Gun Crazy
By now we’ve all seen NBC’s Bob Costas (not to be confused with my friend and NRO colleague, Bob Costa) pontificating in his smug lefty way in reaction to the murder/suicide of a Kansas City Chiefs football player and his girlfriend. Costas used as the basis of his remarks this column from Jason Whitlock, which included this passage:
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.
It’s easy to spot the flaw in this logic. Whitlock is confusing firearm availability with increased violence (when in fact the exact opposite is true), and if he needs to consult someone on domestic double murder without a gun, he need to look no farther than this guy:
If the glove don’t fit… you still might be guilty
He also makes the common liberal mistake of ascribing temptation to an inanimate object; my lefty friends are always telling me they would never have a gun in their homes because they couldn’t trust themselves around it. That surely says more about them than about a Colt M1911, and if that’s the way they feel, I wouldn’t want them to have easy access to firearms, either.
Whitlock’s larger point — which I agree with completely — is that football occupies entirely too much of the American landscape. Personally, I think spending even a minute watching pro football on television is a complete waste of time and I sincerely wish I had back all those misspent hours watching — and, worse, caring about — football. Among other things, I might have been spared this agony:
So it’s too bad Whitlock had to double down on dumb in this conversation with CNN’s Roland Martin:
You know, I did not go as far as I’d like to go because my thoughts on the NRA and America’s gun culture — I believe the NRA is the new KKK. And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people who obviously don’t have our best interests [at heart].
I think it’s obvious if you’ve traveled abroad, and traveled to countries where they have legitimate gun laws, that we don’t have to have what we have in America, where people somehow think a gun enhances their liberty, and that people somehow think a gun makes them safer. It just doesn’t. A gun turns some kids listening to music into a murder scene. And uh, you know, if you don’t have a gun, you drive home. You know, kids listening to some loud music, you don’t like it, you go home and complain to your wife. But when you have a gun, you open fire, potentially, and take the life of a child.
The NRA is hardly “arming black youths” or pushing drugs in the black community, and Whitlock needs to distinguish between the pathologies of the underclass — white and black — in which arguments over trivial things all too often turn deadly, and the morality of the vast majority of citizens , whose first instinct is not to reach for a gun, even if they’re carrying one. (Link is to the Democratic Underground website, so be sure to enjoy the krazy komments after the chart.)
The NFL needs Bob Costas like Bob Costas needs a hole in the head.
Speaking of Bob’s head, I believe he needs a new ‘rug’. At least try to match his hairpiece to his sideburns!
Bobby played football one time in Middle School. He quit the team though. He objected to being kicked for field goals.
He went on to have a bit part in the Wizard of Oz movie as the Mayor’s Assistant.
Well, then the NFL needs Costas very, very badly. Urgently! First priority! The author makes a mistake in conflating the white and black underclasses. Like every other possible classification, blacks and whites are different. Any black at random is 10 times more likely to be a convicted criminal than a white. Any black at random is 30-50 times more likely to commit a black-on-white crime than a random white is likely to commit a white-on-black crime. Many blacks are psychopaths. It looks like most black football players are. But again, even white and black psychopaths are different. With an average IQ of 85, blacks are under-performing psychopaths — acting out in directly violent ways against other people, while whites, with average IQs around 102, tend to commit white-collar crimes, confidence games, or to be cruelly manipulative in their relationships. Psychopaths are always trouble, but IQ is a crucial variable.
I think Bob Costas already has a hole in the head.
Costas should be gone. Hank Williams got fired for less.
Yep.. his pie hole. And it badly needs to be regulated. More so than the guns about which he blathers.
If the Bad Guys would merely make an appointment, rather than just show up at random, then I’d not need to carry always and everywhere. I’d rather not, actually. But I’d rather tip the odds in my favour a tad, if I can. in case of an “incident”. If they’d only make appointments, life would be so much easier.
Those who are against the 2nd Amendment are also against the core tenets of a Constitutional Republic. They mostly understand that a disarmed public is a subdued one.
