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Title: NBC's Bob Costas Goes On Gun Control Rant About NFL Player's Murder-Suicide
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URL Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi ... fl_players_murder-suicide.html
Published: Dec 3, 2012
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Post Date: 2012-12-03 12:26:30 by farmfriend
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Bob Costas, discussing the murder-suicide of NFL's Jovan Belcher, went on a gun rant during halftime of NBC's Sunday Night Football. Transcript of his remarks below. "Our current gun culture,"Whitlock wrote, "ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead." "Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it. In the coming days, Jovan Belcher’s actions, and their possible connection to football will be analyzed. Who knows?" "But here," wrote Jason Whitlock," is what I believe. If Jovan Belcher didn’t possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today." video at link NBC's Bob Costas Goes On Gun Control Rant About NFL Player's Murder-Suicide
BOB COSTAS: Well, you knew it was coming. In the aftermath of the nearly unfathomable events in Kansas City, that most mindless of sports clichés was heard yet again: Something like this really puts it all in perspective. Well, if so, that sort of perspective has a very short shelf-life since we will inevitably hear about the perspective we have supposedly again regained the next time ugly reality intrudes upon our games. Please, those who need tragedies to continually recalibrate their sense of proportion about sports would seem to have little hope of ever truly achieving perspective. You want some actual perspective on this? Well, a bit of it comes from the Kansas City-based writer Jason Whitlock with whom I do not always agree, but who today said it so well that we may as well just quote or paraphrase from the end of his article.
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#1. To: farmfriend (#0)
Well come and take them Bob. 60+ million of us will be waiting. "But here," wrote Jason Whitlock," is what I believe. If Jovan Belcher didn’t possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today." Really? Tell that to the kid in Colorado who recently shot his dad in the head with an arrow and killed his dad's girlfriend and himself with a knife. Calling Ron Paul an isolationist is like calling your neighbor a hermit because he doesn't come over and break your window - unknown I WITHDRAW MY CONSENT! He was an excellent student. What! From Wiki: Sadly, he slept thru the "Don't shoot your kids mother" chapter resulting in the loss of .15 points off his GPA. “Anti-semitism is a disease–you catch it from Jews”–Edgar J. Steele “The jew cries out in pain, as he strikes you.”–Polish proverb “I would like to express my heartfelt apologies for the unfortunate and tasteless quotes I published in my tag lines. I am very sorry and ashamed. I never wanted to offend anyone, or to encroach human rights."- Hmmmmm
It's easy for these freaks to rant about gun control. Come and get them, Bob, if you dare. He will not. I'm sure he would rather the U.N. does his dirty work for him. That is what Obummer wants. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken Coming from NBC and the NFL, combined, I'm not surprised that Bob Costas was given a platform to spew his communist vomit. I'm glad I gave up football decades ago, my mind doesn't need the filth and trash that is part and parcel of that phony sport.
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#2. To: farmfriend (#0)
Belcher, who was a strong student in high school and college, graduated from Maine with a degree in child development and family relations.
#3. To: farmfriend (#0)
Bob Costas Goes On Gun Control Rant
#4. To: BTP Holdings (#3)
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#5. To: farmfriend (#0)
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#6. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#1)
I watched the movie Braveheart again this weekend. Good thing for the english that those Scotsmen didn't have any firearms. Tell that to the kid in Colorado who recently shot his dad in the head with an arrow and killed his dad's girlfriend and himself with a knife.
the quality of a man’s life is directly proportionate to
his commitment to excellence.’
#7. To: Lod (#4) (Edited)
Yes sir. When the obama hits the fan, I sure wouldn't want to be without one. buckwheat - the greatest guns & ammo salesman, ever!
the quality of a man’s life is directly proportionate to
his commitment to excellence.’
#8. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#1)
Montana averages 24 per household. Well come and take them Bob. 60+ million of us will be waiting.
Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?
#9. To: Lod (#4)
sales have been through the roof. buckwheat - the greatest guns & ammo salesman, ever!
Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?
#10. To: X-15 (#5)
I still watch the superbowl. I'm glad I gave up football decades ago
Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?
#11. To: farmfriend (#0)
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#12. To: farmfriend (#10)
I still watch the superbowl. Is that the one where they throw the ball or bounce it? I'm glad I gave up football decades ago
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#13. To: wakeup (#12)
LOL It is the one with the diamond rings. Is that the one where they throw the ball or bounce it?
Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?
#14. To: farmfriend (#0)
Chris Benoit did it with his bare hands, Maybe hands should be outlawed Bob.....ugh.
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#15. To: titorite (#14)
Man has found ways of killing each other since Cain and Able. Maybe hands should be outlawed Bob.....ugh.
Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?
#16. To: farmfriend (#0)
Sponge Bob says "Shoot Costas on sight, he's got rabies" ! NBC's Bob Costas Goes On Gun Control Rant About NFL Player's Murder-Suicide
Treason has conspired with Greed and Murder in "OUR" country. I will not be an accomplice !
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#17. To: noone222 (#16)
now that is funny!
Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?
#18. To: X-15 (#5)
I knew a kid that played High School football in Illinois. He was a linebacker. He sacked the QB three times. On the fourth time the QB was screaming, "NO!" ROTFLOL! I gave up football decades ago
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#19. To: noone222 (#16)
I like that, "Armageddon Sponge Bob"! LOL
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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