I don't think Zimmerman really intended to kill Trayvon.

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107. He's got a screw loose, in that he seems to walk in a fantasy where he is a beweaponed hero

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Look, I have a former in-law who is in love with sword-based martial arts, and he walks around life wearing his black studio outfit complete with split-toed sock/shoes (if they were socks I'd call them tabi, but they have a sole). But he's not allowed to wear his katana in public, and a good thing too, as the damn thing is sharper than a surgeon's scalpel. Fantasies like that are not compatible with consensus-reality-world.

Zimmerman's fantasy turned into a nightmare for everyone when he took to walking around with a loaded weapon and a self-appointed mission to "protect" his neighborhood/his territory from boogy-men real and imagined. According to the 911 dispatchers, all his boogy-men up to and including the time he murdered Trayvon were imaginary.

I look at him and see a scared little man. A very dangerous scared little man who puffs himself up by carrying lethal weapons and by bullying women and innocent passers-by who don't fit his world. He's not operating on the same plane as the rest of us, and whether he needs psychoanalysis or not is a moot question -- because the first thing you do with an abuser/criminal/psychopath is STOP THEM.

Maybe he'll gain insight while he's locked up for a good long time -- there have been a few remarkable jailhouse conversions in history, among them Malcolm X, though they are the exception rather than the rule. Zimmerman doesn't look like he is capable of gaining insight into his behavior, because he has escalated rather than changed. His notoriety has confirmed him in his fantasy rather than changing it.

I believe in empathy, sympathy, talk therapy, getting to the root of things -- but most of all, when someone is a danger to others, I believe the first order of business is to STOP HIM.