Trayvon Martin
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..."they just said there is no evidence in existence who started the fight..."
A man (regular citizen) leaves a vehicle (against Police request), takes his gun from his glovebox, approaches an unknown male and demands to know what he's doing in the community.
So when you leave a vehicle with a gun to confront a suspicious person you have no idea that things could go wrong?? Approaching a person while carrying or concealing a weapon is not confrontational? Please.
It's already been said he was not even an official part of the official Neighborhood Watch program, he just started his own in the community (and I am sure he did great things). But he is unclear on what the word 'watch' means and that the actual organization's philosophy is never to interfere.
Now, I would consider him leaving the vehicle with a weapon a proper action if someone's life was at risk (i.e. Trayvon was attacking a person, raping a woman etc.) but all he had was someone looking suspicious. Even if Trayvon was witnessed stealing, it was only property and no life was ever in danger until Zimmerman interfered.
Zimmerman created the situation that put his own life at risk and created the situation that forced him to kill a person.
Plenty of culpability there and deserves to be punished.
Do we know how well trained Zimmerman was with a gun, or how he reacts under pressure with it. What is he fired and missed and killed an innocent person, a kid, someone in their living room? There is SO much wrong with the events he chose to initiate on his own.