Toure On Aurora I Hoped That It Would Be A Trayvon Martin Situation
- 12 years ago
Toure (one word), MSNBC's resident expert on race
"We understand those are outlier crimes, somebody going to shoot up the mall or shoot up the school. I would hope that it would be a Trayvon Martin situation that would make people think, 'Wow. wrongful death, even though it's a legal gun owner. How do we move forward from this situation?' But so much of this issue, I think comes down to, 'Let's make sure law abiding white people have access to guns and make sure that black criminals are not,'" MSNBC's Toure said on "The Cycle" today.
"And we don't even want to talk about that sort of racial, black are at the bottom of it all, but that's definitely part of it," Toure added.
"We understand those are outlier crimes, somebody going to shoot up the mall or shoot up the school. I would hope that it would be a Trayvon Martin situation that would make people think, 'Wow. wrongful death, even though it's a legal gun owner. How do we move forward from this situation?' But so much of this issue, I think comes down to, 'Let's make sure law abiding white people have access to guns and make sure that black criminals are not,'" MSNBC's Toure said on "The Cycle" today.
"And we don't even want to talk about that sort of racial, black are at the bottom of it all, but that's definitely part of it," Toure added.