I'm not exactly in the habit of believing the media. I've looked at everything he has done, which has been him acting like a guilty man. He has not acted innocent.  He is a screw up and moron. He is certainly no hero of gun owners everywhere.  Support his right of self-defense... but don't have a kneejerk His shooting was in the right so he is awesome! reaction. There are a lot of lawful shoots out there done by horrible people.  As an example, one here in Kalispell slept with his neighbor's wife. His neighbor confronts him and follows him into his home without permission. So he shoots the neighbor.  Since the neighbor was in his home without permission and threatening him, it was a good shoot. But the guy was obviously a jerk.  The bottom line is... Zimmerman should be defended for his shooting.. but not for anything else he does. you still have yet to list even one thing he has done wrong.      as for your example, who cares if the guy was a jerk or slept with the guys wife? who in their right mind follows someone into their home? whether I'm in the right or wrong, if someone tries to follow me into my home, I'm going to seriously question their intentions against me. the circumstances of the trayvon case are completely different other than they were both legally self defense. zimmerman didn't do anything to trayvon to provoke him, and certainly nothing deserving of what trayvon did to him. if anybody was the jerk, it was trayvon.