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Inspired by you, I sent them the following rant:

Dear friends,
Your account and reaction to the Zimmerman trial exhibits the very worst of Progressive thought. It is, in fact, contrary to your own professed concern of peace and life.
You are, first, failing to tell the truth. Second, you are failing to practice the sort of meticulous analysis of events which is most likely to bring the truth of things to the surface. In that failure you are, third, pouring gasoline on the fire of resentment and grievance kindled by those who make a living off societal discontent.
I imagine that if a howling mob of right-wing activists surrounded your offices, "breathing threats and slaughter," you would not hesitate to call the police. And so you should. You have friends, a cause, and above all family who depend on your being alive and well.
But, as they say, "When seconds count, the police are only minutes away." By dialing 911 you would have already endorsed violence, or the credible threat of violence, as a legitimate means of self-protection. That you appeal to hired guns makes no moral difference. Doing something or paying others to do it is virtually equivalent, morally speaking.
So, fourth, you invoke a moral sentiment which you yourselves do not hold.
In the mere mention of Stand Your Ground and in your gratuitous lamenting of "militarization" you appeal to emotion over reason. Your safety while you publish your opinion is guaranteed by, well, the military! And not only the military but the local law enforcement organizations, on whom you rely to keep the roads drivable and the neighborhood livable, protect your right to form and promulgate your opinions.
However, largely because of people who share your opinions, we have come to a point in history where malefactors are coddled and slapped on the wrist. Consequently money has been diverted from community safety to social programs which blindly seek for "root causes" while they ignore the violence all around.
A number of events led me to buy my first handgun and to join the reserve corps of my sheriff's office. But chief among them was this: a robber who had been "compassionately" slapped on the wrist for his first offense later shot a mother's three children before her eyes. When I read that I decided that rather than say to my daughter, "I'm sorry, dear, but I am too morally pure to save your life," it was in fact morally incumbent upon me, as parent, to be able to DO (rather than say)," Don't worry, dear, you're safe now. He'll never hurt anybody again.
So your fifth offense against life and peace is the pretense that it is morally superior to let evil-doers kill our children while we stand by and wring our hands.
I strongly urge you to reconsider both your careless methods of moral analysis and your faulty moral thinking.