PDA

View Full Version : Bob Costas advocates for gun control in ‘Sunday Night Football’ halftime comments




squarepusher
12-03-2012, 05:28 PM
Bob Costas advocates for gun control in ‘Sunday Night Football’ halftime commentshttp://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0Tak_cRpa8E7wLmzm1xsOA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTQwO3E9ODU7dz00MA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/388/2012/06/02/01-expert-feat-posts-70x70-png_000323.png

By Jay Busbee (http://sports.yahoo.com/author/jay-busbee/) | Shutdown Corner (http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/) – 6 hours ago

In the wake of Saturday's horrifying tragedies at Kansas City, you knew the pundits would get their laptops rolling. The first wave involved the decision to play the game; some said it was a terrible idea (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--nfl-making-mistake-by-allowing-panthers-chiefs-game-to-go-on-as-scheduled-222206231.html), while others advocated it as a proper method of healing (http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1429357-nfl-and-kansas-city-made-difficult-but-right-decision-to-play-sundays-game). Once the game was in the books, talk turned to Bigger Issues, as in How Could This Happen? Concussions and head injuries will come under the microscope, as will the NFL's approaches to counseling depression. Sunday night, NBC commentator Bob Costas, echoing a column by Fox Sports' Jason Whitlock (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--nfl-making-mistake-by-allowing-panthers-chiefs-game-to-go-on-as-scheduled-222206231.html), took on another aspect of the tragedy: gun violence.

Costas quoted with approval from Whitlock's column, which states, in part:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uOi7If0zW9s
Our current gun culture simply 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.
In the coming days, Belcher's actions will be analyzed through the lens of concussions and head injuries. Who knows? Maybe brain damage triggered his violent overreaction to a fight with his girlfriend. What I believe is, if he didn't possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.
That is the message I wish Chiefs players, professional athletes and all of us would focus on Sunday and moving forward. 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.

Seraphim
12-03-2012, 05:47 PM
Gun control in America should be enforced on the DHS and the police. End of story.

VIDEODROME
12-03-2012, 05:50 PM
Could what Costas just said be applied to President Obama and his use of Drones and the Military?


They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.

Just to consider, powerful weapons can indeed make it easy to lash out. But when it comes to this, government officials are no better then the rest of us. So confiscating a gun from a football player and handing it to a TSA goon doesn't make me feel safer.

The belief in a maternal government to forcibly guide society this way is flawed.

CaptUSA
12-03-2012, 05:59 PM
and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.
Oh really???

If I wanted to start a confrontation, I might reconsider if the other guy was armed. It seems to me, that's one argument I would refrain from escalating.

VIDEODROME
12-03-2012, 06:08 PM
Would these deaths have occurred if Football was banned? I'm seeing the stories come in asking if these guys are becoming brain damaged and depressed.

alucard13mmfmj
12-03-2012, 06:33 PM
http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/153485/82943818.gif

torchbearer
12-03-2012, 06:35 PM
translation: "I want to use violence against my neighbor because he own a gun"

LibertyEagle
12-03-2012, 06:52 PM
Costas should stick to sports.

DerailingDaTrain
12-03-2012, 06:58 PM
If he had stabbed her death and then slit his wrists would he be advocating for knife control?

If he had beaten her to death and then jumped off a bridge should we cut off everyone's hands and get rid of bridges?

Epic fail Costas

juleswin
12-03-2012, 07:01 PM
Btw he was quoting Jason Withlock in his gun control rant. But dont get me started with the Withlock guy, he is a man than tries to infuse racial line in every sports story he writes about. When I want to read my sports, I want deals of the games and players not a racial commentary on America

papitosabe
12-03-2012, 08:11 PM
But dont get me started with the Withlock guy, he is a man than tries to infuse racial line in every sports story he writes about.

that guy is amazing. He'll look and create some racial bigotry in just about anything. I detest that guy.

