inappropriate to suggestion that 35 years ago trayvon could have been him or whatever. but if you look at the complete context of what the president said, i think what he was acknowledging was that we still have some issues of race and the way there is a divide between the country still, and it s a conversation that we need to have. reporter: do you think that this case is a legitimate starting off point for discussions about concealed weapon laws and stand your ground? this is not a stand your ground case, never was. i don t know that the facts of this could apply to stand your ground. but now that we re talking about stand your ground and wednesdayons lawednesdaapons laws and the way the system may be skewed, i think it s important to have those conversations. we re going to take a break here now on new day. when we come back, amusement park safety under scrutiny. investigators trying to figure out what caused a woman s
country. african-americans have been at every time one of these issues comes up, what we hear is this issue about black on black crime. the fact that there is crime within race, and there s no such thing as black on black crime. most crime happens within the same race. there s white on white crime too. the reality is we live in a gun-soaked violent society. what this verdict does is takes a very particular issue that african-americans for a long time have had with law enforcement, the issue of racial profiling, and now because of the stand your ground laws, because of our gun-soaked society, because of the concealed weapon laws, we re essentially saying that average citizens like george zimmerman, who have a fear in our racially anxious society, that a young teenager is a threat, can kill that teenager and can kill that teenager with impunity, the issue of gang violence does not change the reality i must i must i must
going forward here in florida, and perhaps nationwide as well? well, these cases, these self-defense cases happen all of the time. and it s really interesting in this case, because as defense attorney, a lot of the racial discrimination issues that you re hearing, defense attorneys are the ones that are dealing with it, because they re dealing with the young hispanic and black youths, defending them when they re saying they re profiled. so this issue is kind of flip-flopped. now you have the prosecutor who s in the position of defending a racial discrimination case. but those defense attorneys out there in florida are the ones who are on the ground floor representing a lot of the youth in these racial profiling cases. so that s what s a little disconcerting, especially since florida has been no friend to children as far as prosecuting children as adults. so going forward, i think that the huge elephant in the room is the concealed weapon laws, monitoring them, who you re giving the g
the center this discussion where it s not polarized and where we can say we need to reinstate the assault weapons ban, we need to close gun show loopholes, we need to limit the amount of ammunition that one person can buy, and we need to talk about boundaries on concealed weapon laws across the country in different states. we don t need to bring weapons into churches and schools. well, in fact, on the heels of what mr. lapierre was saying, sandy hook appears to have done everything right on that day of the shooting. do you think one armed guard could have stopped a determined man who was wearing a bulletproof vest, bulletproof gear, and carrying an assault rifle? you know, at the end of the day, the facts yesterday at this so-called press conference weren t accurate. there were armed guards at columbine. and data has shown that that is not the way to prevent violence. the real commonsense solution to this is to put in place some gun