In 1970, after her parents sold their brake-repair business in Dallas,15-year-old Jane Saginaw went with her family on a monthslong trip to see the world. The journey was made more complicated by her wheelchair-bound mother, a polio survivor.
$74,000 into her account. zimmerman s defense team estimate the price tag for george s acquittal is in the millions and they re asking the state to reimburse $200,000 of his court expenses including transcript fees and experts who appeared in court. i just think it s absurd that he had to spend it. we had to spend it. the donors had to spend it and somebody should pay that back. the florida statute clearly authorizes the repayment of costs for a defendant who has been found not guilty. reporter: zimmerman continues to make headlines. last week he was spotted reportedly gun shopping at the caltech gun assembly plant in florida. and if the state of florida agrees to reimburse mr. zimmerman taxpayer also likely be picking up the tab or a portion of it. it s unclear whether the hundreds of dollars, thousands of dollars donated to zimmerman from supporters during the trial will factor in. some say it should.
there s some 400,000 schoolchildren there. that s not going to help very much. escorting kids to school, safe passage is very, very important. but we need to get to the root of the problem and what we all need to realize, the american public, we hold the solution in our hands by holding our elected officials responsibility. expanded background checks like the bill that congress the senate voted against back in march could do a lot to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and off our streets. so we need to realize the role that policy can play here and that the role that the american public can play by making their voice matter in terms of impacting policy and that s why we created this website voices against violence.com to let the american public sign for the first time a petition with their actual voices and say that their voice matters. it s things like that where we bring the voice to the marine public to american public to bear and have an impact. what about george zimme
historically thought showing weakness was a good idea. i listened to a fair number of speakers this weekend and none of them showed any weakness and none of them talked about promise or bringing the country together. a lot of people go to that convention care about hunting and there to look at the latest wares for sell. but some are concerned for the second amendment and a lot of people concerned with their own personal safety and belief that the way our society should be organized is their personal safety involves owning their owner guns and a lot of them. but there is also, in and you re right. i know a lot of people who along to the nra. gun shopping, no crime in that. the latest in weaponry, no crime in that and rifle ranges no crime in that and huntizing terrific, but there is a deliberate intent to mislead on the part of the nra leadership, to mislead and to incite to riot almost the members of the nra. and by that, i i mean, wayne lapierre and also people like
side. at the same time, democratic senator claire mccaskill of missouri, one of the top ten states for gun ownership background checks struck a different posture. everyone walks around, too many, worried about their nra score. they scoreed, nomination. they scored whether or not the attorney general was held in contempt. i have two words for the nra. score this. gun advocates argue the ban that feinstein authored and which was the law from 1994 to 2004 failed to prevent the columbine massacre, carried out in part with assault weapons in 1999. shep. shepard: james rosen in washington, a lot of americans have apparently decided to go gun shopping before any new restrictions may or may not take affect. colorado officials say the state set a new record for background checks over the weekend. a gun store owner in san diego says saturday was his biggest day in 20 years. officials reported long lines at a gun show in cincinnati that