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That tweet above was done by Robert Zimmerman, the brother of George Zimmerman, the alleged killer of Trayvon Martin:

Robert Zimmerman, Jr., brother of Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman, continued his everything-including-the-racist-kitchen-sink PR offensive on behalf of his brother by repeatedly tweeting a photo comparison of the teenager his brother shot, and De’Marquise Elkins, the 17 year-old who has been detained in the murder of a Georgia infant. Both pictures feature the young men flipping the middle finger at the camera, with the caption “A picture speaks a thousand words…Any questions?”

Zimmerman has, thus far, tweeted the comparison to the Anthony half of Opie and Anthony, Michael Moore, the NAACP, and a Breitbart News editor, as well as the NRA. If Zimmerman’s point is that anyone who uses that gesture is a murderer, then they’re going to have to arrest the entire Garden State Parkway. If you suspect that wasn’t his point, you might be right.

Sounds to me like Robert Zimmerman is becoming the prosecutions biggest asset, creating even more proof that George Zimmerman's actions last year could have been racially motivated. Other tweets make it even more obvious, posting things like:

Teen to West: “Do you want me to shoot your baby?” #TrayvonMartin to #GeorgeZimmerman : You’re gonna die tonight Motherf**ker”

As well as:

Lib media shld ask if what these2 black teens did 2 a woman&baby is the reason ppl think blacks mightB risky

A growing problem in the tech age has been sexting, the sending of racy photos of one to another via text message. It's an epidemic that is really evident in our schools.

Here in Ohio we are no strangers to sexting. We have seen one local student commit suicide over a sexting scandal and now have another school involved in a huge scandal.

Police and officials at a Cincinnati-area high school say hundreds of students may have been involved in recent cases of "sexting."

There have two been recent investigations into cases at Madeira High School of students circulating photos of nude or sexually involved students on their cell phones.

In January, officers confiscated up to eight cell phones belonging to high school students that had videos on them made by a male student who the Madeira police chief says has since been expelled.

In a second investigation, an official estimated that "hundreds" of Madeira students and possibly others outside the school had received or circulated pictures of naked female students. That case has been dropped according to Chief Frank Maupin since the parents did not wish to press charges.

In the January case, the student has been charged with a four felony counts of pandering obscenities involving a minor. His attorney says he is not guilty.

In Ohio sexting is a felony, on par with distributing child pornography. I have never heard of the parents having a say in rather a child is prosecuted for a felony like this or not. The reasons the chief gives are also laughable:

Maupin says while the students involved may have been tech savvy, were lacking in legal know-how.

"I think the majority of them, they don't understand or realize the consequences criminally, let alone if that were to get out on the Internet," he said.

It has been 48 days since Adam Lanza went to Sandy Hook Elementary and engaged in a shooting spree that left 20 children shot dead. Since then a lot has been discussed about gun control and legislation is slowly starting to form.

But there has been one question that has been plaguing me since that gruesome December morning - how many guns deaths have happened in the United States since then? Well Slate has started a crowd sourcing project to answer that question and right now the tally stands at 1,444.

1,444??? That's over 30 gun deaths per day in our nation. That is also about 1/2 of a 9/11 in under two months.

How can anyone in their right mind hear that and not think "my God, we have a serious problem"? Sadly they do though. If you listened to the Senate testimony of NRA talking head, Wayne LaPierre yesterday, you know that the nation's biggest gun organization thinks this is all perfectly normal.

Hopefully during this debate common sense can prevail and the powerful money of the gun lobby will be defeated. Our nation has a serious epidemic when it comes to guns and we desperately need a cure.

Because we have idiots like this in our nation:

Two men were arrested in Ohio on Wednesday after their target practice with an AK-47 assault rifle accidentally shot up a woman’s home and nearly hit a officer who was responding to reports of gunfire.

Mary Kuruc told WEWS that her daughter discovered a bullet hole in the siding of their Montville Township home and other holes inside the house. After calling 911, Montville Police Sgt. Matt Neil began investigating and the home was hit again.

“We noticed a second bullet hole, followed the trajectory of it and noticed the bullet landed in the microwave,” Kuruc recalled.

Neil found himself in the line of fire as he tried to track down where the bullets were coming from.

Luckily this story did end so bad, but imagine if the officer actually did get shot or there were children playing in the house, where the bullets hit. It's the irresponsible, drunken, "it will never happen to me" attitude that so many of these idiots have that makes them a danger. Even more dangerous is the fact that people like the NRA will go to great lengths to defend them.

Bob Cesca points to this interview Chris Christie gave about gun control.

Christie was asked about specific gun control measures, and instead talked about violent video games. “We don’t allow those games into our house…we think it desensitizes children to all the effects of violence,” and added that all of the issues related to gun violence needed to be dealt with.

