Cosby: Trayvon Martin case about guns

Actor and comedian Bill Cosby said Sunday that 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, Cosby said calling George Zimmerman a racist doesn’t solve anything. Cosby said the bigger question is what Zimmerman was doing with a gun, and who taught him how to behave with it.

The shooting of the 17-year-old Trayvon on Feb. 26 has ignited a nationwide debate about race and self-defense.

Cosby said during the interview that he once owned a gun but no longer does. Cosby’s only son, Ennis, 27, was shot to death in 1997 while changing a flat tire along a Los Angeles freeway. Mikhail Markhasev was convicted of first-degree murder and attempted robbery in his death in 1998 and is serving a life sentence without parole.