“George Zimmerman may have acted legally, but the man is a sociopath.” Charles C.W. Cooke, National Review

Read this first. Try to stifle your dry heaves. George Zimmerman to Auction Weapon Used in Trayvon Martin Shooting

How do you feel? Little queasy? Good. You should. We have a serious problem in this country. There is a paradigm shift which is taking place all around us as we toodle along, blissfully unaware of the impending poop storm looming in the near distance. It begs the same question I seem to be asking myself daily; how much more bullsh*t are we supposed to take before enough is enough?

I know that the Conservative pages on social media are within hours of picking this story up and running their own pieces on it. That does not bother me. It is news and it is in the public domain. What does and will bother me are the inevitable comments. The internet is tricky. It is nearly impossible to decipher what is actual sentiment and what is the regurgitation of an antagonistic troll. I guarantee for every, “this is disgusting” there will be a meme of Trayvon with something tragically snarky written. For every, “I can’t believe this” there will be a, “don’t mess around and you won’t get shot” post.

Zimmerman acted within the law. Was he right to shoot the kid? I don’t know. Legality and what is, ‘right’ aren’t always interconnected. I wasn’t there. Neither were you. However, he is an unimaginably large POS. 4 easily googleable stories to prove my point:

1. He shoves a cop when he’s 22. Knowing that the person he’s shoving is a cop. Please, tell me more about his subsequent love affair with law and order.
2. 2013: Shoves a shotgun in his girlfriend’s face.
3. 2014: Road rage incident that leads to a mountain of BS.
4. 2015: Throws a wine bottle at his girlfriend.

Now he is selling the gun he used on a kid who was half his age because the kid was kicking the crap out of him. He picked a fight he couldn’t win. Let that sink in. We can no longer allow the absolute trash of society to be given places of even momentary prominence in the media. We can no longer allow ourselves to feed into it.

I’ll finish with this. For as long as there have been people, there have been creeps. The kind of people who would love to get their hands on a weapon if they know that it was used in a killing. Shadowy figures in an ersatz black market which is essentially seen as a sick fetish. Regardless of its potential future worth, the gun in question is a weapon that has taken a life and people drool over it. Pretty bad? Here’s the kicker; we now live in a USA where the question of whether or not to publicly auction such items off is no longer a question at all. Ah, what a time to be alive.