The unalterable fact is that when Zimmerman did his duty as a block watch person and called the police about seeing what he construed to be a suspicious person (a black teenager walking home from a convenience store after buying a box of candy), the police told him not to approach the "suspect."

Zimmerman disobeyed the police and confronted Martin anyway.

If Zimmerman had obeyed the police, the whole matter would be sorted out by now. Trayvon Martin would most cartainly still be alive and this whole asininely tragic episode would never have happened.

There was an old Western on television a few decades back called "Have Gun, Will Travel." Whenever you watched the show, you could be damned sure that Paladin was going to shoot somebody before the show was over!

Like the acquaintance I talked about up-thread, undoubtedly Zimmerman was trigger-happy and itching to use his 9 mm. pistol. Otherwise, he would have just sat tight like the police told him to do.

Don Firth