Originally Posted By: Sicilian Babe
Originally Posted By: IvyLeague
It seems very unlikely that Zimmerman just got out of his car thinking, "I'm gonna kill this kid."


And that's the difference. I'm not so sure.

There are lots of cop/hero wannabe's like Zimmerman out there with chips on their shoulders and itchy trigger fingers. They are just waiting for a chance to "save the world". I think he was a ticking time bomb, and Trayvon happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. If it wasn't Trayvon, then six months or a year from now, it would have been someone else.


Zimmerman definitely strikes me as a wannabe cop/hero. I have no problem believing that he approached Trayvon thinking his "authority" was going to win the day. But when it turned physical, the wannabe hero panicked and went for his gun. His mouth had tried to cash a check his ass couldn't cash, as they say.


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