Confederate
12-03-2012, 08:30 PM
The Judge weighs in:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwJXAqZsnpw

John F Kennedy III
12-03-2012, 08:46 PM
Costas should stick to sports.

He can't even do that right...

Dr.3D
12-03-2012, 08:58 PM
So by his logic, if the UN banned nuclear bombs, we wouldn't have to worry about one being used. A law will never keep stuff from happening. Those who are going to do something, will do it no matter what laws are in effect.

Heck, it's already against the law to kill people, but that hasn't stopped people from doing it.

aGameOfThrones
12-03-2012, 09:02 PM
In the wake of Saturday's horrifying tragedies at Kansas City, you knew the pundits would get their laptops rolling. The first wave involved the decision to play the game; some said it was a terrible idea, while others advocated it as a proper method of healing. Once the game was in the books, talk turned to Bigger Issues, as in How Could This Happen? Concussions and head injuries will come under the microscope, as will the NFL's approaches to counseling depression. Sunday night, NBC commentator Bob Costas, echoing a column by Fox Sports' Jason Whitlock, took on another aspect of the tragedy: gun violence.

Costas quoted with approval from Whitlock's column, which states, in part:



Our current gun culture simply 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.

In the coming days, Belcher's actions will be analyzed through the lens of concussions and head injuries. Who knows? Maybe brain damage triggered his violent overreaction to a fight with his girlfriend. What I believe is, if he didn't possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

That is the message I wish Chiefs players, professional athletes and all of us would focus on Sunday and moving forward. 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.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/bob-costas-advocates-gun-control-sunday-night-football-164208209--nfl.html

Hey Bob,

A man wielding a sharp-edged weapon killed one person in a Casper neighborhood Friday before killing a male teacher and himself in front of students (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?397217-Wyo.-murder-suicide-happened-during-class)

redmod79
12-03-2012, 09:07 PM
I always figured him for a punk.

tangent4ronpaul
12-03-2012, 09:28 PM
But teenage boys can't legally purchase or own handguns. What an idiot! :rolleyes:

-t

TCE
12-03-2012, 09:31 PM
But teenage boys can't legally purchase or own handguns. What an idiot! :rolleyes:

-t

Yep. They can't because of all of the government regulations that prevent minors from owning and buying guns. That is why no teenager will ever have access to a gun. Without the government to legislate and regulate these things, chaos would ensue. ;) In all seriousness, does he really think that if guns didn't exist, this guy wouldn't have found another way to commit a murder suicide?

paulbot24
12-03-2012, 09:36 PM
Costas really needs to do a source check before his soapbox tirades. The NRA is the new KKK? Does this mean that gun crimes will now hate crimes too?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2012/12/03/columnist-who-inspired-bob-costas-drops-new-bomb-nra-new-kkk

PursuePeace
12-03-2012, 09:36 PM
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.

How backwards can you be? Bob Costas, if that's the way you think, then perhaps YOU shouldn't own a handgun. Leave the rest of us alone.

RobHino
12-03-2012, 10:01 PM
When you think of NBC as the mouthpiece that protects the rest of GE's revenue pie, things make a little more sense. I made this graphic to try to help visually explain this: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=500418659992253&set=a.453511818016271.106841.452263888141064

AGRP
12-03-2012, 10:26 PM
Who cares?

kcchiefs6465
12-03-2012, 10:49 PM
Who cares?
NBC is a major network with probably a couple million people watching the game. They used a tragedy to try to push their (G.E.) agenda. I bet many people probably agreed with him because of the timing. As if this man wouldn't/couldn't have just as easily grabbed a knife and killed his girlfriend. It's not that I necessarily care what some football analyst has to say about gun control; it's more of the fact that he took that particular time and place to try to promote the banning of handguns.

