The mystery of the 7-11 and the Skittles
Posted on 04/13/2012 5:44:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Officially the National Rifle Association convention is not supposed to begin until Friday, at the America’s Center of St. Louis, Mo. But really the NRA convention began Thursday in a courtroom in Sanford, Fla., its keynote speech delivered by a man in a jail jumpsuit who barely said a word.
His name is George Zimmerman and he is not just the face of the NRA in this country, he is the face of gun laws built on the fears and paranoia of the gun lovers in the NRA, the ones who have made a mockery of the Second Amendment. His name is George Zimmerman and in all the big ways he is the darling of the NRA, which wants the whole country to shoot first and ask questions later.
And if an unarmed 17-year old kid ends up dead in the street, well, that’s just the cost of doing business.
Zimmerman: Another guy in America who should never have been allowed to carry a gun but sure had one the night he shot Trayvon Martin. A guy who finally got arrested for murder because a brave Florida prosecutor decided George Zimmerman wasn’t allowed to hide behind one of those Stand Your Ground laws that have become a better license to kill than James Bond ever had.
Mayor Bloomberg was talking about laws like that again yesterday, one day after delivering a speech in Washington that was the biggest and best speech any major American politician has ever given on the subject of guns.
“These laws are vigilantism masquerading as self-defense, and getting 25 states to pass them is one of the best con jobs the NRA’s leaders have ever pulled off,” Bloomberg said. “They don’t give a damn whether innocent people are shot and killed. And they don’t give a damn about the integrity of the American justice system. They want to create a nation where disputes are settled by guns instead of gavels, and where suspects are shot by civilians instead of arrested by police. These laws destabilize our justice system, they degrade our society, and they destroy innocent lives. We can’t be silent — and we can’t let them stand.”
And here is what Bloomberg said on Wednesday at the National Press Club, on the day when he and national African-American leaders announced a new partnership to reform or repeal shoot-first laws now on the books in Florida and 24 other states:
“The NRA’s leaders weren’t interested in public safety. They were interested in promoting a culture where people take the law into their own hands and face no consequences for it. Let’s call that by its real name: vigilantism.”
(VIDEO AT LINK)
Where is your evidence that Martin was a thug? I have heard that he had been suspended from school four times. I agree that is not great, but it doesn’t make someone a thug who is out walking at night looking to kill someone. BTW, my brother is a cop (20 years) and he feels that to take Zimmermans word for what happened is probaly naive. Let’s wait for the evidence. My question is, if Zimmerman was on bottom when he shot Martin, shouldn’t there by bood splattter on Zimmerman’ tee shirt. If his head was being pounded on concrete, shouldn’t there be significant inhury to the back of his head? If his nose was broken, where was the blood pooling beneath the eyes? Hopefully the police has the answers and photos to this. Untill then, lets keep from referring to Martin as a thug and Zimmerman as a hero.
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