And only leftist radicals will conflate insane killings with the legal, Constitutional right to bear arms. And few don’t realize that thugs and crazies will always have guns, but they would rather that upstanding citizens be left without protection!
Why is this?
Well, if one follows rules for radicals, surely Costas’s rant makes perfect sense. And the leftist media are more than pleased to do the bidding of the radicals in charge.
Alas, if one gives up the right to bear arms, one is also at the mercy of the thugs in charge – both in Washington and via their surrogates.
So, welcome to Obama’s brave new world – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/09/barack-hussein-obamas-brave-new-world-second-amendment-pro-life-supporters-bear-watchinglabeling-islamists-not-so-much-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/…if they get away with their plans!
You hit the nail on the head. The people ragging on the 2nd Amendment are opposed to the Constitution in general, because in their minds, Mao, Marx, Lenin, and Stalin had it right.
In a nation of 300+ Million there are going to be people who wig out; some use cars, knives, bows and arrows, bombs, but the tool of choice is a firearm.
It is irksome to hear commentators bemoan the ease in acquiring guns and advocate that the Federal Governmnet, Levithan, should make it more difficult to acquire them. Sane people don’t want Leviathan to do more, they want Leviathan to do less.
Of course, we live in a country that is “may issue”, not “shall issue”. But the US doesn’t have a whole bunch of young boys and girls carrying around military weapons everywhere (draftees issued weapons, and on leave) – true, they aren’t allowed to use them, but it’s still a heck of a deterrent, IMHO.
mzk1:
You might want to ask Adina Kutnicki how easy it is to get a legal handgun in Israel. You might be surprised.
My information on this goes back to the late eighties… but in those days, if a private citizen wanted to buy a handgun, they needed to (a) get the appropriate documents from the Ministry of the Interior, (b) get checked out thoroughly by the police, (c) visit a gun store and PAY FOR a gun — but not take possession of it!, (d) present the receipt to the police, (e) wait a few months, and, if you’re lucky, (f) receive written permission to carry THAT GUN and no other.
In short, Israel has stricter gun control than just about anywhere in the United States.
(Do a lot of Israelis carry guns? Absolutely. Part of that deals with certain loopholes — for example, anyone who has served in the military and signed on for an additional year can get a gun license easily. Another aspect is that Israelis are willing to jump through the hoops, because they know all too well that a handgun at the right time can make the difference between living and dying.)
Adina, please do jump in and update my info as appropriate.
That description pretty much applies to the situation in the late 70′s also.
Lets not forget limits on the amount of ammo you could have on hand. My memory is rusty here but I seem to recall 100 rounds of .45 ACP.
If Mr. Whitlock is so astute with his reasoning, then I can’t wait to get my White Hood with embroidered NRA logo…../Sarc Off. What a sanctimonious blowhard.
Mr Whitlock evidently has concrete evidence that the NRA is leaving handguns, ammo, and drugs on every street corner in the ghetto. A vast right wing conspiracy indeed!
He’s channeling crazy anti-semites.
How did Pat Buchanan get into this discussion???
More on Belcher:http://patdollard.com/2012/12/man-claim-family-brutalized-destroyed-by-monster-jovan-belcher-not-his-gun-years-ago-seeks-to-piss-on-his-grave/
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/nightmare_on_subway_tracks_GgvCtkeJj6cTeyxHns2VNP
No guns involved as an aggressive black panhandler murdered a guy who tried to interrupt his extortion racket. Then again, the President would probably claim it was his son and invite him to the White House if the NY city or transit police were accidentally close enough to protect people from stuff like this…
If there had been no subways, we wouldn’t have this problem. If we would just get rid of the subways, we could reduce the number of assaults, robberies and murders!
…they would never have a gun in their homes because they couldn’t trust themselves around it.
Good call. I don’t trust them around one either.
As “Dirty Harry” (Clint Eastwood)said: “A man’s got to know his limitations”.
There are people who understand they cannot trust themselves to use their 2nd Amendment rights in a responsible manner. That is fine for them, but attempting to force their inadequacies onto the millions of law-abiding citizens cannot, and should not, be tolerated.
