There is a reason to have rights.
Rights are a reason to take risks.
You might be more or less smart choosing your risks, but when Mr. Zimmerman was the only neighbor willing to watch the neighborhood, did he get criticism then?
If he had seen the real burgular and stopped them and held them for the police at gunpoint , we would never have heard of him without reading an NRA publication.
I can't know why this encounter went bad, perhaps it is because of Mr.Zimmermans overzelousness, perhaps not.
I wish that they had both survived so that I could have heard both sides of this story.
I don't see the point of calling Mr Martin stupid for being out at night on foot, or Mr Zimmerman either.