Zimmerman was justified in shooting

If George Zimmerman had been a police officer, there wouldn't have been any charges or trial. He would have been given a hero's reward. Law enforcement personnel sometimes shoot unarmed and non-attacking citizens and no charges are filed. The news media pounded away on an unarmed Trayvon Martin and you're not even supposed to think a man, even though unarmed, can be in an attack mode and do a lot of injury to a victim.

Remember Eric Shaw in Iowa City in the mid ‘90s, was in his own office, on the phone, unarmed, non-attacking, no threat to anyone, was shot and killed by the police, but no charges were ever filed and it was just excused away. Any common citizen doing the same thing would have been fed to the lions.

Our U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and our gun-hating, Second Amendment-hating government are so outraged because a constitutionally minded jury found Zimmerman not guilty for saving his own life by shooting an attacker. They think Zimmerman should have been dead or beaten and politically correct. Now they are thinking up new charges. They'll keep grinding away until they nail him for something.

This letter is not anti-police. Any citizen or police officer being victim of a violent attack has the right to shoot the attacker and I will not convict the would-be victim if I sit on the jury in such a case regardless of what the judge says.

Herman Lenz

Sumner