That’s because it’s been long enough since the time of my original training, that I’ve had time to think “beyond” myself. Southpaw, you will need a lot more time than you’ve had, to be able to think of other people as they should be thought of.

When people are initially trained, whether due to inexperience or youth, they always think there is a single correct answer: A. They think that either because that’s what their experience showed them or whether because instructors showed them video and conditioned them to think so, doesn’t matter.

There is no single correct judgment. There is no “If that guy didn’t think ahead and come to the EXACT SAME CONCLUSION AS I HAVE, they are stupid”.

There is no such thing.

And a word of warning. The more you think like that Southpaw, the more you contribute to your own risk if you come to any situation that requires objective, exact, immediate survival based decision making. Human beings have a number of different goals and thoughts. The blind assumption that other people in this world think exactly the same or that they are operating by the same rules and parameters, or priorities, has gotten more than one human killed. They made the wrong assumption and obtained the wrong premise. They were too busy thinking about what was wrong with the other guy’s behavior, that they forgot about interrogating their own actions and thoughts.

Whether I agree with your concept of preparation, Southpaw, doesn’t matter. For the record, I agree with the majority of it when it concerns caution and avoiding unnecessary conflict. But we’re not talking about what you would have done or what I would have done. I was specifically interested in what Zimmerman had done and his motivations.

If all you had claimed about things was that “you would have been stupid to have done what Zimmerman was said to have done or you would have been stupid to have decided the things that eventually led to Zimmerman’s fate” I would most likely have agreed with you. But that wasn’t exactly the line of thought you chose to investigate.

If Zimmerman’s fate brings about caution, wisdom, and benefit to yourself or someone else, then learning about and investigating the matter would be a noble cause worthy of effort. If Zimmerman’s fate is investigated because people are interested in obtaining arrogant power and superiority over those they think inferior and mistaken, then the investigators are living on pillars of sand.

The most you have been trained or taught to think is that “I am stupid if I make these decisions”.

You are neither qualified nor trained to be talking about what other people should be doing.

You are going to waste a significant amount of the benefit you got in concealed handgun license training separating yourself from “other people” when the objective was to get you to think about yourself. The objective was not for you to become a qualified court witness or judge of what happened to somebody else.

http://patdollard.com/2013/06/trayvon-martins-involvement-in-local-burglaries-covered-up-by-media-school-police/

The Dissident Media have uncovered something the Pravda Media aren’t covering (again). Martin’s previous criminal activity was covered up even before the shooting — by an elaborate scheme by the Miami School Police Dept. concocted to knock down the statistics of, specifically, black male crime in the schools.

Therefore, Martin’s theft of women’s jewelry (including diamond earrings) wasn’t reported as a theft; the jewelry was never returned to the owner, but parked in the Property Dept. (lost and found), and he was suspended from school briefly. His egg donor and sperm donor (absent parents) knew nothing of the incident.

“The final approach, to insure no-one would find out about the manipulation, was to change the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for inter-agency information sharing.

“This new SOP was outlined by a communications directive in 2010 forbidding the sharing of Miami-Dade School Police reports to outside agencies without redaction. Officers had to send any and all requests through the public information officer.”

Miami’s School Police also reclassifies black male criminal activity as psychological disorders so they can sweep it under the rug of the HIPAA confidentiality laws.

Then they claimed they “reduced school crime” by 60%!! See how it’s done? Class dismissed.

So basically you believe you know what Zimmerman was thinking and deciding because you know what you would decide and do in the same circumstance.

Except, Zimmerman is not you and you aren’t him. He can neither impact your rights and safety any more than you could help or hinder Zimmerman at this junction in time.

The idea that is flawed and false is that you know what Zimmerman was thinking and deciding, purely because the media gave you descriptions of what people thought happened and purely because you have an idea of yourself.

That is the flaw in the arch.

The best you can claim at this juncture is that you would have done things differently given Zimmerman’s context and events. Your claims weren’t so much focused on your own individual behavior as on other people. That was the conclusion you obtained.

“And that is his problem with self defense”

His problems are not your problems. When you start thinking like his judgment is somehow negatively affecting your circumstance, you go down a completely wrong road to begin with.

If you call into question Zimmerman’s judgment, for whatever reason, then I call into question your own judgment about what it is “other people should do”. Nothing you have said makes me think you have any idea of what is the right course of action for other people. All you have spoken of is training that benefits yourself.

Where is your training that allowed you to help, train, and benefit others though?

Conservatives are actually even weaker to this type of propaganda than other people, due to the ideology over “personal responsibility”.

The Left can blame all sorts of things on “personal responsibility” and their enemies eat it up. Sarah Palin was “responsible” for ethics violations. George Bush was “responsible” for lying about WMDs and people dying from lies.

People just eat it up.

Personally, the Left are full of evil people who need to be terminated with extreme prejudice and whenever they talk about personal or legal responsibility, I don’t hear a word of it. Not a single word. I don’t care who they think is responsible. I don’t care who they think is right or wrong. I don’t care who they think should be punished or crucified as a result of it.

I’ll deal with all those questions of “personal responsibility” after the blacks and other slaves have been freed and the Leftists terminated. Then we’ll hold a jury and trial, a real one, to determine who was “responsible for what”.

This is based upon the premise that one can read the minds of other people merely because journalism has exposed their private affairs.

Human empathy doesn’t cross hundreds of miles of real space, at least not normal human can do so.

It’s a very falsifiable premise. This makes the same mistake as it accuses Z of: bad judgment backed up by the erroneous assumption that one has the power and knowledge to get it right.