06-03-2013, 05:16 PM
(06-03-2013, 04:47 PM)crash Wrote: I have to admit that I have not been following thise case. Have no interest in it. But on the few thins I've read here and there, there seems to be an interest from the gun nut lobby to back the white guy. Is that the case with all your gun related draths like this where it's not that black and white (pardon the pun)? Do they feel threatened that there is a rolling snowball of things gathering towards a push for gun reform? Or is it just inherent redneck nature?
As it turns out, Zimmerman is not white. He has turned his back on his father's whiteness, and embraced his Peruvian roots from Momma Zimmerman. The irony is that Peru is hell of racist towards their black citizens. George is a dumbass if he thought that was going to help his cause. But yea, George is a dumbass.
You don't hear much from gun lobbyists in general about specific cases. Unless it involves questionable assault weapons and mass murder.
I think they picked up on this one a bit because of the national attention, and that George had a CWP.
But mostly because Trayvon Martin was black. George had every right to profile a black teen walking through the neighborhood as a criminal. And George's story just supported what they already believe. Blacks are savages.