AGRP
12-03-2012, 10:53 PM
NBC is a major network with probably a couple million people watching the game. They used a tragedy to try to push their (G.E.) agenda. I bet many people probably agreed with him because of the timing. As if this man wouldn't/couldn't have just as easily grabbed a knife and killed his girlfriend. It's not that I necessarily care what some football analyst has to say about gun control; it's more of the fact that he took that particular time and place to try to promote the banning of handguns.

True. Havent really been interested in sports for years thanks to my kids.

Anti Federalist
12-03-2012, 11:44 PM
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.

This is, of course, factually untrue.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5584ZjusUFI/TmVU6--Z0gI/AAAAAAAAAAg/CcJQYJc6nh0/s1600/violent-crime-rate-and-private-firearm-ownership-1981-2007.png

BSU kid
12-04-2012, 12:04 AM
What's worse is that Bob Costas was clearly reading a teleprompter...the network forced him to say this. He didn't do it alone, 100% the network was involved.

youngbuck
12-04-2012, 10:00 AM
What I believe is... And what I believe is you're a f'n idiot who doesn't know what he's talking about. Firearms have never exacerbated my flaws, and have never tempted me to escalate an argument. I had a guy try to fight me a few weeks ago. I was armed. I diffused the situation when, if my flaws were actually exacerbated and I was tempted to escalate like this douchebag claims, I could've shot the guy. I didn't. So STFU on subjects you don't know diddly squat about.

jmdrake
12-04-2012, 10:13 AM
.......and if O.J. Simpson hadn't owned a knife.......

Dr.3D
12-04-2012, 10:25 AM
.......and if O.J. Simpson hadn't owned a knife.......
He might have used a baseball bat.

VoluntaryAmerican
12-04-2012, 02:30 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOi7If0zW9s&feature=youtu.be


NEW YORK — Bob Costas’ ”Sunday Night Football” halftime commentary supporting gun control sparked a Fox News Channel debate Monday on whether NBC should fire him and a Twitter storm involving Ted Nugent, Rosie O’Donnell, Herman Cain and many more.

The NBC sportscaster, who frequently delivers commentary at halftime of the weekly NFL showcase, addressed the weekend’s murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher.

Costas said that the shooting has invoked the “mindless sports cliche” that “something like this really puts it all in perspective.”

“Please,” he said. “Those who need tragedies to continually recalibrate their sense of proportion about sports would seem to have little hope of ever truly achieving perspective.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/bob-costas-starts-a-gun-control-debate-with-halftime-commentary/2012/12/03/8509d37e-3d8f-11e2-8a5c-473797be602c_story.html

aGameOfThrones
12-04-2012, 02:37 PM
He might have used a baseball bat.

Or one of his movies.

Lucille
12-04-2012, 04:00 PM
http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/CostasandOJ.jpg

h/t http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/

Occam's Banana
12-04-2012, 04:30 PM
Costas said that the shooting has invoked the “mindless sports cliche” that “something like this really puts it all in perspective.”

“Please,” he said. “Those who need tragedies to continually recalibrate their sense of proportion about sports would seem to have little hope of ever truly achieving perspective.”

That's funny ... exactly the same can be said of those who affect to pontificate upon the shallowness of "mindless sports cliches" in circumstances such as this. Got hypocrisy, Mr. Costas?

MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2
12-04-2012, 04:50 PM
They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.


In my experience, not at all. I've avoided 4 road raging people in the last 2 years. I was de-escalating and avoiding them (and this was not easy every time.) Why? Because I had no idea what was going on with them. (maybe their mom died that morning... who knows?) I was de-escalating and avoiding because I had no intention of killing them over whatever the fuck was wrong with them. And I'm not a bad or discourteous driver, either. I believe it was more about me driving a jaguar (which I no longer have.) Could they have taken me in a fistfight? Who the fuck knows? They're lucky I escaped them in some manner or another, because we would have never known the answer to the fistfight question either way.

