Monday, July 15, 2013

Obama uses Zimmerman verdict to urge less gun violence, more federal intervention | The Daily Caller

Obama uses Zimmerman verdict to urge less gun violence, more federal intervention | The Daily Caller: President Barack Obama issued a statement Sunday saying that the Trayvon Martin case should spur action on community “compassion” and “gun violence,” but made no mention of George Zimmerman, who is facing widespread anger and threats following his acquittal by a jury, and offered no reassurances of his safety.

“I know this case has elicited strong passions,” said the president, who stirred those passions last March with an emotional claim in the White House’s Rose Garden that “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”

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