An old friend (who happens to have become a Democrat) messaged me the following link on Facebook: What Everyone Should Know About Trayvon Martin (1995-2012)
From those details, it doesn't sound like the shooting was justified. Permit-to-carry holders, in MN anyway, are required to retreat (unless in one's home). Chasing down a suspect isn't acceptable, also because it doesn't demonstrate a reluctance to participate in a confrontation. Neither is shooting someone who doesn't exhibit immediate intent to inflict great bodily harm or death.
It's hard to tell from the news who the victim is. The novel Bonfire of the Vanities comes to mind. (Where the outraged community and leaders twist the facts to make one of the perps out to be a victim.)
I also came across a forum thread on Minnesota Carry where a permit-holder shot a guy who'd robbed another woman, and according to some accounts was pistol-whipping her, after he was fired upon. Again, it's hard to tell from the news, but it sounds like the bad guy was really a baddie, as he was a felon who had been freed on a catch-and-release program. (A felon possessing a firearm is also illegal.) The guy's mother and sister claimed injustice, but they too have criminal records: the mother for drug possession and the sister for receiving stolen property.
The really fucked up thing is that the judge, Toddrick Barnette, who released the dead perp, is the same asshole who stuck the late MN gun-rights icon Joel Rosenberg with $100k bail after Joel was arrested on a technicality (apparently there was an unused courtroom in the building that allowed them to claim he carried in a prohibited place). Hmm. I'm guessing the judge is a Democrat.
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