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Posted by Tom Servo: There's certainly no shortage of confirmation bias going on in the gun culture when it comes to this matter.
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I see that all the time, whether the incident involves a trespasser, a bicycle thief, an argument over a parking space, or the Fuller Brush Man.
If the incident is related from the point of view of "the gun guy", many quickly identify with him and believe him to be "the good guy."
I have from time to time thought of framing a similar incident and relating it from the point of view of the other party, just to test the results.
"I was leaving a party, and some guy in a pickup truck stopped across the street and got out a rifle or a shotgun...".
Zimmerman? Based on what I've seen, I do not think the state has made its case, if they ever really had one, but I'm not sitting in judgement.
But it's pretty clear to me that he did not exercise very prudent judgment at all.