Kathleen Parker accuses the President of complicity in the murder of Christopher Lane.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

19. Seriously, what could he say, other than it was a senseless tragic murder?

The President said that Trayvon Martin could have been him 30 years ago and that if he had a son, he'd look like Trayvon, because it was true.

What's he going to say? "Christopher Lane was me 25 years ago, because I was actually a 20 year old Australian exchange student playing baseball at one point in my life"?

The Trayvon Martin murder was an extraordinary case. It wasn't notable because George Zimmerman was white and Trayvon Martin was black. It was notable because it raised issues about racial profiling and about laws written by gun lobbyists that appeared to subvert the normal judicial process.

And the right hated that the Trayvon Martin case was in the headlines, because they didn't want to admit that there are still discussions to be had about race in 2013 and they didn't want to admit that a legal gun owner with a CCW could act recklessly or maliciously with his legally owned gun.

Make no mistake about it. The right couldn't give two shits about what happened to Christopher Lane. They just want to throw around his case to cheapen the discussion that surrounded the Zimmerman murder case. And because they think the public is so stupid that they'll automatically view all cases where someone of one race kills someone of another race as exactly the same.