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Originally Posted by blankall
My point was your concept of causation was irrelevant, even if you qualify it with the word "proximate". Zimmerman is allowed to approach a stranger in his privately gated community. He's even allowed to do it in public. He hasn't broken a single law in doing so.
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Where exactly have I argued otherwise?
Conversely, if he approaches a stranger in a private gated community, or in public, in a manner that causes that stranger to reasonably fear immediate harm they have not broken a single law in responding to that threat with physical force.
My position is that if you're going to be approaching people while armed, and then use that weapon in claimed self defense the onus showed fall upon you to prove the need to use deadly force, not upon the prosecution.