Suppose races in Trayvon Martin case HAD been reversed?

Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm wears a hoodie in support of the family of Trayvon Martin who was killed Feb. 26, in Sanford, Fla. (AP

The Trayvon Martin case is now spinning into a debate
about race because 17-year-old Trayvon was black, and 28-
year-old George Zimmerman, who shot him, was white, or
Hispanic, or Peruvian, or Catholic. Depends on who you
talk to. And I’ve heard the question, what if
Zimmerman had been black and had killed a white person?

Well, as it turns out there is such a case in a Florida
court right now. In 201,0 a black man named Trevor Dooley
drew his gun and shot David James as the two were fighting
over whether skateboarders should be allowed on a
basketball court.

In this case the shooter was arrested and charged with
manslaughter, but he is now seeking to have the charges
dismissed under Florida’s Stand Your Ground law.
Which is why pressure is building to change that law. To
do that, they’ll have to get past this woman:

“Bleeding heart criminal coddlers want you to give a
criminal an even break,” said Marion Hammer, past
president of the NRA, who talked to Dan Rather on HD Net
in 2009:

“When you are prosecuting law abiding people for
defending themselves against criminals, it’s wrong and it
has to be fixed.”

In the meantime, I found this kind of shocking: The St.
Pete Times reports that justifiable homicides in
Florida have been happening at the rate of two a week.

I’m a little surprised the Right to Life people aren’t
out there demonstrating.

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