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Bill Cosby: It’s guns, not race in Trayvon Martin case

April 15, 2012 10:26PM



FILE - In this April 6, 2011 file photo, Bill Cosby speaks at the National Action Network*s Keepers of the Dream Awards Gala in New York. 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's "State of the Union" aired Sunday, April 15, 2012, Cosby said calling George Zimmerman a racist doesn't solve anything. Cosby says the bigger question is what Zimmerman was doing with a gun, and who taught him how to behave with it. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)



Updated: April 16, 2012 11:19AM


WASHINGTON — 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’s “State of the Union” aired Sunday, Cosby said calling George Zimmerman a racist doesn’t solve anything. Cosby says the bigger question is what Zimmerman was doing with a gun, and who taught him how to behave with it.


Martin, 17, was shot in February. Cosby 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.


AP