Liberals repeatedly complain about Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, and want such statutes stricken from the 31 state codes in which they exist in one form or another. This is a debatable proposition, as are most topics in the controversial area of Second Amendment rights. So, let’s debate it — as long as everyone remembers that neither the prosecution nor the defense in this trial invoked Florida’s Stand Your Ground doctrine.

Those who oppose Stand Your Ground laws should reserve a few calories of their outrage for none other than Obama. As NRO’s John Fund reported, in 2004, Obama sponsored S.B. 2386 in the Illinois State Senate. It successfully strengthened the Stand Your Ground law in the Land of Lincoln. That detail largely has been overlooked amid the criticism of these statutes, including Obama’s own disparaging words about them.

Since this case’s verdict, conservatives have focused on black-on-black crime. They are correct in arguing that young black men are far likelier to die at the hands of other black men, rather than as victims of white men eager to engage in neo-lynching. The Reverend Jesse Jackson’s comments are instructive here. As he told a meeting of Operation Push on November 27, 1993:

There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. . . . After all we have been through. Just to think we can’t walk down our own streets. How humiliating.

This subject deserves open and candid conversation. However, let’s not forget that Martin succumbed to “white Hispanic”-on-black violence, not the black-on-black variety.

One of this trial’s jurors appeared on ABC with comments that also were, by her later admission, detached from the facts in this case.

Zimmerman “got away with murder,” Juror B29 told ABC’s Robin Roberts. (Offering only the first name of Maddy, this juror kept her surname private.) While this comment generated tremendous excitement, the story was less thrilling than the headline.

“You can’t put the man in jail even though in our hearts we felt he was guilty,” Juror B29 said. The Hispanic woman, part of this six-member, all-female jury, added: “But we had to grab our hearts and put it aside and look at the evidence.” (Emphasis added.)

So, she might have thought that Zimmerman was a murderer, but the facts did not take her there. Thus, she voted to acquit the defendant. She said: “I stand by the decision because of the law.”

In the end, B29 and the five other jurors did the right thing as they deliberated for 16 hours over two days: They acquitted Zimmerman of second-degree murder.

The defense raised reasonable doubts that disconnected the dots in the prosecution’s case. Based solely on what I saw of the televised testimony, these questions, at the very least, should have troubled the jury: