17yr old black kid shot and killed for walking in white suburbia?

[BluegrassCat]

True colors really starting to show through: Right-wingers now calling Martin a gang-banging punk and calling Zimmerman a hero for shooting an unarmed teenager. Just disgusting.

http://moonbattery.com/?p=9744http://bit.ly/GSI1By

[EvonRose]

Explain that one for a start, please.

The UK in its essentially unarmed state has 2% of the gun crime rate of the US.

I was right first time around. You're a moron.

I want to move to the UK.

[robertlouis]

I want to move to the UK.

I've tidied the house.....

[Willie Escalade]

"We live in America where a girl that threw flour on Kim Kardashian was arrested on site. But the man who KILLED Trayvon Martin is still free." -Willard Christopher Smith, JR

And THIS is why so many are upset. With those other incidents, someone was almost ALWAYS arrested.

[Willie Escalade]

Also, if he HAD to shoot an unarmed man who "posed a threat to his safety", why didn't he shoot him in the leg or something?

[Stavros]

An armed society is a polite society.

Right now in the UK only the criminals are armed. What I am suggesting is arming the law abiding citizens.

Factually speaking, only a small percentage of Policemen are 'authorised firearms officers', with an exception for Northern Ireland for obvious reasons. In addition, most farmers have a licence to own a firearm; licences are also issued on a regular basis to members of gun clubs and relevant sporting societies. When Prince Charles and his sons go on a shooting weekend, to shoot grouse or pheasant, they too must have first obtained a licence to carry weapons. So law abiding citizens can possess weapons, but the majority do not, it is a cultural thing. Many more French people, for example, own guns and go hunting at weekends. The guns that criminals use tend to be borrowed, or purchased from illegal sources -if a young black man strolls into a police station in north London to ask for a gun licence, he runs the risk of being arrested, for wasting police time. If I were to go to my local police station for the same reason, I would not get a licence because I cannot explain why I want a gun. Its not easy, and it shouldn't be.

The key in this Trayvon Martin case is the way the facts come out drip by drop, so that was was true on Monday is not true on Wednesday, and what was true on Wednesday isn't true by the weekend.

[notdrunk]

Also, if he HAD to shoot an unarmed man who "posed a threat to his safety", why didn't he shoot him in the leg or something?

Because this isn't the movies. People are thought to go for the center mass because it is a big area. If someones adrenaline is pumping, most people can't focus on shooting a limb. In this case, they were in a struggle and where very close together. So, the possibly of limb shooting is out of the question.

[notdrunk]

*were very close together..boo to one time editing

[Jericho]

Explain that one for a start, please.

The UK in its essentially unarmed state has 2% of the gun crime rate of the US.

I was right first time around. You're a moron.

Yay, but that's because most of the population is legally unarmed !

If we had the same gun laws as the sates, our murder rate would be off the scale! (give a brit a gun, he wants to shoot some fucker)! We're not mentally predisposed to carry weapons.

[Jericho]

Also, if he HAD to shoot an unarmed man who "posed a threat to his safety", why didn't he shoot him in the leg or something?

People are trained to shoot at the chest...Times of stress, training takes over.
Not excusing it, just the way it is.!