“If Trayvon Martin hadn’t been black, he might still be alive today. But ultimately, if Zimmerman hadn’t been carrying a gun, the confrontation that he initiated that night in February when he shot the 17-year-old dead might have been nothing more than a fistfight, if that. And everyone knows you don’t bring a gun to a fistfight.” – Petula Dvorak in Zimmerman is the face of legal gun ownership gone terribly wrong [at washingtonpost.com]