Guns, murder, manslaughter and idiocy...

I used to listen to Michael Savage but his rants got to be a bit nonseniial. Mostly I hear about him from references from media and other talk shows. A classic was when the Anthony Weiner scandal broke last year, Michael Berry just started off with "Weinber, just change your name to Savage!"

Now I get this from a link on Hotair.com this morning as I"m recovering from the Independance Day party and it did catch my eye.

Michael Savage on George Zimmerman: ‘You have to find this man guilty’

On his show on Tuesday night, talk show host Michael Savage said that George Zimmerman, who is currently on trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin, should be found guilty of second-degree manslaughter based on two things: 1) The state of his firearm and 2) The language he allegedly used on a 911 call when he was first reporting his suspicions about Martin.

But first Savage explained why his insight should be valued over others in the media covering the trial...

Savage laid out his case, saying that the murder could have been avoided, but based on Zimmerman’s gun having a round in the chamber with the safety off, Zimmerman intended “to find some he could shoot or intimidate.”

“Zimmerman was carrying a Kel Tec semi-automatic 9mm handgun,” Savage said. “So? Big deal. It is a big deal because he had a bullet chambered in the gun and he had the safety off… Had he not chambered a round prior to meeting Trayvon, and had he not taken the safety off, even if Trayvon, during the altercation even if Trayvon had tried to grab the gun away from Zimmerman — had that gun not been chambered with a round and safety off, Trayvon Martin would have had to use two hands. You can’t do it with one hand.”

“Many of you don’t own guns,” Savage said. “He would have had to let go of Zimmerman. He would have had to stop punching him. He would have had to take both hands on the gun, hold the pistol grip with one, pull the top back to chamber a round and then he would have had to unlock the safety, during which time the mixed-martial-artist-in-training Mr. Zimmerman would have had time to throw him off and pound the hell out of him. But because Zimmerman carried a loaded weapon with the safety off, Trayvon Martin is dead. Therefore, the responsibility is in the hands of Zimmerman.

“I don’t care which side you are on,” Savage continued. “He wasn’t just carrying a gun, he wasn’t just a watch guy: He was hunting. He was looking, he was hoping to find someone he could shoot or intimidate with that loaded weapon, ladies and gentlemen of the Savage jury.”...

Many a cop looks at what is shown on TV and movies as normal law enforcement procedure (e.g. running with lights and sirens to everything, reading everyone their rights, etc) and laughs. One thing you see from time to time is how the cop, feeling sometime is up, pulls out his semi-automatic and racks the slide. Here are the problems there.

One, if you were jumped you will not have the time to pull out you pistol and charge it. You will be busy defending yourself.

Two, if you are close to a bad guy and they hear the noise of the pistol being racked, that tells them the good guy is nearby. And the good guy may not want that known.

Suffice to say Mike, there is no issue with the fact Zimmerman had his pistol locked and loaded. That is how cops carry it every day. BTY, that is the effective way a person with a revolver carries his pistol.

Mr Weiner, if I want such insightful stupidity I would tune into CNN, MSNBC or NPR. And it's wild hairs up the ass like this that turned me off from your show.