It's Never About

Race.

Or guns, or corporate-written legislation.

Or the unaccountable violence of authority.

Or right-wing media.

Or who benefits by keeping people frightened and ignorant, and by possibly giving the frightened and ignorant a new star.

Little enough justice, but perhaps Steve M. is correct in seeing Zimmerman as too incompetent to cash in; merely "a sad man who briefly became a hero to angry people for doing a horrible thing."