This is why we must prevail in the Zimmerman SYG argument.

[Yo_Mama]

11. It's not based on SYG

It really isn't. That law simply removes the legal requirement to retreat.

According to Zimmerman's STATEMENT, SYG is no factor in the case at all, because he says he never had the chance to retreat.

So if he were to be acquitted on that basis, SYG would have no bearing on it.

It has always been the law that you may defend yourself if under attack. You only have a duty to retreat if you can AVOID a confrontation. The SYG law says that say if a gunman comes in the front door of a building and starts shooting or threatens with a gun, you can't be tried on the basis that you could have made it out the back door and escaped the threat without shooting the guy.

Of course, most people seem to have strong doubts about Zimmerman's account, but what he says happened is that the guy approached him, punched him, got him down, and he pulled the gun and shot because he had to defend himself.

Now maybe at the eventual trial something else will come out - right now we don't know that much about the evidence. Maybe eventually SYG will become a factor. But right now, it does not seem to be.