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Originally Posted by Young.Gun.612
I don't think the implication is that one shot will stop a violent confrontation, only that in this case it did. And frankly, I think it erodes the vigilante claim, or that GZ was a hothead looking to shoot. He stopped firing when the threat stopped.
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Precisely. And he didn't administer a
coup de grace after the fight was over -- unlike that pharmacist who shot one robber, chased the other one out of the store, then came back in and emptied a revolver into the robber who was lying on the floor.
I think the fact that Zimmerman wasn't a bloodthirsty vigilante looking to "off" anyone he had an excuse to shoot is also supported by the testimony of the female cop who was part of the initial investigation. She testified that, when told Martin had died, Zimmerman acted surprised and said, "He's dead?" That's not the probable reaction of someone who intentionally set out to kill someone.