TheGrinch
12-04-2012, 05:30 PM
In Kennesaw, Georgia, all residents are actually required to have a firearm and ammo in their home. No one is cited for not owning one, but not surprisingly, the crime rates dropped to low levels almost immediately and have stayed there for decades.


http://rense.com/general9/gunlaw.htm (http://rense.com/general9/gunlaw.htm)


This is, of course, factually untrue.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5584ZjusUFI/TmVU6--Z0gI/AAAAAAAAAAg/CcJQYJc6nh0/s1600/violent-crime-rate-and-private-firearm-ownership-1981-2007.png

satchelmcqueen
12-04-2012, 07:37 PM
if he didnt have a gun they would both be alive the video says. i doubt it. knives, fists, bats...anything can kill if used for it.

Expatriate
12-04-2012, 07:49 PM
if he didnt have a gun they would both be alive the video says. i doubt it. knives, fists, bats...anything can kill if used for it.

Don't forget gasoline.

anaconda
12-04-2012, 08:34 PM
Surprise Surprise. A major mainstream network personality advocating the globalist agenda.

Kodaddy
12-04-2012, 08:53 PM
And if Kasandra Perkins had owned a firearm, two people (or at least one person) might still be alive today....

donnay
12-05-2012, 10:57 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=a5dBOR2V9nU

matt0611
12-05-2012, 11:22 AM
http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/CostasandOJ.jpg

h/t http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/

LOL :D that's priceless!

Lucille
12-05-2012, 11:24 AM
Bob Costas: The timing of my gun comments was a mistake, but…
hxxp://hotair.com/archives/2012/12/04/bob-costas-the-timing-of-my-gun-comments-was-a-mistake-but/

(Forgive me for linking to that horrid neo-Trot site but I was there to see if they had anything to say on the US Military's new policy on how killing children is fair game (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?397588-US-Military-Says-Killing-Afghan-Children-Is-Fair-Game), and I saw the Costas comments were a featured blog. Unsurprisingly, there is nothing on the USG targeting children.)

Cutlerzzz
12-05-2012, 04:06 PM
Bob Costas advocates for gun control in ‘Sunday Night Football’ halftime commentshttp://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0Tak_cRpa8E7wLmzm1xsOA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTQwO3E9ODU7dz00MA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/388/2012/06/02/01-expert-feat-posts-70x70-png_000323.png

By Jay Busbee (http://sports.yahoo.com/author/jay-busbee/) | Shutdown Corner (http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/) – 6 hours ago

In the wake of Saturday's horrifying tragedies at Kansas City, you knew the pundits would get their laptops rolling. The first wave involved the decision to play the game; some said it was a terrible idea (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--nfl-making-mistake-by-allowing-panthers-chiefs-game-to-go-on-as-scheduled-222206231.html), while others advocated it as a proper method of healing (http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1429357-nfl-and-kansas-city-made-difficult-but-right-decision-to-play-sundays-game). Once the game was in the books, talk turned to Bigger Issues, as in How Could This Happen? Concussions and head injuries will come under the microscope, as will the NFL's approaches to counseling depression. Sunday night, NBC commentator Bob Costas, echoing a column by Fox Sports' Jason Whitlock (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--nfl-making-mistake-by-allowing-panthers-chiefs-game-to-go-on-as-scheduled-222206231.html), took on another aspect of the tragedy: gun violence.

Costas quoted with approval from Whitlock's column, which states, in part:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uOi7If0zW9s
Our current gun culture simply 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.
In the coming days, Belcher's actions will be analyzed through the lens of concussions and head injuries. Who knows? Maybe brain damage triggered his violent overreaction to a fight with his girlfriend. What I believe is, if he didn't possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.
That is the message I wish Chiefs players, professional athletes and all of us would focus on Sunday and moving forward. 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.









A millionaire murderer who is planning on killing himself would definately be detered by the illegal ownership of a firearm charge.

VIDEODROME
12-05-2012, 04:12 PM
----

Dary
12-05-2012, 04:32 PM
Looks like Costas is gonna double down on Billo's show tonight.