The shoot-to-wound road is a tricky one to go down.
I believe that if you are in enough control of the situation to say you're going to dispense a gunshot with less lethal intent then you're not in fear of your life and probably shouldn't use deadly force, at all.
According to Zimmerman, he wasn't just wrestling around... he wasn't just not able to get away... he was getting beaten and afraid that he would lose consciousness and worse.
Plus, how do you know that first shot won't be your last? Especially considering that Zimmerman's gun only fired the chambered round and failed to cycle the next. There's no way to know your best shot is going to reliably stop the attack, why bet your life on a purposefully lousy one?
In my opinion it still stands that your first shots should be to the most effective area that they can reliably hit. If that's an attacker's foot and all you can get to for whatever reason, so be it... but when cross the threshold of deadly force and can place rounds to the vitals its a no-brainer.
I believe that if you are in enough control of the situation to say you're going to dispense a gunshot with less lethal intent then you're not in fear of your life and probably shouldn't use deadly force, at all.
According to Zimmerman, he wasn't just wrestling around... he wasn't just not able to get away... he was getting beaten and afraid that he would lose consciousness and worse.
Plus, how do you know that first shot won't be your last? Especially considering that Zimmerman's gun only fired the chambered round and failed to cycle the next. There's no way to know your best shot is going to reliably stop the attack, why bet your life on a purposefully lousy one?
In my opinion it still stands that your first shots should be to the most effective area that they can reliably hit. If that's an attacker's foot and all you can get to for whatever reason, so be it... but when cross the threshold of deadly force and can place rounds to the vitals its a no-brainer.