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Trayvon Martin, Stand Your Ground and Gun Politics in America
Despite permissive new laws on gun use in many states, fewer American households have guns. With crime going down, does that mean gun control might have a future?
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenGeorge Zimmerman used a gun to kill Trayvon Martin and the jury said he acted in self-defense. But, despite permissive new laws on gun use in many states, fewer and fewer American households have guns. With crime going down, does that mean gun control might have a future? Also, Edward Snowden asks Russia for asylum, and in a major victory for Mexico's new President, the vicious enforcer for a drug cartel has been captured. We talk with a reporter who once thought he was a target for the Zetas.
Banner image: George Zimmerman leaves court with his family after Zimmerman's not guilty verdict was read in Seminole Circuit Court in Sanford, Florida, July 13, 2013. Photo: VOA
