<p>Actually I worry more about people who DON’T have an emotional reaction to kids (or adults) needlessly being shot and killed.</p>
<p>This isn’t the first time that a grown man has killed a child/young adult. In fact, I’m sure it happens everyday.</p>
<p>I’m missing what is so special about this case that warrants such extraordinary coverage and emotional discussion.</p>
<p>riprorin, everyone has their own reasons. Why are you even participating in this thread if you are not interested in it? Why do you need an answer?</p>
<p>Sometimes there is just a case that hits an emotional chord. Like the Casey Anthony trial. Or Scott Peterson. There is the element of mystery, nobody knows EXACTLY what happened and they want to fill in the blanks. They want to have it make sense.</p>
<p>I’m curious why people are so many are emotionally attached to this particular case when children/young adults are murdered everyday. I don’t get why Trayvon’s life appears to have more value to some than the other children/young adults who are killed.</p>
<p>Is that a bad question to ask?</p>
<p>“Sometimes there is just a case that hits an emotional chord. Like the Casey Anthony trial. Or Scott Peterson. There is the element of mystery, nobody knows EXACTLY what happened and they want to fill in the blanks. They want to have it make sense.”</p>
<p>Or maybe it’s because politicians and the media hyped this particular case to promote their own agenda.</p>
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<p>It’s the media that is hyping it up. They need to fill spaces in the papers and programming.
Most Americans get their perspectives from the media.</p>
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<p>I’d add that it has always seemed strange to me that GZ did not already have the phone in his hand. If I had just placed a call to police – and then I got out of my vehicle to find a street address to tell the police – I’d have the cell phone still in my hand, consistent with my intent to provide more info as soon as I had it in hand. </p>
<p>The fact that GZ apparently put the cell phone in his pocket, to me, is an indication that he was doing something other than looking for an address at the time. (Obviously his stated motivation was to follow and track “the suspect” - whether or not he planned to directly confront him.)</p>
<p>How do you know how much people care about each murder?</p>
<p>If you want to see a new murder case that makes even less sense see this one.</p>
<p>[Bullets</a> from drive-bys lead to suspected killer of Molly Conley | Local News | The Seattle Times](<a href=“http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021308794_conleyshootingxml.html]Bullets”>http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021308794_conleyshootingxml.html)</p>
<p>Instead of guessing how society works with concealed carry you could look at most of our history as a country, or any one of the four states that have no restrictions on concealed carry. It does not work how you think it would.</p>
<p>cbreeze, I think that this case is being hyped by politicians and the media to create racial division and to promote gun control. There may be other reasons too. I’m not going to let either group manipulate me</p>
<p>Riprorin, you’re bordering on obsession with the media. The media was crazy over Arias (sp?) who killed her boyfriend in Arizona (or something like that. I was not interested.) Ditto Scott Peterson, Casey Anthony. To be honest, I think there are two reasons why I pay attention to this case, one emotional and the other intellectual: First, I’m a father, and my own sons were Trayvon’s age not that long ago. The Duke Lacrosse case, the Amanda Knox case - they resonate with the Dad in me. Second, I see in this case an exemplar of the divide I see between the vigilante/NRA view of NRAvana America where every “good guy” carries a gun and shoots all the bad guys and the real world I live in where more bad stuff that happens occurs because of negligence or incompetence than “bad guys.” And negligence and incompetence and guns are a bad combination.</p>
<p>Guns are a big issue these days, and should be. A reasoned, rational discussion of the consequences of arming the nation to the teeth is a significant social good. This case represents an opportunity for that, IMHO.
cross-posted with raiders and riprorin giving examples of why this case should be discussed - because it is inconsistent with the world view of the NRA supporters, to the point that cognitive dissonance sets in when they try to deal with it.</p>
<p>I think the media is hyping this. It has all the great characteristics that they want for ratings. Death, race, mystery, etc. </p>
<p>TM’s mom has tried to purchase the rights to her son’s name so that she can tell his story and try to revive his reputation. That’s sad, and a reason I don’t really like portraying these cases like sporting events.</p>
<p>This morning I came out of a Big 5 Sporting Goods Store with a visitor/friend of mine from Ethiopia. He looked at the gun section, and asked if they were toys. “No,” I said, “Real.” “Really?” “Really.”</p>
<p>Now, every store we go into - drug store, Home Depot, grocery, he asks me if they sell guns there, too. He is fascinated…and appalled.</p>
<p>kluge, so in other words, this case resonates with you mainly because it’s a vehicle to promote your anti-gun agenda. Fair enough, I get that.</p>
<p>riprorin, could you be any more disingenuous? Why ask a question if you already have formulated your answer?</p>
<p>Please, everyone, refer back to post 1323.</p>
<p>Further discussion of politics on this thread will result in it being closed.</p>
<p>mini, point out to your Ethiopian guest that far more people are killed each year with hammers and clubs than rifles.</p>
<p>You may also may want to present him with the US Constitution as a gift.</p>
<p>You could point out that MLK and Ghandi were both gun rights supporters.</p>