News from Duncan, Oklahoma, has shocked the nation. Three kids randomly shot and killed an Australian college baseball player, 22-year-old Christopher Lane, while he was on a morning jog.

It’s bad enough as it is. It’s slightly worse that some conservatives – who felt that issues of race and crime were warped and treated unjustly by the media during the recent murder trial of George Zimmerman – think this case offers a nice riposte, just because two of the three alleged perps appeared to be black.