The gun came into play when spotted by Martin when Martin was on top of Zimmerman. How does Zimmerman retreat? So Stand Your Ground as a defense does not apply.

There is a procedure aspect to the Florida law to mitigate the risk of impoverishment in defending an otherwise reasonable use of a firearm. The law failed in this regard for Mr. Zimmerman. There was a similar miscarriage of justice in the Anderson case when politics trumped justice.

So there was clear attempt to abuse Stand Your Ground and almost passed. It did not passed not because of something inherent in the system, but only because Trayvon parents called journalists and those wrote angry articles. No public outcry back then, no court today.

The problem of this case is how the police and Zimmerman tried to use that law. And since the law does not apply in the end, the word “abuse” is not that bad.

Professor Ogletree of Harvard says that Zimmerman hunted down Martin. If so why would Martin assault a man brandishing a gun? A man of average intelligence would find Mr. Zimmerman’s claim that his gun was holstered until Martin saw it to make more sense. But then again Ogletree teaches at Harvard so little is expected of him. I do expect more from Bloomberg news.