George Zimmerman was carrying a 9mm semi-automatic handgun.
If he was the crazed, racist murderer that the MSM and the liberal politicians are painting him as, wouldn’t he have squeezed off two or three more rounds to be sure he had finished the job?
He fired one round to make the brutal “Ground and Pound” battering stop.
When one is in such a helpless position, one must assume that the assault will continue until one loses consciousness or one’s life, depending on the viciousness of the attacker. George Zimmerman had no way of knowing the level of insanity of his attacker, so he must have assumed that if he lost consciousness, he would never wake up.
If George Zimmerman was a crazed, racist murderer he would have stood over Trayvon’s helpless body (he was probably not deceased yet), and pumped a couple of additional rounds to the head, to solidify his victory.
When this tragedy began, nobody had an intention of killing anyone, but the situation got out of control in a matter of seconds, tempers flared and a valuable young life was lost.
George Zimmerman will punish himself for his actions for the rest of his life, arguably much worse a sentence than he deserves.
I think you’re missing a point.
The presence of the gun more or less ensured somebody was going to get shot, since whoever had control of the gun during the struggle would know that if he lost that control it would probably mean his death.
IOW, the presence of a gun ensured that it was a life or death struggle, whereas without the gun there was “some” possibility it would not escalate to that extent.
Could one of them have killed the other with his hands? Sure, but a gun is just so much easier and more efficient a killing tool, which is of course why we carry them.