Government-Authorized Murder is Murder Just the Same

  If a nation were to give it's citizens the right to kill, what could reflect more negatively on the fabric, on the character of that nation?
   So it is, the George Zimmerman trial has unshrouded an American practice that shuld be seen as an embarrasment to us. We once thought of laws allowing you to shoot to defend yourself as common sense.
   Then came Zimmerman. And Trayvon Martin. Then came the  night Martin was sitting on top of Zimmerman, pounding on Zimmerman (if we know the facts correctly), and Zimmerman pulled out a gun and ended the matter.
   We always understood that if someone pulls a gun on you, you pull a gun on them and defend yourself. But, this was different. This was a man either in fear of his life when he probably shouldn't have been, or else, he was a man simply using a pretense to justify killing anothr person.
   And, across he land, outrage erupted. People could see it was murder. Let the court call it what it might, to pull a gun and kill another person when there appeared to be no real danger that that other person was going to kill you?
   Well, that is murder -- government-approved murder, perhaps, and perhaps legalized murder, but murder, just the same. Just because a law is passed making something legal, doesn't make it right. Many across the land viewed what had happened, and deemed it murder regardless whether the government saw fit to give it such a term..
   Wrong is wrong. Injustice inside the law is as wrong as injustice outside the law. Morality is not granted by governments, but is innate. If we have a law that allows murder, that is one of the biggest flaws we have in the fabric of our nation.