But I don’t think we need such a “model.”
All we need to do is ask people to look at the photos of what was done to George Zimmerman by Trayvon Martin.
And then the question: “If you had someone on top of you, doing what Trayvon Martin did to George Zimmerman, smashing your nose like Trayvon Martin smashed George Zimmerman’s nose, beating you repeatedly, smashing your head against the concrete to produce the kind of injuries Trayvon Martin inflicted on the back of George Zimmerman’s head, and you couldn’t stop it and you couldn’t get away, and there was no one to help you, and no one else available to stop the violence, and you were continuing to receive those kind of injuries, and the only way you could fight back or get away was by using the firearm in your pocket, what would you do? What would any reasonable person do?”
There is only one answer to that question: SHOOT the SOB.
I would be in the camp that favors there be no trial of Z to begin with. Since there is a Z trial, I would argue that something is missing from society-- a model to tell us what is acceptable behavior when carrying concealed during an incident. Had there been such a model, society could simply refer to the model and not prejudge someone like Z to begin with. In the Z case, society is clearly conflating SYG with vigilante-ism and coming up with wrong answers. What should be happening-- that Z be free to go-- is not happening-- Z is on trial.
model + no Z trial > no model + Z trial