Unlike in movies, in real life when someone has decided that they are going to shoot or kill somebody experiences a massive rush of adrenaline as they are winding up to actually do the deed.
Granted, there are probably Mexican drug cartel killers who don't get worked when they are about the shoot someone, but that's not how normal react to life and death.
Here is a recording of a man who observes burglars at his neighbor's house. He states early on, and throughout the call that he is willing to shoot them. As he sees them exiting the house, he decides that he needs to go and stop them. You can hear the tone of his voice change, the pitch gets higher, you can hear the stress as that adrenaline rushes in and he prepares himself for violence.
Man shoots burglars.
Let's now listen to George Zimmerman's call to the police. His tone stays pretty calm and even the whole time, which is consistent with someone who is not ramping themselves up to go shoot somebody.
(There is some swearing.)
Zimmerman's call
Either George Zimmerman is Han Solo, http://youtu.be/mu-TZpGdszA?t=1m47s or a cold blooded mass murder, or he wasn't planning on shooting Trayvon Martin.
Just my two cents.
I've
been riling up half my friends lately, poking at emotional knee-jerk
reactions to prompt rational debate. But there is a lot of emotion on
both sides of some issues, so in the interest of fair play:
What degree of gun control are you hoping to get? Background checks,
outright bans on assault weapons, outright bans on semiautomatics, or
outright bans on all guns? Explain to me what such steps would hope to
accomplish, because I'm skeptical that they'd deter mass shootings or
hard crime. Delusions of tyrannical coups, being the hero that stops a
bank robbery, or zombie invasions aside, why should I not be concerned
that outlawing basic semiautos or shotguns would undermine our ability
to protect my loved ones, especially if I lived in a higher crime
neighborhood?
What degree of gun control are you hoping to get? Background checks, outright bans on assault weapons, outright bans on semiautomatics, or outright bans on all guns? Explain to me what such steps would hope to accomplish, because I'm skeptical that they'd deter mass shootings or hard crime. Delusions of tyrannical coups, being the hero that stops a bank robbery, or zombie invasions aside, why should I not be concerned that outlawing basic semiautos or shotguns would undermine our ability to protect my loved ones, especially if I lived in a higher crime neighborhood?