Nothing plagues the human mind so much as "What if?" What if I had chosen to study law instead of business? What if I had told that girl how I really felt about her? What if I had just kept my mouth shut and gone home? What if I had made that left at Albuquerque? With the George Zimmerman case, there have been all forms of malpractice by the media and certain folks with agendas, but the most reckless and infuriating of them all is damning Zimmerman because "if Zimmerman had just stayed in his car, Trayon Martin would be alive." In point of fact, Trayvon Martin's death is the result of a chain of events, any one of which changed ever so slightly may or may not have affected the outcome. In hindsight, we can say George exiting his vehicle to follow Martin contributed to this chain, but it's absurd to point to an event so ambiguous in its outcome as getting out of one's car to continue observing a suspicious person and cal...
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