if someone is beating your head in with a rock, please dont defend yourself, let them carry out their act of agression, you wouldnt want to be hypocritical now.

I wouldn't, but it isn't a crime to follow someone, and it isn't a crime to continue to do so after the dispatcher told you not to.  The only part that was relevant to the case is when Zimmerman and Martin engadged each other.

i guess children are allowed to join the military then. fly jets, drop bombs, fire machine guns, rocket launchers throw grenades, etc.

yeah he was a child.

The thing is you shouldn't need to be prepaired if these crimes were rare. These types of crimes need to be reduced. However I don't know what the solution is because of the long American culture of guns and race vs race isn't something you will fix overnight.

Even in this thread you see some people bring up the whole black vs white thing. Why is this even a factor in modern America? This will only fuel more violence because of the verdict. Plus Jessie Jackson isn't helping the situation with his rants.

Slightly of topic but are people still hung up about slavery? Like when was the last black slave? Also what about the indians? why no one care about them? Granted all this was wrong in Americas history, but that is what it is, history and it is not like it happened only a few years ago. People need to move on and work out their differences. Kids arnt born racist they are tought to be by their parents and generations before them and friends.

Look at Europe and Germany as an example, do you see many people still hating them because of Hitler and his action? If you look at the older generations sure but the younger ones just don't care as it is in the past and all they can do is learn not to do the same. Even throught history someone has enslaved someone and are we all meant to hate each other because of it? 

Because he viciously attacked Zimmerman, then sat on his chest and punched his fists in the poor man's face.

what? how old are you? 

you just said that if someone chucks a rock at you, that you're justified in taking that person's life... i simply repeated that

It may not be against the law to do these things but its also incredibly stupid. I know you can't be tried for stupidity but in cases like this where only one side lives to tell the story and there are no clear eyewitnesses, the cause and effect of the decisions made by people involved should be considered as much as the actual altercation.

No one really knows what happened in the dark. What if Zimmerman called Treyvon a filthy ni***r and he lost it and jumped on him?

All that is clear as day is that because Zimmerman decided to follow Treyvon and get himself involved, things escalated to a point where he apparently had to use a gun to defend himself.

Because he viciously attacked Zimmerman, then sat on his chest and punched his fists in the poor man's face.

clearly im not talking about some school yard fun of throwing rocks at each other. im talking stoning, the type of thing that still happens in the middle east and stuff. a little common sense would go a long way for you.