Well, in that case, I don’t trust them around babies, children, puppies, kittens, or anyone or anything else that sane people feel obligated to protect.
Nor do I trust them around motor vehicles, high buildings, bodies of water, kitchen implements, household cleaning products, gas stoves, electric appliances, medications, baseball bats, tire irons, hammers, pipe wrenches, sticks and stones, or anything else they don’t let you take on a passenger aircraft (or have in the violent ward of a mental institution).
If somebody has no self control then it’s their own responsibility to get ahold of themselves, without delay, before they get themselves into some real trouble. It is not the responsibility of the government to imprison the rest of us who are responsible adults into what feels like a day care center for adults, or perhaps an insane ward, just because a few liberal idiots should not be running around loose.
“And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs….”
This is the sort of thing crazy people say about Jews. Is the NRA now Jewish? Is the original Red Dawn the new “Gentleman’s Agreement”?
Bob Costas’ expertise lies in explaining the nuances of men in funny clothes running up and down a field chasing a ball. He should stick with that.
That makes for a pretty sad epitaph.
Bob Costas can go to hell.
Frankly, he’s not very good at that either. The man puts the “blow” in “blowhard”. Whenever I see him onscreen I know its either time to get up and get another beer or get up and get rid of one…
The error that has become ubiquitous in our society is called, in logic courses, false authority. Thus far, there have been three articles in PJM on Bob Costas’ thoughts on gun control. He has created a storm in the media on this topic. Why does anyone care what he thinks about gun control? Do you care what he thinks about quantum physics? The latest techniques on brain surgery? Does he have the solution to war?
Bob Costas is a good looking, glib, sports addict. I know of nothing he has ever done to even consider his views on gun control. I have read, and recommend, Judge Scalia’s lengthy treatise on the subject, a brilliant analyses that traces this topic back to match lock weapons. When Costas expounds, on any thing, I recommend a bathroom break.
I well remember a Congressional hearing on energy policy, my expertise, in which a buxom actress in a very low cut dress testified on a complex technical issue. She had infinitely more influence on our national laws than a thousand Professional Engineers.
The reason our nation suffers so much is that ignorant people control the national dialog. It is obvious on every channel.
This is exactly right. The vast majority of politicians at our national level are lawyers by training and either former attorneys or career politicians. Obama is the epitome of this, what does he know about medicine, or energy, or anything else he seeks to make the federal government ever more involved in? How many doctors helped write or voted on Obamacare? And not only are they ignorant, many are willingly ignorant. If a highly competent engineer gives a presentation on why corn based ethanol for fuel is horrible, they don’t care because their real concern is bringing home the bacon. If 100 doctors testify on how Obamacare will lower the quality of medicine by driving out essential specialists, Dems don’t care because their only real goal is bringing us one step closer to socialized medicine.
Here’s the most glaring example of all; when a moderator points out to Obama that in multiple instances lowering the capital gains rate has actually increased revenue, Obama just ignores that part and repeats his dogma on “fairness”. He doesn’t care about the practical results, only what is pleasing to his ideology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3qfjklyfD8
This is why the liberal’s “reality based community” should in actually be called the “community based reality”
What? No diatribe about a passtime that glorifies violence contributing to violence in our society?????
Thet’s “pasttime”, not “passtime”.
“Passtime” is when the front line has folded and the tackles are closing fast.
Actually, it’s neither. It’s “pastime…” Also, “that,” not “thet.” OK?
This is old news, Costas is nothing more than a liberal shill spouting the same pablum that all liberals “spout”. There are so many examples of creative ways to commit a murder/suicide, his simplistic “if there were no guns, this wouldn’t have happened” scenario is a dud. Unfortunately, his simplistic thinking seems to dominate the liberal thought processes hence we must continue the good fight to save our constitutional rights.
I live in the People’s Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where gun ownership is strictly regulated. One of our neighbors is the State of Vermont, which has some of the most lenient gun laws in the country. Vermont’s murder rate is less than half of that of Massachusetts.
I love listening to lefties sputter and temporize when trying to explain it.
