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Originally Posted by DuffMan
Ok, so pretend you are 1 out of 10 MMA skilled instead of 3rd degree brown belt, now how easy?
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Still very easy. With someone sitting on your hips (which is where you should be sitting, if you are doing a GnP) the person being sat on would have full access to anything holstered at the waist.
However he got there, I can quite easily picture a very scared and thus adrenalized Zimmerman getting his hands on his gun. GnP doesn't do much to an opponents arms. He gets his hand on the grip, the gun only has to clear 8-9 inches of holster, and then it's pointed up and fired without aiming. This is something that I feel that ANYONE could do if their arms were not immobilized and without much presence of mind. I don't see it being that hard to get at something strapped to one's waist while they are being sat on in that style.
Once Zimmerman had the gun in hand, it would only take a second or two to point (not aim, just point) the gun upward and squeeze the trigger.
I do not think that Zimmerman maliciously killed Martin. I think it was a tragic set of circumstances that could have been avoided at several stages at several points in all of the encounters, and wasn't.