There's a debate about whether Zimmerman should have been carrying

[krispos42]

109. I agree with about half of what you said.

I don't think Zimmerman was a "fraidy cat", I think he was a typical bully... wanting the trappings of power and authority but without the stones or the brains or the smarts or the discipline to become a soldier or a cop.

I betcha he had one of those police-looking badges that says "legally armed citizen" or some shit that you can stick in your wallet like undercover cops have. Hell, they actually sell a little wallet with the badge on one side and a clear window for your CCW permit on the other.

But that's besides the point.

Being violently attacked isn't a game. You don't get points for bravado or technique. You either get the shit beaten out of you, or you beat your attacker into retreat or submission.

You stance worked fine in an array of cities. That's fine; even in the shittiest neighborhoods in America the odds are you'll go untouched in any given year.

But look around you.. plenty of unarmed, non-cowardly people in Detroit and Baltimore and DC were killed, and a dozen times that seriously injured, while you were living there being brave and unarmed.