@BillRM,
Quote:He might had indeed become a useful citizen but that is not the path he was on by his own actions such as being kicked out of his high school..
Oh, for Pete's sake, he wasn't kicked out of his high school. He wasn't anywhere near getting kicked out of school. He wasn't an angry anti-social kid. He wasn't disruptive in school, he wasn't defiant, he wasn't involved in criminal activities, these are your fantasies. He was a 16 year old kid who may have had some adjustment difficulties at a new school, and really nothing more than that.
The path he was on was to go to college, just like his brother. He had attended a program at an aviation school and he had dreams of becoming a pilot. And he had a loving and supportive family who would have helped him to follow those dreams.
And he was doing absolutely nothing wrong that night when a self-styled, gun-toting, vigilante inaccurately profiled him as a criminal and began stalking him in the dark...
The problem is that psychologically disturbed people, like Zimmerman, with poor control of their anger and impulses, and poor judgment, carry guns....