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Let's get down to basics...would you have followed TM without verbally stating your reason for doing so? I cannot fathom why GZ did not just outright introduce himself and ask TM who he was and did he live in the area. This is key to the workings of a mind with delusions of grandeur. It would have been cut and dry and oh so damn simple.
Apparently GZ was about to do that when he got coldcocked.
Do you care so little about your own life that you would let someone kill you, rather than use any means of self defense available to you to stop the attack?
Zimmerman had zero foresight. He's not bright, but he did not deserve to die and there is every possibility that Trayvon Martin never intended to kill him, just throw him a well deeserved beating for following him around and not making it clear that he was not just some bigotted white guy singling out a black kid.
You shoot to stop the threat. Which is why you shoot center mass, for a physiological, not a psychological stop. This is the most effective way to stop a threat.
You do otherwise, you set yourself up for a weak defense based on your inferred level of fear.
Trayvon was not a zombie hoard nor was he a large imposing figure. Judging from the injuries that zimmerman had it looked like he was punched in the nose once and fell. What you are saying does not necessarily apply to every situation.
Most people I know would not have handled a kid they did not recognize as if it were a case for 007 filled with intrigue. "Excuse me son, I'm the neighborhood watch person. Do you live here?, I'm just trying to keep the neighborhood safe for everyone that lives here and I did not recognize you. Oh, your visiting your dad? Fine have a good evening."
See how simple that was? He could have and should have done that. As for your last remark, it's rather repulsive. You did not know this 17 year old kid, but you have decided that he did not deserve to live and reach manhood. Really repulsive.
So you should wait to be killed before defending yourself?
This is about Zimmerman.
Zimmerman wasn't hurt. Feelings maybe, but physically? Nope.
He would not and did not even go to the doctor to be checked out.
He didn't have a broken nose, had a couple of scratches less than an inch long on his head (and was told just go home and wash with some soap and water).
An ex-bar bouncer, trained at a boxing gym. Yet his hands showed absolutely nothing of being in a fight.
He didn't even try a defense. Killing was his mode that night. Rather, murder.
No sense in being civil with someone who has demonstrated a complete lack of knowledge on numerous topics, but doesnt let her lack of knowledge get in the way of her breathtakingly stupid ideas.
You do not shoot to maim. That is not debatable. The only people who think shooting to maim is a sound defense policy are those who are either wildly misinformed, or just outright stupid.
In a case of combat or life threatening danger I would agree with you. Even the police are trainned to maim and kill if necessary. I think that your blood lust is getting the best of you.
Oh and btw, if you knew anything about the AF or the military in general you would know that we also have to go through small arms training. Zimmmerman killed him because he wanted and not because he had to. Like I said before, if he wanted the 150-160lb kid off of him he could have shot him anywhere consider how close he actually was to him.
Police are trained to STOP THE THREAT.
For the love of god, where do you get this stuff? Ask anyone who knows anything about the law, they will tell you, in a defensive situation with a firearm, you aim for center mass, always, period.
Look up studies on incapacitation by handguns. Reliance on a psychological stop is an absolutely horrible way to defend yourself.
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