On Zimmy's statement to the court

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29. What you fail to realize is that I am not Zimmerman ...

who is a aberration among those in Florida who have Concealed Weapons Permits. Currently over 800,000 Floridians currently have concealed carry licenses. Since 10/011987 when "shall issue" concealed carry became legal in Florida the state has issued a total of 2,167,283 carry permits.

During that 24 year + period of time, only 168 permits have been revoked due to the commission of a crime involving the use of a firearm after the license was issued. (source: http://licgweb.doacs.state.fl.us/stats/cw_monthly.pdf and http://licgweb.doacs.state.fl.us/stats/cw_active.pdf)

Of course you can refuse to ignore the statistics which are typical of states that allow "shall issue" concealed carry such as Texas or you can chose to believe what the media tells you. The media will tell you that the Florida concealed weapons program and the stand your ground law has turned Florida into the "Wild West" with licensed vigilantes running around the streets with a license to kill.

I realize that it is far more fun to believe the media who has told you in the past that Glock pistols are made totally of plastic and can be used by criminals and terrorists to bypass X-ray machines.

The introduction of the Glock lead to incorrect reports by the media claiming that the polymer composition of the gun's frame would render it invisible to metal detectors and airport X-ray machines,[16] a belief which was also echoed in the movie Die Hard 2.[17] These incorrect portrayals of the Glock pistol exposed the gun to a great deal of publicity, invariably leading to an increase of sales.[18]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock

You also would have got the impression that Teflon coated bullets are designed to penetrate the vest wore by police officers.

In 1982, NBC ran a television special on the bullets (against the requests of many police organizations) and argued that the bullets were a threat to police. Gun control organizations in the U.S. labeled Teflon-coated bullets "cop killers" because of the supposedly increased penetration the bullets offered against ballistic vests, a staple of the American police uniform. Many erroneously focused on the Teflon coating as the source of the bullets' supposedly increased penetration, rather than the hardness of the metals used. A common misconception, often perpetuated by films and television, is that coating normal bullets with Teflon will give them armor-piercing capabilities. In reality, Teflon and similar coatings were used primarily as a means to protect the gun barrel from the hardened bullet; the coating itself does not add any measurable armor-piercing abilities to otherwise normal ammunition.

The round in question could, in fact, penetrate a police vest. However, as Kopsch pointed out in a 1990 interview, "adding a teflon coating to the round added 20% penetration power on metal and glass. Critics kept complaining about teflon's ability to penetrate body armor... In fact, teflon cut down on the round's ability to cut through the nylon or kevlar of body armor." [2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teflon-coated_bullet

And of course the media keeps publishing stories about the "high powered" assault rifle that is far more deadly than your father's hunting rifle because it resembles the fully automatic assault rifles used by the military.

This police officer debunks that myth:

I only mentioned three examples of how the media misleads its audience about issues involving firearms.

All I can say is that while it is true that people with concealed carry permits are not angels, statistics show that we are, when compared with other groups of individuals (including police officers), unusually law abiding and responsible citizens.