The Trayvon Martin case: What planet is Glenn Garvin living on, anyway?
If you, like me, watch news broadcasts, read newsmagazines and/or newspapers or surf the Web for up-to-date reporting and different viewpoints on the issues of the day, you probably have noticed that everyone has an opinion on those issues, especially "hot button" stories such as the Trayvon Martin tragedy which took place in February of 2012. Trayvon Martin, as you may well be aware (unless you have been stranded on a desert island with no links to the outside world), was a 17-year-old Miami-Dade County resident who, while on a 10-day suspension from his high school, was spending some "away from all the bad influences" time with his father in Sanford (a small town near Orlando), where the elder Martin's girlfriend owns a house in a gated community. Though the details are still murky and under investigation by several law enforcement agencies, Trayvon Martin left that house during a basketball game and walked several blocks to a nearby convenience store to ...