Except that handgun use doesn't work that way when one is under duress. If Zimmerman was a Navy SeAL, maybe such an argument could be made. I challenge any normal person to place a well-aimed shot into someone's arm when they're on their back being struck about the head and face.
Such an assertion by the writers of what you have read is absurd.
“..was a Navy SeAL, maybe such an argument could be made.”
Agreed - although I imagine a Navy Seal would not have ended up on the ground in the first place!
I’m sure the idea of “winging” a guy comes from the movies. I just saw a pretty good old Western where Henry Fonda wings Jimmy Stewart in the leg to slow him down to keep him from following as his gang leaves town.
A few moments later when Stewart goes and gets a gun from a local shop keeper and comes up firing, Fonda (aging gunfighter) quips “I used to know which men needed shooting and which needed killing.”