When pressed on why he couldn’t answer whether he supports a ban on assault weapons, he said that it depends. “These are complicated issues,” he said. “I’m willing to have that conversation.”

As Bob says, it sure sounds like Christie is towing the NRA line.

But how good is that line?

Yesterday marked the one year anniversary since a member of Congress was shot. Gabby Giffords, along with 19 other people were shot on that day, leaving 6, including a federal judge, dead. In the days following the shooting there was a lot of finger pointing going on. Some of that came from the left. They pointed to gun violence in political ads as a possible motivator, including this map Sarah Palin had posted on her website that includes a target over Giffords district.

I just got done watching the NRA press conference and all I can do is shake my head. The first thing I would like to know is why does this group have the power they do? The NRA only has 4 million members. That's almost 1/2 of what MoveOn.org has, yet they have so much more power.

But putting that little fact aside, here's what I took away from what NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre had to say:

Let's blame those pesky "gun free zone" signs

Yes, he actually blamed those. He said it invites in these shooters. Just like deer crossing signs tell the deer exactly where to cross.

We must blame movies and video games, not guns.

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What he failed to mention was that these same movies and games are available in about every other country, yet they don't have the violence we do.

Armed police in every school - By January!

This was a biggie. He wants Congress to pass legislation putting police in every single school. He said nothing of this being public only and/or all. On just public k-12 schools, we have over 98,000. Police average close to $50,000/year in salary alone. This doesn't account for benefits, training, etc. So if we go with that $50,000/year, that's $5 billion per year we must come up with just to put one officer in each school.

He also said "imagine if there was an armed guard at Sandy Hook?" Well we can. It was called Columbine, where there was an armed guard. He managed to fire 2 shots and then ran! Experiment failed Mr. LaPierre.

Final thoughts

The NRA is doing what the NRA always does - pushing for more guns and absolving themselves of any fault. This is the same failed NRA that we have had for the past couple of decades. It's time to remove them from the conversation, as their numbers and words are meaningless anymore. It's time to remove their lobbying power and the only way to do that is for our leaders to ignore them. Please, can our leaders do that?

They are too idiotic to realize it, but it's the pro-gun idiots out there that are pushing our nation to tougher firearms control. Take this story out of Salt Lake City:

A 6th grade student brought an unloaded handgun to West Kearns Elementary School Monday.

The 11-year-old boy told other students his parents encouraged him to bring a gun to school for protection following the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday.

The boy reportedly pulled the gun, a .22-caliber pistol, out of his backpack during recess Monday morning.

“At recess, he pointed a gun to my head and said he was going to kill me,” said Isabel Rios, one of the boy’s fellow 6th grade students.

First off. These parents, who by the love of God should not be allowed to reproduce, much less own weapons, put their child in more harms way. Pulling an unloaded weapon is extremely dangerous in violent situations. It makes the perpetrator take instant notice at you, and the most you can maybe do is throw the weapon at them. Smooth move, idiots! Hopefully your child is taken away from you.

Second, this shows that not everyone should have the right to own a gun. These parents sure as hell shouldn't considering they have given a firearm to a child. The parents should also be facing charges for child endangerment, but there is no word on that either.

One can only suspect that the parents are big pro-gun nuts. These are the people that think the only solution to any problem is with a firearm. These people are the biggest threat to the 2nd amendment we have.

Since Sandy Hook last week, we are seeing a big shift in opinion, both from the public and politicians. One more Sandy Hook incident and we will see even a bigger shift. A couple more and there will be enough support in this nation to repeal the 2nd amendment. So what's that say to the gun nuts?

Yesterday David Gregory said on Meet the Press that all 31 pro-gun rights senators refused to come on the show. On Friday, following the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the NRA hid their Facebook page.

Why are these people in hiding and not out defending what they believe in? Do they realize that they are only hurting their own cause?

What happened Friday may have a silver lining. Sadly it took the needless murders of some of our most vulnerable, young children, but we may finally have the national discussion our country has so needed for years. We might finally get to talk about what is causing so many of our citizens to snap and kill so many innocents and what we can do to prevent it.

Needless to say gun control will be part of this debate. That part of the debate is very much needed, as is the part of mental health, violence in movies and video games and lyrics in songs. We need to discuss everything that can be contributing to this to see if a solution lies in that aspect. Ignoring one part defeats the whole purpose.

So why are these pro-gun rights advocates in hiding? Now is the time for them to make their cases and be heard. The very much need to be part of the debate, just like those against all guns. Without all sides of the arguments being heard, we can't come to a reasonable conclusion.

Like many other Americans, I do believe in our right to bear arms. I also believe that the second amendment has been outdated and technology advances need to be considered in changes. We no longer have the days of musket loaders that fire a single shot every 30 seconds. We live in a time of high power, automatic weapons that can shoot a dozen rounds per second. These are guns with a single purpose - to kill mass people.