Written By C.D. “Chuck” Michel

Over the last year, more than 200 black seventeen year olds were murdered in the United States. None of them were Trayvon Martin.

It is the perception of conflict and violence that drives our attention. So it comes as no surprise that politicians try to drive our attention toward issues with which they can make political points, and away from the real issues that are difficult to solve or that bring them criticism. In the White House enhanced hysteria over a Florida self-defense verdict, there has been an unsubtle shift of the conversation in precisely the wrong direction, to long standing laws and court decisions governing self-defense. Florida is a “stand your ground” state, meaning only that one part of the law of self-defense does not mandate anyone to flee an attacker. The rest of Florida’s self-defense laws allow the use deadly force, but only if otherwise legally justified. Even with the stand-your-ground component, this is far from a license to kill. There are many legal strings attached to using deadly force –in any state.

Regardless, the case against George Zimmerman... http://www.calgunlaws.com/206-trayvon-martins-ignored/