There's a debate about whether Zimmerman should have been carrying

[MrScorpio]

142. This is not a discussion about any of the OTHER 300 million or so firearms in America

It's not about Farmer Joe's shotgun, or about Mrs. Peterson's Derringer, or even about Collector Mike's vast array of antiques and replicas. It's not even about anyone else's handgun that they carry with themselves in public.

This is about George Zimmerman and the loaded handgun that he brought into a confrontation against an innocent pedestrian who was doing nothing more than minding his own business.

He killed that person with his handgun… There isn't any dispute to this.

I'm quite aware that America has an extensive gun culture, even in a ostensibly liberal place like DU. Americans love their guns.

However, as George Zimmerman has shown us, any fool can buy, load, carry and use a gun… As many other fools are also wont to do.

I don't think it unreasonable to suggest that the greater part of gun responsibility is actually not demonstrated by when one uses a gun, but actually is when one makes a conscious choice NOT to use one.

Had Zimmerman chose to not use his gun in the confrontation that he himself initiated, particularly one which ONLY has a main purpose to shoot people, Trayvon Martin would therefore not be shot by it.