Which is hyperbole on your part.
People are really shooting other people because they were cut off in traffic, got into a shouting match at a bar or looked at each other funny.
And, by the evidence, it was not Martin that "picked out" Zimmerman. We have no clue as to whether Martin even knew Zimmerman was armed.
We DO KNOW, by the FACTS, Zimmerman picked out Martin. And Zimmerman thought Martin may have been armed.
He chased him anyway.
What other people are doing in other situations is irrelvant to what happened between GZ and TM, of course.
The EVIDENCE is what should be determinative.
And the EVIDENCE is consistent with GZ's account.
It is inconsistent with the State's claims.
And no. We don NOT "know" that GZ "picked out" TM. Where do you come up with this silly stuff?
We know that he OBSERVED TM, found him to be suspicious and reported what he saw and followed TM.
and ANYBODY might be armed.
Too bad TM didn't think of that.
The time span from when Zimmerman spotted Martin to the time he shot him is seven minutes.
This wasn't a long chase. Half of that time was spent on a well lit street where Zimmerman spots Martin, Zimmerman says Martin circles the car and then Zimmerman says Martin is getting away.
It's not consistent that Zimmerman, who "fears" Martin is armed, follows him into a dark courtyard to "get an address" and that within that timeframe Martin secrets a location to "lie in wait" and attack Zimmerman.
It doesn't make sense from Zimmerman's statement that Martin is running away nor does it make any sense given the time that Martin had to "plot" this attack.
And it doesn't make any sense to "get an address" in an area with no lights.
Zimmerman admits to both following Martin and then changes the story that he kept going to find the address across the courtyard.
And that doesn't make sense.
