Readers' Comments

The amount of children injured in gun accidents is miniscule. The majority of "children" injured by guns are the under 18 gang bangers, as well as their victims, in the inner cities. Firearms are used for a far greater amount of good than bad.

You should be embarrassed by the b s you've spewed in your comment.

Marijuana does NOT cause one to be violent! It does exactly the opposite. The most common side effect of marijuana is relaxation, not aggression. Alcohol commonly causes people to become angry or increase their anger, NOT marijuana. You show your ignorance with that statement. Zimmerman has a history of violence even against Police Officers. Again, he did not follow Police Officers directions to let them handle the situation. If he ever did attend Anger Management classes, they certainly weren't effective. Someone who is ordered to attend Anger Management Classes has a problem with managing his anger. Zimmerman's statements always accuse the victim of doing what he's done, typical of a perpetrator. He never should have been allowed to own a handgun in view of his past history of violence. Another one who fell through the cracks because of a lack of a background check. Zimmerman continues to be a violent "wanna be" authority figure and for you to ignore his history and recent history makes me wonder if you might not have the same mindset as Zimmerman, that of a predator.

When you stated that " 64% of Brits want to plant GM", I stopped reading your dumb comment. lol Listen dummy, I live in the UK and there's no way Brit's want GM planted over here lol Seriously, don't know where you got that number; must have come from that other dumb person of Owen Patterson who said that. lol In fact, all polls show that 80% of Brits want all meat which come from animal fed on GM labeled and even 60% of all UK farmers don't want the introduction of GM crops in the country. Man, go be dumb, misinformed and ignorant about this subject.

The author...neglects to note that the most common side effect of marijuana use is anxiety and panic."

No, the author simply didn't mention that some unnamed writer in Harvard Mental Health Letters made that claim.

Between 20 and 30 percent of recreational users experience intense anxiety and/or panic attacks after smoking cannabis." – 'Medical Marijuana and the Mind', Harvard Mental Health Letter, April 2010

Really? Suppose you smoke some pot and it has exactly the effect you wanted and expected: you feel mellow. Maybe you get the munchies. You'll grab your phone and call some researcher to report it, and say you didn't experience any anxiety or panic. Sure you will.

For all the extensive investigation this reporter did into Zimmerman's past, the story repeats common errors in the timeline based on the nearly 2 minute difference between the start of the dispatch call and the first entry in the dispatcher's log.

Using the correct times, there were 2-1/2 minutes between the end of the dispatch call and the connection of Jenna Lauer's 911 call, and 4-1/2 minutes between the time Zimmerman said "he's running" until the first 911 call. Also Jeantel's phone call to Trayvon terminated a full two minutes after Zimmerman ended his call to dispatch - during which Trayvon was apparently seeking out Zimmerman to give him the "whoop-ass" which Jeantel admitted he did, spurred on by Jeantel's suggestions that the "creepy ass-cracker" was a homosexual pervert.

The author notes that Zimmerman's past behavior was disallowed in the trial, but fails to note that Trayvon's much more recent past behavior was similarly disallowed, and the THC evidence was admissible because it was part of the autopsy.

The author also pretends that pot is a benign drug and neglects to note that the most common side effect of marijuana use is anxiety and panic. "Between 20 and 30 percent of recreational users experience intense anxiety and/or panic attacks after smoking cannabis." – "Medical Marijuana and the Mind", Harvard Mental Health Letter, April 2010

The author gives the most biased slant to Zimmerman's very few and distant past run-ins with the law, when a different reading of the same facts could just as easily show that the allegations were as questionable as the recent claim by Shellie Zimmerman of gun-wielding domestic violence which she and her father are refusing to file charges for since there was no evidence to support them.

In fact, Veronica Zuazo, the woman who took out the 2005 restraining order, testified to the FBI in 2012 that Zimmerman was “the last person” she would expect to be involved in a shooting incident, explaining that he “was not the type of person to place himself in a physical confrontation.”

Finally, the author fails to mention that the reason the Martin family - oddly re-united after a 14-year divorce - is NOT filing a civil suit against Zimmerman is because Trayvon's recent criminal history would be revealed, as well perhaps as the broken and adulterous Martin family history which seems to have contributed to Trayvon's downward spiral into trouble and violence.

Boy you hit on the nose about government interference. It always comes down to the almighty dollar.

North Carolina is starting to get raked over now. Citizens need to stand together and prevent this corruption wherever it pops up.

Most helpful would be a list of the legislators who went on this junket so efforts could be made to hold them responsible.

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