re: #684 palomino

Ask yourself why the far right is defending Zimmerman and doubling down on Trayvon being a thug. A much better strategy, from their perspective, would be calling Zimmerman a rogue and dismissing the whole incident as “an isolated incident” that doesn’t reflect any ongoing racial problems.

Unfortunately, a la Dan Riehl, a lot of conservative whites see young urban black men as inherently criminal, and are frankly happy to see one of them taken out, even if his only weapon was a bag of Skittles.

Because gun laws in this country were created to control minorities. So, in their minds, Zimmerman was doing exactly what he was supossed to be doing as an upstanding patriot. Martin should not have been “walking while a young black man”

Florida has a particular history for this as cited and often used by the same 2nd Amendment Advocates who are standing up for Zimmerman. The hypocrisy is astounding.

“There are other examples of remarkable honesty from the state supreme courts on this subject, of which the finest is probably Florida Supreme Court Justice Buford’s concurring opinion in Watson v. Stone (1941), in which a conviction for carrying a handgun without a permit was overturned, because the handgun was in the glove compartment of a car:

I know something of the history of this legislation. The original Act of 1893 was passed when there was a great influx of negro laborers in this State drawn here for the purpose of working in turpentine and lumber camps. The same condition existed when the Act was amended in 1901 and the Act was passed for the purpose of disarming the negro laborers and to thereby reduce the unlawful homicides that were prevalent in turpentine and saw-mill camps and to give the white citizens in sparsely settled areas a better feeling of security. The statute was never intended to be applied to the white population and in practice has never been so applied. [35]”

I just checked Clayon Cramer’s blog and he doesn’t seem to be a Zimmerman groupie. So, I won’t include him in the sweeping hypocrisy statement.