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Smoking gun evidence?

“Smoking gun”, by the way, is a variation from the smoking pistol, which was the weapon used in a murder scene as described by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in Gloria Scott, part of The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes series:

“Then we rushed on into the captain’s cabin, but as we pushed open the door there was an explosion from within, and there he lay with his brains smeared over the chart of the Atlantic which was pinned upon the table, while the chaplain stood with a smoking pistol in his hand.”

There is a murder done and the chaplain holds the smoking pistol in his hand. In other words, he was caught red handed (as if red blood is still dripping from his hands).

In the old days, all guns used gun power which leaves a trail of smoke after each shot, hence the saying.

At any rate, it is perhaps difficult to prove that Zimmerman killed Martin out of racial motivations, but it is not difficult to understand why the black community took the verdict hard.

It is not difficult if you look back and revisit Rodney King, Rosa Parks, Ku Klux Klan and the lynching and so forth.

It is not difficult if you look at all the pain and misery put together the black people suffered at the hands of folks whose skins are of a white color.

It is not difficult if you look back at slavery itself.

It is not told that way but black slaves were actually the founding fathers of America, or at least co-founders. Without them, there would be no America today.