{"id":13964,"date":"2012-04-16T16:44:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T20:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13964"},"modified":"2012-04-16T16:27:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T20:27:01","slug":"bill-cosby-its-guns-not-race-in-trayvon-martin-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13964","title":{"rendered":"Bill Cosby: It\u2019s Guns, Not Race In Trayvon Martin Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Actor and comedian <strong>Bill Cosby<\/strong> says the debate over the killing of <strong>Trayvon Martin<\/strong> by a neighborhood watch volunteer should be focused on guns, not race.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on CNN\u2019s <em>\u201cState of the Union\u201d<\/em> aired Sunday, <strong>Cosby<\/strong> said calling <strong>George Zimmerman<\/strong> a racist doesn\u2019t solve anything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cosby<\/strong> says the bigger question is what <strong>Zimmerman<\/strong> was doing with a gun, and who taught him how to behave with it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Martin<\/strong>, 17, was shot in February. <strong>Cosby<\/strong> said during the interview, which was taped Thursday afternoon, that he once owned a gun but no longer does. He says there is a need to get guns off the streets, and that people should be taught to use every possible alternative before shooting someone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Actor and comedian Bill Cosby says the debate over the killing of Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer should be focused on guns, not race. In an interview on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d aired Sunday, Cosby said calling George Zimmerman a racist doesn\u2019t solve anything. Cosby says the bigger question is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}