Melissa Harris-Perry   |  February 24, 2013

Marking a year since Trayvon Martin was shot

Melissa Harris-Perry marks the one year anniversary of the moment that sparked international outrage: when George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin.

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>>> one year ago, this coming tuesday, marks the day that sparked a national conversation about guns. no, it is not the anniversary of the day james holmes opened fire in aurora, colorado. nor a year out by the shooting by wade michael page in wisconsin and the horrors of sandy hook elementary school in connecticut where adam lanza gunned down 20 children and 16 childrens is fresh in our minds. those shootings captivated the country instantly when they happened. the shooting that took place a year ago tuesday was relatively unknown at first. a single death, not a planned massacre, but an altercation gone horribly wrong. it almost escaped national attention given police didn't make an arrest. one year ago this tuesday marked the day that george zimmerman shot and killed trayvon martin and one year later, we await his trial. we have made a point on this program of not litigating the case against zimmerman on television. we are going to leave it to the courts. by no means am i suggesting a link between trayvon, aurora, oak creek , sandy hook or pendleton or to the 2,200 plus people killed with a gun in this country since the massacre at sandy hook . certainly, an altercation between two individual that is ends in death is different from a shooting in a theater or a temple or school. it's different from city street violence, different from domestic violence . there is one thing. in each and every case, if the assailant has not had a gun, the victims could not have been