MARIETTA, Ga. -- “He’s capitalizing, really financially capitalizing, on the death of someone he was accountable for and responsible for murdering,” Lucia McBath said.
Her son was killed over loud music with the gunman claiming self-defense.
Now this Marietta mom is blasting George Zimmerman for auctioning the gun that killed Trayvon Martin as bids for the weapon skyrocket to $65 million dollars.
Pure disdain and disgust – McBath said it was like a punch in the gut.
“I’m almost speechless because I was so angry and so hurt that he was able to continue to dig that wound,” she said. “Continue to dig into the wound of the Trayvon Martin family.
McBath said she felt like she had to write an editorial for the New York Daily News to call George Zimmerman out.
“The fact that he would be willing to say, this is my right to do this and that this is a piece of history?” she asked.
She said the auction undercuts his claim of self-defense.
“If you believe, if you truly believe, that you were trying to defend yourself and you believe that you were justified – whether you believe you were justified or not – you took a life,” McBath said.
She has campaigned tirelessly to revise gun laws since her own son, Jordan Davis, was shot to death by a man over loud music in Jacksonville, Fla. in 2012.
“It’s as if he’s throwing it in the face of the nation and saying, ‘Haha, the law supports me, the law allows me to do this’,” she said.
She says she can’t imagine the horror Sabrina Fulton, Martin’s mother, must feel.
But she’s standing shoulder-to-shoulder with her and against gun violence.
“We don’t have a choice, we have to stand, we have to bear it,” she said. “We have to carry the mantle, but we don’t accept what’s happening in the country and that’s why we will continue to speak out.”