The difference between MA and VT is what it always is — race. Eric Holder was 100% correct when he said Americans were cowards when it comes to talking about race. We ought to change the name of the Mississippi River to De Nile.
You are a total @ss. Crawl back in your hole, you dimbulb.
You can get high without using heroin. So let’s legalize heroin.
Retired coach Tony Dungy (whose own son tragically committed suicide by hanging) noted that fully 3/4 of his players owned guns. The FBI and NFL security held detailed seminars on the rules of gun possession vis-a-vis team/league property, travel restrictions, etc.
I doubt that all those NFLPA gun owners were NRA members – for all we know they opposed the NRA for the same paranoid, nonsensical reasons as Jason Whitlock, especially considering the percentage of black players in the NFL. But they still owned guns because they valued their lives and the lives of their families.
Actually, a little gratitude wouldn’t go amiss, since the NRA has been fighting against infringement since before these players were born.
If 3/4 of NFLers have guns then that would be way above the national average. Yet, you don’t hear of this type of crime among them very often. I think these pundits don’t know so much.
I would be willing to bet that the average NFL player would be much more likely
to commit a crime (with or without a gun) than the average NRA member…
Whitlock’s larger point — which I agree with completely — is that football occupies entirely too much of the American landscape. Personally, I think spending even a minute watching pro football on television is a complete waste of time and I sincerely wish I had back all those misspent hours watching — and, worse, caring about — football.
You can put a marker down on this — if NBC ever loses the NFL contract, and with Notre Dame football as their only college property, NBC will suddenly discover other causes for violence in football players, such as concussions and their after-effects. Costas not only spouted liberal boilerplate at halftime, it was liberal boilerplate that was designed not to get NBC execs an angry phone call from Roger Goodell the next morning about using the halftime segment to trash their sport (though given the negative reaction — even The New York Times’ NFL blog questioned whether that was the place for political commentary — NBC may have gotten a call or email from Roger anyway, or Roger may have gotten some from his owners on not letting pompous announcers alienate well over 50 percent of the potential viewing audience).
“Whitlock’s larger point — which I agree with completely — is that football occupies entirely too much of the American landscape.”
Then I suggest Mr. Whitlock find employment elsewhere, rather than making a living pontificating in large part on a sport that shaves a decade off of the lives of its participants. Mr. Costas as well.
Wasn’t the weapon used in the Nicole/Ron Brown case a knife? Shouldn’t Costas be calling for a ban on knives? I mean, really, we know that forks & spoons cause obesity, SUVs cause wrecks, and guns & knives cause violence . . . so where’s the logic in Costas not calling for a ban on knives?
“Handguns do not enhance our safety.”
I respectfully disagree, Mr. Costas. My safety (and my family’s) is enhanced every time I carry one, along with the safety of everyone when our police & military do likewise.
Perhaps someone should give Mr. Costas a subscription to the American Rifleman where he can learn something from the “Armed Citizen” column, namely, to get a “clue”.
“You know, I did not go as far as I’d like to go because my thoughts on the NRA and America’s gun culture — I believe the NRA is the new KKK.”
Hey, that reminds me. I need to renew my NRA membership, and along with it my subscription to American Rifleman. Thanks, Mr. Whitlock!
Belcher was 6’2″, 225 pounds. I haven’t seen any pictures of his girlfriend, but in general if a 6’2″ 225-pounder wants a woman dead, I hate to say it but he doesn’t need a gun.
Not the case if SHE has a gun, or might have one, on her person or readily available. That’s why they called Sam Colt’s revolver the “equalizer.”
The purpose of a handgun is to deter aggression.
People will keep killing people regardless of whether or not they have guns. And this hatred people have within themselves goes back thousands of years and there is precious little we can do about it. Like I saw somebody write down on another blog, “Did Cain kill Abel with a handgun?” O.J. Simpson had no problems killing his wife and another man without a handgun. Perhaps Americans should start looking at the motives these people had in committing the crime rather than the tool that was used to commit the crime. After all, after O.J.’s wife was stabbed to death, was there any outcry to start banning knives?
