I’ve not followed every nuance of the legal case … despite the efforts of American Cable TV.

My uninformed conclusions are these:

• George Zimmerman is a weirdo who’ll be hunted and hopefully haunted by this the rest of his life.

• George Zimmerman should probably have been found innocent, as he was. There was reasonable doubt.

One more point, important to me.

Robin D.G. Kelley:

… In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, Senator Rand Paul, Florida State Representative Dennis Baxley (also sponsor of his state’s Stand Your Ground law), along with a host of other (Gundamentalist) Republicans, argued that had the teachers and administrators been armed, those twenty little kids whose lives Adam Lanza stole would be alive today.

Of course, they were parroting the National Rifle Association’s talking points. The NRA and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the conservative lobbying group responsible for drafting and pushing “Stand Your Ground” laws across the country, insist that an armed citizenry is the only effective defense against imminent threats, assailants, and predators.

But when George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin, an unarmed, teenage pedestrian returning home one rainy February evening from a neighborhood convenience store, the NRA went mute. Neither NRA officials nor the pro-gun wing of the Republican Party argued that had Trayvon Martin been armed, he would be alive today. …

read more on HuffPo

Gundamentalists piss me off 😦