George Zimmerman; What Won't He Do To Make Headlines?

He certainly doesn't stop at being one of the most reviled people in the United States! There should be a law against people like him doing the things he does. (IMHO)

George Zimmerman is Auctioning the Gun Used to Kill Trayvon Martin

Zimmerman in court 2012

 

     No, it's not a joke; the Justice Department has returned the weapon to him (since he was acquitted) and he is actually auctioning off the gun that he used to kill Trayvon Martin in 2012. 

     Zimmerman  has had a very eventful life in the public eye since the killing of Martin. IMO, some of the events are ones that he engineered, or at the very least, twisted to make sure that his name was remembered. For instance, 4 days after he was acquitted, he was in the spotlight for helping a family who had been in a car crash. What struck me though was the fact that, at least in this article, the only name mentioned is his, even though there was another man who helped him to get the family out of their SUV!

 " Four days after his acquittal, Zimmerman and another man helped a family get out of an overturned SUV in Florida, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said.

"They got everyone out of the car," a 911 caller reported. About a minute later, the caller said, it looked like the vehicle was catching fire."

Not the other man, not the 911 caller, not anyone from the Seminole County Sheriff's Office had their name mentioned. Wonder how it happened that Zimmerman's name was? 

And now, as if all his other exploits were not enough, he's publicly auctioning off the gun which he used to commit murder, knowing how much more hated he is going to be for trying to profit from the purposeful death of someone's child. He doesn't seem to care though, but why should he? He stands to make quite a bit of money, although not the $65M that was bid on the site; that appears to be a joke, and has since been removed. It just seems to me like Zimmerman is trying to rub everyone's noses in the fact that he can do what he wants to do with impunity. His words:

In an interview with FOX affiliate WOFL, Zimmerman said he is "a free American."

"I can do what I want with my possessions," he told the station.

UPDATE: While initially it seemed that United Gun Group was going to allow the auction to run, according to CNN it appears to have been discontinued, as of Saturday morning. (I could not find corroboration of this anywhere else.)

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