Nicole Simpson was no match for her large, muscular husband O.J. Had she had a handgun, she might well have been able to defend herself, and she might be alive today.
(Of course, he was world-famous, and she was not — meaning he’d likely have gotten her arrested for attempted murder or something. It’s hard to win a fight against a celebrity.)
Not if he’s dead.
Once upon a time networks would super during an editorial like crazy Costas’,
“This doesn’t necessarily reflect the views of NBC-TV or the National Football League.”
Since Herr Obama was re-elected for a second term, folks, those days are over.
Hitler with big ears is now running your country.
You got that right.
Oh, and by the way, I recently took a look at the four boxes of freedom: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo.
Obama has control of the soapbox (the mainstream media) and the ballot box (massive vote fraud). He’s corrupted the judicial system and is in a position to appoint enough commie judges to put a stranglehold on us from now on. There’s only one box left, and it had better not be empty.
Now comeon.
How is tyranny ever going to be fully enacted when 300 million firearms are in private hands. Why, even Bob Costas has to watch what he says if he is actually standing in the presence of an independent American.
And btw, wouldn’t it be interesting to know the racial breakdown of the NRA. Who wants to bet what the percentage of blacks is, or Hispanics for the matter. And wouldn’t it be fascinating to see a graph of murder rates vs NRA membership? I’ll speculate. Less than 2% of the membership of the NRA is black and less than 5% Hispanic. And the murder rate for NRA members is probably 1/20th of the murder rate in inner cities (maybe less than 1/50th).
SUICIDE, can we all agree that what happened Saturday happens all across our great nation on a daily basis? Sometimes the suicider takes a family member or loved one with them. I wonder how many other people killed themselves on Saturday with guns, ropes, pills, and long jumps? Holidays, alcohol, drugs, and depression among other things are often a contributing factor. This story is big news because, although it was a tragedy, it happened to someone the sports world had built up as a Mr. Big. The families that lived through this face a lifetime of pain and questions with no good answers. This is NOT a gun issue, regardless of ignorant comments by people who have an audience.
The MSM is not noted for their mental prowess or as pillars of the community. Their bias behavior makes them untrustworthy for those in the search for facts and truth. The sports broadcasters also fit into this group due to their lack of objectivity and willingness to spout the liberal claptrap of their employers. The best bet is to listen to these clowns with a deaf ear, and you will not be disappointed.
Do guns kill people?
Do pencils misspell words?
I told my precious Bobby to never play with guns or hair dye. He was always sickly and quit nursing when he was 47.
Bobby is only 4’2″ you know. I got into a fight with him once and the damned midget bit me.
Since we here at NBC were successful in snowing the voters in November’s election, we thought we would try it one more time. Who better to serve our agenda other than Bobby Costas, one of the most trusted and honorable of all the Lollypop Guild, the Lollypop Guild, the Lollypop Guild.
I, personally hate Bobby. He is only three feet tall. I got into a fight with him once and he bit me.
Costas is a member of that select class of professionals that we call “the Press.” This professional claque is the same one that sat silent while Michael Jackson withered away before their eyes. This same echelon saw it fit to banish Bob Packwood (R-OR) from the Senate for chasing interns, but played defense for the greasy Arkansas pol, Bill Clinton, when he occupied the White House. And it was Costas’ associates in media who deemed themselves competent to medi-ate Sarah Palin’s accomplishments and persona to our Republic’s citizens.
In short, Costas is just one crowing blackbird in that raucous murder of crows that perches in rows on the powerlines that run over the American home. Why anyone listens to a thing his mob of bedraggled Corvis has to say is a complete mystery to me.
It’s come to this. From a column by Lincoln Brown at Townhall.com Finance:
“With that in mind it is interesting to note the news that broke yesterday that Bank of America has decided to end its relationship with McMillan Group International.
The reason?
Apparently the bank has severed the ties because McMillan is involved in the manufacture of guns and accessories.“
So all real Americans should sever their ties with the Bank of Italy, or, as they are now known, the Bank of America.
And tell them why.
