The Kel-Tec PF-9, 9mm pistol handgun used to kill the unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 has apparently been sold for $250,000 (£172,000). It was put up for auction by George Zimmerman, who was charged and acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter.
The killing was instrumental in launching the national Black Lives Matter social movement and demonstrates the moral bankruptcy both of Zimmerman and his supporters in the NRA.
Zimmerman backed out of another, lower priced deal with a Mr. Honeycutt, who said “I thought he was a man of his word”. Give me a break! How can anyone talk about someone’s “word” in the face of an utterly immoral transaction that profits from the death of an innocent man walking home from a shop, minding his own business. Gun rights advocates say he was exercising his legal rights under US law. Invading Iraq was “legal” as well. To give a taste of Zimmerman’s world view, he called GunBroker, another gun dealer involved in the affair, “Nazi-loving liberal liars”. Charming.
The Martin family lawyer Benjamin Crump told Fox the sale was “offensive, outrageous and insulting”. You bet!
This is absolutely outrageous! I can’t see it happening in any other developed nation. Anyone who claims America is post-racial because of Obama needs to pay more attention to this story. There’s also the problem of the glorification of violence. Regardless of your views of the Zimmerman case, the pistol in question ought to be in police hands as evidence, not sold to the highest bidder.