one person has a gun, one person doesnt

there needs to be an investigation,,,,

Its ongoing, but with no new facts its self defense.

Its pretty hard to imagine what facts could come out that would change that based on the assault that clearly was taking place.

there was a fight clearly taking place, but who was in the wrong is up for dispute

it takes two to fight, but either both are right or both are wrong,,otherwise some determination must be made somehow about the REASONABLENESS of the actions leading up to and during the confrontation,,, as well as the honesty or dishonesty of the 'victim' giving the account,,,

doesnt matter

let it go to court, figure out who was the AGGRESSOR and who was 'defending' themself

You're right it doesn't matter. The race baiters Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, president Obama and their followers have already convicted Zimmerman of murder.
It's been made a racial issue by them and the media. Is it a sign of things to come? More racial devide in this country? I'd be willing to bet there will be a couple more of these incidences between now and the election. And if Obama looses there will be riots because all who didn't vote for Obama have to be racists.

I am sorry, I just shake my head at the ignorance in this thread, but what I think it much worse is the case of this women.

http://blogs.fredericksburg.com/newsdesk/2012/02/09/culpeper-officer-shoots-kills-woman/

Zimmerman had his head opened up by Martin and the media is questioning the self defense claim, but in this case the officer is claiming his arm was rolled up in a window which had manual crank windows, at a stop where he had no RAS to detain the person and then decided to shoot 6 times to stop her from leaving.

If no RAS, no authority to reach into her vehicle, if no authority then he had no right, if no right he shouldn't have done it, but even if he did do it, how did she roll his arm up into a window without him pulling free given it was a crank and not automatic?

Also why shoot at all? She was driving away, he was not in front of the vehicle, and a witness says his arm was NEVER rolled up in the window at all.

it hasnt been MADE racial, race is a part of our national dynamic,, it has a potential RACIAL element because of the words from Zimmerman describing him as a black male,,,that in itself mentions RACE and therefore potentially has a racial issue

not DEFINITELY, but investigation will decide whether it was or not,, not denying that it could be possible....

this isnt the first incident, since stand your ground there are ALREADY many instances like this , but this happens to be one that isnt going to be pushed under a rug and brushed off and forgotten

and noone is going to riot about a presidential election,,,

hopefully it will be INVESTIGATED thoroughly

but police do tend to get more free passes than every day citizens,

if a bully punches you and then you knock him onto the pavement, he may get a wound to the head,, but its not simply SELF DEFENSE If he responds by SHOOTING YOu

the details are important, not just wounds,,,,

It is totally absurd..

I said before that the ONLY reason this got any major coverage to begin with was because the media and left wing blogs saw WHITE killing BLACK and WHITE NOT going to jail..

That is the only reason this is getting covered..