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"Guns don't kill people, Skittles do!" - according to Doug Burns on Fox News

Apparently, on Fox News' live video stream, host Jamie Colby engaged in the following back-and-forth with former federal prosecutor Doug Burns:

Colby: "I know that George Zimmerman's attorney will prove that he has no criminal background, he's not an aggressive guy. That he's a gentle kind caring soul who was minding the neighborhood, the police didn't get there quick enough and he had reason to pursue, even though he was told not to. He was just doing his Good Samaritan job."

Burns: "If I'm getting beaten up in an ordinary fist fight that's going to leave me - here's the counterargument - with a broken nose and some cuts and certainly no life-threatening injuries. Broken nose, we'll assume just hypothetically is not a life-threatening injury. Then so runs the argument, you can't turn around and kill the person. The counterargument is, 'Well, wait a minute, you can die in a fistfight. There's certainly a very good argument to be made that the force used was out of proportion to what was going on, and the kid was unarmed. We didn't even discuss that. Totally different case, let's say the kid had a gun."

Colby: "Which he didn't know. All that Trayvon - we learned later - was armed with a bag of Skittles and an iced tea."

Burns: "I know everybody keeps sarcastically saying about the Skittles. You could probably kill somebody with Skittles..."

First off, the way Ms. Colby speaks about Zimmerman initially makes me seriously wonder if she has a poster of him above her bed which she stares at all night before having some quality alone time and going to sleep.

Secondly, Mr. Burns may want to lay off the Jolt-Cola (do they even make that stuff anymore?), especially before being interviewed on live television or a video stream.

Lastly, I wonder what Mr. Burns envisioned in that ole noggin of his as he was uttering the words, "You could probably kill somebody with Skittles." 

Here are a list of the images Mr. Burns was possibly envisioning when making the unsubstantiated claim about killer Skittles:

- Loading an assault rifle with cherry Skittles and taking fire upon George Zimmerman (tagline - "Feel the Rainbow...of Death!")

- Forming the circular Skittles into triangles, where all three points would be as sharp as the most vicious blades in the history of the world (ad - "And you thought machetes were badas*!Well, machetes ain't got nothing on these bad boys! Introducing Maskittles - when some purple, green, orange, yellow, and red leaves you a whole lotta dead!" - yes, this would be a Wal-Mart commercial)

- Shoving the bag of Skittles down Zimmerman's throat and hoping he's diabetic

Yeah, according to Fox News, guns aren't deadly weapons. However, it's perfectly acceptable to shoot and kill a person in self-defense when they're holding a bag of Skittles, because they apparently are.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/10/fox-news-guest-suggests-trayvon-was-armed-you-could-kill-somebody-with-iced-tea/

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