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Like i said though, there is always a way around this type of situation. Even if Zimmerman was pursuing the teen, it didn't need to become confrontational and that will be determined by how close were the two standing from each other when the trigger was pulled. If Zimmerman screamed out, stop, turn around i got a gun, and just fired on the kid, whoa, that's crazy/murder. If it is found that Zimmerman caught up with the teen and the teen took a forceful attitude and started to come toward Zimmerman, even with a gun drawn, i could imagine a backing off and a more civil conversation of, hey man, i live right up the road here, just walking home, you can follow me, i don't care type of thing happening. If that didn't happen and the gun was never drawn and the teen kept coming forward and once they were in the heat of things the gun was pulled and fired, it doesn't make it right, but cooler heads would have led this situation to much different outcome without a killing being involved.
Look at how renta cops over react with tazers. They taze everything that moves now. In fact, older experienced police officers say these less than lethal weapons make people sloppy. Where they should use more judgement and people skills they just reach for the tazer and use it. It's over reacting. When you over react with a gun you kill the person. I say give them a cell phone and a big can of pepper spray. That should handle most situations it works on the nasty bears around here and nobody gets killed.