Better to ban a sport that causes concussions than to render the people incapable of deterring and stopping robberies.
At least, if he was being honest, Costas would admit having a better argument for banning football than banning guns.
He claimed that guns don’t protect you. Here’s proof they do:
http://columbia.wistv.com/news/crime/54379-deputies-store-clerk-fears-her-life-shoots-robbery-suspect
She would not have been able to defeat the robbers without a gun — even in the unlikely event that the laws had kept the robbers from having guns.
The elephant in the room that the media will never discuss IS THE MEDIA in all it’s forms. Were it not for the promotion of wanton violence with or without guns, and misogynistic devolving values on TV, in movies, music, and video games, we would not have what we are now experiencing in US culture. The only thing that has changed over the years is what the media promotes, the guns have been around since they were invented. So Costas and the rest of the mega hypocrites should look in the mirror where they will see those responsible for the degradation of our once great land, and all that just to make buck. The greatest concentration of evil lies within the media in all its forms.
Costas’ remarks are preposterous and have no basis in fact or logic, but then Liberal arguements rarely do.
The issue is not whether Costas and NBC have a right to make political statements during football halftime breaks. If they want to do so, it is their “unalienable right”, one I have personally defended in two major wars.. On the other hand, do NBC & Costas and FOX News’ Bill Hemmer & Martha McCallum really expect us to believe that a 260 pound linebacker can’t kill a 100 pound woman, or himself for that matter, with something other than a gun? How ’bout his bare hands? Give me a break!
I will be interested, however, to see what NBC’s sponsors have to say about 85 million “P.O.ed” gun owners, who quit watching NBC Sports.
Costas would be well advised to stick to his knitting or football; anything but politics.
One last point; I am sick and tired of the media bombarding me with anti-gun propaganda on virtually every type of programming. We get it on talk shows, news, movies, regular programming, documentaries, cartoons, kids’ shows, everywhere and now during halftime commercials during football games.
There are 85 million legitimate gun owners in this nation, who own, on average, three guns each. There are easily 300 million legally owned guns in this country. Think about it. Nearly half the adult population owns guns. Only a tiny decumal fraction of those people commit crimes with guns. In deed, if one eliminates the mentally ill and criminals from that decimal fraction, who are already statutorily forbidden to own guns, the number of gun crime purpetrators drops mathamatically to next to nothing.
Far more importantly however, it is the damage to all of our basic freedoms that I fear the most. The Bill of Rights is a partial list of our basic individual freedoms, upon which the government is absolutely forbidden to infringe. In deed, the Bill of Rights was as an absolute condition to the ratification of the Constitution and the 2nd Amendment puts teeth in the other nine of those rights and government prohibitions.
As goes the 2nd Amendment, so goes the entire Bill of Rights and the Constitution.
“An unarmed society is an enslaved society” Thomas Jefferson.
V/r,
Mike Steele
Midway, Georgia
“An unarmed society is an enslaved society” Thomas Jefferson
Except that Jefferson said no such thing. He might have tweeted, but he never uttered or wrote those phrases.
Seriously people, I am as much a Jefferson fan as the next guy, but let’s not go attributing sentiments to him that he never expressed, especially when he did so much more eloquently in his verified writings.
Why do individual law-abiding citizens want to own a handgun? One of the main reasons is to protect themselves against criminals.
Why do leftists seem so intent on making it illegal for law-abiding citizens to own handguns? Their pat, superficially plausible answer is to reduce violent crime, but this is provably false, because it doesn’t reduce violent crime – in fact, just the opposite is true. The extraordinarily high murder rate in places like Chicago is a direct result of having very restrictive gun laws, and moreover this matters to the left not at all. All that really matters to the left is their desire for the state to have a monopoly of force. When the government, run by leftists, is in a position to confiscate all firearms in this country (and that time may not be that far off the way things are going) that is when you will know that the conditions for a turn-key tyranny are in place.
The gun culture is drama-based, resting on Hollywood’s accidental marksmanship training.
