter WHO owned the gun, as either man could have got ahold of it and used it.  Zimmerman even stated he believed Trayvon was going for his gun, which is why he felt he had to get to it, first.  Of course, Zimmerman may have only imagined this.  But, who could blame him if he did, he was getting his head slammed against the sidewalk at the time.

In the end, our justice system prevailed over low information "armchair legal experts" and emotion.