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I've heard a lot of talk on local radio stations around here about how this all could have been avoided had Zimmerman "just stayed in his truck."

It's the old "blame the victim because they shouldn't have gotten involved". As the elected neighborhood watch person for the community, I believe that Zimmerman felt that he had a civic duty to his community to get involved.

If the dispatcher on the phone with Zimmerman hadn't asked him which way he went, he probably wouldn't have gotten out of his car... If someone else had answered the non-emergency phone that night... If TM had taken a different route so that GZ could still see him... the list is endless as to how many different ways this thing could have gone to come out with different results.

Who's to say that TM wouldn't have gone back and pulled him from his vehicle either? You play the cards you're delt and don't bother thinking about what "could have been"... it's not useful.