The industrially menacing-looking assault rifle bucks in the macho Star’s fists as it is held at the waist. Spent brass dances in the air, giant yellow-white flame sausages pulse from the muzzle as, off in the unbelievable distance, various epitomes of evil jerk, fling arms about, twirl and die under the Star’s look of stern vengeance, punctuated by the cigar butt clenched by his teeth. Or, the dapper dude reaches in the desk drawer during a scene of emotional conflict and reaches for his check book. Behind it in the shadows is the yearning evil of a Smith & Wesson revolver butt. A firearms felony will be forthcoming.
View 10,000 or more of these in Living Color and it all supersedes reality, rolling in on wheels of ignorance. This is the gun culture which misinterprets Drama’s need to introduce major props as proving objects have the power to rule minds. Bob Costas speaks from experiencing the reality of Hollywood products. Is it any wonder that California and other places hate assault rifles? It is not noted that in reality based venues, assault rifles are sometimes referred to as “mouse guns.”
Costass? About a dime’s worth of spit he is.
His old co-anchor didn’t need no dang gun! Go, O.J.!
‘pathologies of the underclass’
This links to a classic piece of fatuous propaganda. One would suppose the few pictures are evidence of something, but what. Now the poor are once again the Underclass and all the crime they suffer with is their fault and why not. Five million is repeated like a mantra. The conclusion is simple all America’s poor are drug using Blacks.
I am surprised they didn’t include pictures of drunken white college men and women as evidence, surely there is more the 5 million of them.
Oh, wait, that wouldn’t be an Underclass pathology.
This does fall under the never miss a chance to knock the poor strategy of the Republicans.
Do guns kill people?
Do pencils misspell words?
Do spoons make Rosie O’Donnell fat?
Do boots make Chuck Norris lethal?
Hey this is fun; we can go all day like this….
But with all the hoooplah and “Schturm und Drang” Bobby has created, we are all talking about him and the 400 pound monstrosity he quoted, are we not?
So, once again The Media makes money on a coupla’ dead people and things are already going back to normal.
Some split bamboo, a cane wielder, and some finely ground salt would shut these two up in one big hurry.
Let N B C run ‘that’ halftime show. No commercial interruptions, please…..
But, as law-abiding citizens, most gun owners would follow the law, and turn their weapons. See England and Australia for examples. As the bumper sticker says: “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns”. The rest of us will become sheep, ready to be sheared or slaughtered.
Don’t bet on it.. There are more of us than of them, the government, the cops (the bad ones).. and most of the military will be with us, not the criminal government. In fact, the military just might be the only path out of this mess.. think about it. They could fix the government problem before dinner time..
I think the difference here is that gun rights are much more firmly entrenched in our culture and even part of our national identity.
The only way the government could legally confiscate guns is if they passed an amendment to supersede the 2nd amendment through the normal process for passing amendments. This will never happen and they know it, which is why most of their efforts focus on either ignoring the amendment or twisting the words to ignore its true purpose. Thus if one considers the constitution to be the supreme law of the land, the average citizen actually has the law behind him when resisting the government from taking his guns, the government would be the one violating the law. Since the military takes an oath of loyalty to the constitution rather than to any politician, they too have a legal claim to intervening in the event of a move to confiscate our guns. I would say that a politician willing violating the constitution and attempting to violate citizen’s basic rights qualifies them as the “domestic enemies” the military is sworn to defend against. I am certain at least a portion of the military would see it that way, and several states would immediately try and secede. At the very least we’d get another civil war, possibly a nuclear one.
My previous post was a reply to weo.
I don’t see how libs can see a terrible tragedy like this as something to stop, and then be perfectly fine with millions of mothers ending the lives of their unborn children, just because they haven’t been born yet. So the birth canal is the dividing line here, except for partial birth abortions.
Doctors cause abortion therefore, we should outlaw Doctors, and that nasty looking tool they use too.
Bob Costas/NBC have yet to question the guns that Holder let slip into Mexico. Maybe they just don’t care about the murders of 300+ Mexican nationals.
