Scans_Daily

Are you a fellow Floridian, then? Speaking as a Floridian myself, I'm not at all sure that your assessment is fair. At least you should recognize that racism and/or the inability to treat it seriously as a problem are hardly uniform across the entirety of or state.

My personal take on the Trayvon Martin tragedy? It's utterly horrible, and the young man died under extremely questionable circumstances. On the other hand, not all of the facts of the case are known yet, and I think it's a little soon to be drawing societal conclusions from the tragedy and the ongoing controversy surrounding it.

Except, perhaps, that our "stand your ground" law was every bit as stupid an idea as the law's critics always warned it would be. I can't begin to tell you how disheartening it is to know that any one of us here in Florida have free license to use deadly force against anyone else, so long as we "BELIEVE" we are in serious danger. And, personally, I'm pretty sure that that bit of fancy brain-thinking on the part of our legislators is a large part of the reason why the shooter in this case has yet to be arrested.