Detroit’s future may depend on them.
[Update a few minuts later]
The single most important lesson gun owners should learn from the George Zimmerman case:
Part of the ethos of responsible concealed weapons permit holders is to avoid getting into dicey situations whenever possible. We should remain aware of our surroundings at all times. We should avoid getting into unnecessary conflicts. If conflicts arise, we should attempt to defuse rather than escalate them. If some jerk gets angry because he thinks we stole his spot in the grocery store parking lot, we should back down or remove ourselves from the situation — precisely because we recognize the deadly consequences if things escalate out of control.
In particular, we must not seek out confrontations counting on our handgun to bail us out of trouble. Anyone exercising his right to carry a firearm for self-defense has corresponding responsibility to exert greater — not lesser — control over his emotions.
I’ve never been a big fan of Zimmerman, or his behavior. I’ve just been appalled by all the false race-baiting narratives that the left and the media (if that’s not redundant) have come up with to demonize him and confer childhood and sainthood on the young thug Trayvon Martin.
Zimmerman committed the worst mistake he could have with Martin. And shooting him wasn’t the mistake, that was done because of his mistake.
Zimmerman’s mistake was in trying to keep following Martin, before the Police could get there, AFTER losing sight of him. Martin may have gotten away if he’d dropped back and waited, but Martin would be alive, and Zimmerman would have never been arrested, sent to trial, to get an acquittal, only to spend the rest of his life, looking over his shoulder.