I am all for Second Amendment rights but, the right to own arms needs to be carefully regulated. For instance, you can not allow a crazy person to own a gun of any kind. Belcher had a long history of bullying and aggresiveness, and he was taking painkillers (in large amounts) and drinking heavily. He should not have been allowed to purchase a gun. Yes I know he could’ve killed his girlfriend with his bare hands or a knife, and kill himself in many other ways, but we made it much more easy for him by letting him have a gun.
Just curious –
Why would the “KKK” want to give GUNS TO BLACK MEN?
Just askin’, Mr. Whitlock.
[The mind boggles . . .]
You know, I’ve been boycotting Obama for years. Maybe you should try it.
At the same time, I think it’s time to also boycott NBC, the NFL and Bobby Costas (at least until little Bobby gets his hair adjusted).
You know after reading their comments it just brings to mind Forrest Gump.
Stupid is as stupid says……I’m positive Forrest would have a better take on it than me because it just T’s me off that these knuckleheads get paid and, Forrest would clearly have put them in their place. Stick to reporting on sports and keep your idiotic opinions to yourself or walk away from your job because you shouldn’t get paid for not doing it.
Another liberal blaming the gun for its evil thoughts.
Mmm as I recall the statistics tell us that Black Youths between the ages of 15 and 25 (think Trayvon Martin) commit 60% of all the violent crime in the USA even though they constitute but 2% of the population and that Blacks in general are responsible for 50% of all the murders in the USA and are only 13% of the population and 50% of them are women. The most common cause of death for a Black Youth is to be killed by another Black Youth.
So taking Mr Costas logical approach what would reduce crime more banning Guns or banning Blacks. Mmmm who knows.
I watched an American Football game once. It was 3.5 hours of absolute mind numbing boredom, I would rather watch paint dry.
But how is it that the smart, well educated liberal elite has such dumb ideas about most thigs?
This post “The Fatal Flaw” has the answer at:
http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/
If Whitlock truly believes that about the NRA, he could not be more sadly mistaken. If he really wants to put a racial spin on this, he should note that gun control was born of a desire to keep blacks disarmed — not the other way around.
It’s just so ridiculously over the top it boggles the mind that anyone can make such equivalencies with a straight face. The NRA is the new KKK? Really? You mean that organization that terrorized and lynched black people, black people who were by law denied access to the means of self-defense?
No, the left does not stand as a single-issue party, as implied by the article. Here’s how the left really stands:
My prediction of the future runs a little like this: Eventually the Republicans will come to recognize that they lost the election. As soon as they can figure a way to save face, and still do what’s necessary, then we can be well on the road to recovery. With the Democratic Party holding the power of the Presidency for the next 12 year (four under Obama; and eight under Hillary Clinton), and the Congress again becoming a majority monopoly of the Democrats (because of rapid improvement of the economy through Democratic initiatives), the American economy will be in recovery.
The issues of Affordable Health Care Act which a not optimal (and believe me, liberals, unlike conservative beliefs, are completely aware of ObamCare. We understand that because of the conservative blockade, a lot of non-idealized compromises were required to make a start on staying abreast of the rest of the industrialized world as far as this issue is concerned. The next 12 years of Democratic governing.
The extreme-right-wing will lose support and continue to be marginalized, as has always been the case in history. With this marginalization, religion will be taken out of politics, and placed back in the churches—where it belongs. This will allow those who want to be guided by religious dogma freedom to do so; and those who do not feel obliged to particular set of doctrines the freedom to reject them. The Republican might be able to change, or it might go the way of Lincoln’s rival:
All in all, people will know a new freedom from the threat of illness or accident; and the economic freedom to change jobs, quit their job and become an entrepreneur, without worrying about losing their health insurance. We might even end the War on Drugs, and find a whole new source of revenue (tax on the legal sale of once illegal drugs), and stop imprisoning people for just trying to change their reality—like some do right now, legally, through alcohol intoxication.
I can see many other benefits to be achieved in the future—I’m optimistic. But before the readers start calling this Marxist utopianism, let them reflect on their own return to the period literally supposedly spelled out in the Constitution as reactionary utopianism.