I think that's because it's easy to make the assumption that generally speaking, people with CCP carry everywhere, not because they intend to shoot anyone, and generally speaking, highschool kids with screwdrivers and jewelry stole it.
Yes, it is easy. Very easy. But that doesn't necessarily make them
correct assumptions.
For starters, I don't know anyone with a CCP. I'm not even sure if I know anyone who owns a gun. If I do, those people keep it locked away somewhere. The idea of someone arming themselves to make a run to the store is completely foreign to me, and if someone did so in my presence I would be very uncomfortable.
The point is, I understand that for
some people in
some parts of the country walking around with a gun for no particular reason is just part of everyday life. But it's not like that for everyone, and to pretend it is, and to further pretend that doing so is a perfectly innocuous activity is just a bit disingenuous.
Secondly, I acknowledge that a high school kid with a screwdriver and a bunch of jewelry in his backpack looks suspicious. But everyone has seemed to jump to the conclusion that a) this account is actually true and b) Martin is automatically guilty of a crime that there is actually no evidence of ever having occurred.
Occam's Razor was invoked to demonstrate the likelihood of Martin having been involved in the burglary of someone's home. But Occam's Razor seems to go out the window when considering why the person whose home was burglarized didn't report it, or why Martin wasn't turned over to the police with such damning evidence of a felony.
I don't know if that account was incomplete, embellished or fabricated, but I do know it doesn't make a lot of sense. As I said before, all we have is this great story of criminal behavior for anyone who wants to believe the worst about Trayvon Martin that is credible right up to the point of actually being verified by law enforcement.
