The shooting seems to have been in response to an unwarranted assault upon the survivor. That doesn't break any laws that I'm aware of, given the current facts that are known.
Stating that Zimmerman was looking for trouble is silly. Of course he was “looking for trouble”, but not in the sense you are insinuating. Seems pretty obvious to me he was looking out for his neighborhood and spotted someone suspicious. It seems that the incident would have ended without any altercation if the deceased had not decided to attack Mr. Zimmerman. I draw that conclusion upon the currently known facts. Pretty straightforward.
You imply that the deceased would be within HIS rights to assault Mr. Zimmerman simply because the man was suspicious and followed him or even possibly confronted him. If Mr. Zimmerman did not pointedly threaten him or attack him first, then the deceased had NO right to assault him, period.
Considering the known facts, Mr. Zimmerman was well within his rights to use whatever means were at his disposal to repel the assaulter.
The bad news is, I'm sure the authorities will bow to the pressure from the professional race baiters and others who want to appease the black community and possibly railroad this man to a prison sentence, possibly undeserved.
Interesting times, indeed.
No one knows what happened after Zimmerman left his vehicle, what was said, whether the weapon was flashed prior to Martin getting shot. The only witness saw Martin on top of Zimmerman punching him, no one other then Zimmerman knows what happened before. So many on this site are taking this man’s word on the event and I’m not saying that things didn’t go down that way, only that the other available witness is now dead.