when you carry a gun, you are always conscious of it.
if you drop it - you're going to jail.
if you flash it accidentally while getting your wallet - you're going to jail.
it took until just rencetly that PRINTING from the wind was no longer a 1 year sentence.
When you carry it, you're liable for SO many things. If you trip and drop and it fires and hits someone, you're sued. If you break the law with it, it can be add'l charges for XYZ while carrying a weapon.
Zimmerman was most definitely running after a kid in the dark with the confidence of having that gun. and you NEVER run into a situation you think will be a gunfight. You run FROM it. If there's a man breaking into your house, you take cover and call 911 and stay outside.
if he truly believed "he's on drugs or something", if he truly believed the kid had something in his hand from a waistband, then he woudln't have run after such a major threat into the darkness. Well, he shouldn't have.
ZImm shooting trayvon was probably legal. But he should go to jail anyway for being a moron and not staying in his truck and letting police do their job. if trayvon reaches into his truck to attack, it's a 100% clean shoot. It's anything but that now, with "he's getting away" right before "he attacked me".