See what Bob the Broadcaster does here? He is blaming not just the “gun culture,” but everyone who believes it was inappropriate for him to use Sunday Night Football to blame millions of law-abiding Americans for the heinous actions of one man.
In an interview with New York Times media reporter Bill Carter that appeared in Tuesday’s editions, Costas said: “I think most reasonable people think we do not have sufficient controls on the availability of guns and ammunition.” In response to the angry reaction his statements generated across social media and the blogosphere on Monday, Costas was defiant.
Defiance plus ignorance is still ignorance. Costas would do himself a favor by researching crime rates in the areas of the United States that have the strictest gun control laws, and compare those crimes rates with areas where gun control laws are less restrictive. He would also do himself a favor by looking at the impact of gun control laws worldwide.
But that would require him to do more than just read someone else’s columns or say whatever his producers load up on his teleprompter, wouldn’t it.
In the case of Jovan Belcher, it’s emerging today that he had anger problems from the age of 12, and had longstanding rage issues when it came to women. He never had a father figure in his formative years, thanks to the culture of out-of-wedlock births in which Belcher was born. Emerging evidence suggests that Belcher never really grew up, and that he abused alcohol and drugs and ran around on the mother of his daughter. His formative life left him totally unprepared for anything that stardom in the NFL granted him, and he never took the affirmative step of correcting the course that he knew he was on.
Why are none of these issues relevant to Costas, but inanimate objects are? And why does Costas never consider that if Kasandra Perkins had been armed when Belcher, a massive professional athlete who hunted quarterbacks for a living, confronted her, she might be alive today?
A pistol could well have saved her life, every bit as much as a pistol was used by a bully to end it.
It’s willful ignorance and rhetorical tricks. Typically used by those unwilling to accept data – assume your position is “reasonable” and everyone else is crazy, evil, or both.
I pine for the days when public people who were not politicians or officials knew their place, and did not assume that they were fonts of wisdom on subjects outside of their job description. But when you live in a puffed-up, narcissistic society, people with a microphone are bound to be spectacualr buffoons.
Somewhat agreed. The whole concept of “My opinion is very important because I’M FAMOUS!” drives me insane.
Completely agree. It reveals the lack of order and confusion that is emanating from the media. They must have the occasional identity crisis.
“I think most reasonable people think we do not have sufficient controls on the availability of guns and ammunition”
I agree, the manufacturing and distribution processes aren’t getting the ammo out fast enough, some stores have bare shelfs in the 22 and 308 section! Not to mention, all the guys on the assembly line are worried about making over 250k because of all the overtime. We need more automation and highspeed controls on these assembly lines muy pronto!
bob should shut his milly mouth rear end up.he is another obama anti-gun ahole. the NFL and the Chiefs need to take responsibility.They both fell asleep at the wheel and now 2 people are dead for nothing.
Here’s their email address, let ‘er rip ladies and gentlemen.
nbcsportshelp@nbcuni.com
I proposed banning football over handguns in mine. I can do without football and Bob Costas with a clear conscience. One is entertainment, one is my birthright.
Because Susan Smith drove her car into a lake, deliberately drowning her two sons, it’s clear we don’t have good enough automobile control.
Jock sniffers in the sports media business like Costas make their living glorifying celebrity/athlete culture. And just like other psuedointellectual liberals, they either deliberatly overlook or are too stupid to notice the fact that sports and entertainment are filled with creeps, morons, bigots, drug addicts, drunks, and sundry other degenerates. Not all of course, but a sizable enough percentage that is impossible to go unnoticed. Blaming the acts of a well-known thug and abuser on “the gun culture” is a standard liberal trope and about as intellectually lazy as it gets. Costas repeated the trope because he’s dumb. Others deliberatly use this canard to deflect attention from serious cultural failure.
A pistol certainly might have saved Nicole Brown Simpson or Ron Goldman. But you know, how about we compromise with Mr. Costas?
Instead of forbidding everybody to own handguns, how about we just forbid NFL players from doing so? They certainly seem to have more pathologies, on a general basis, than society at large.
And as far as the NFL–it is making it very clear anybody not voting the Democratic party line will not be made to feel welcome.
Great idea! Lets start spreading it…….ban all NFL—— OMG!—– ALL NBA players from owning guns!
Watch this debate go away so fast, it would be like it never existed.
Have them do a voluntary buy back program to abused women of —- NFL and NBA players ( ok, kidding, but I’ll bet they have some nice pieces).
What good would “reasonable controls” have done — if even the strictest prohibition is not keeping such people from having access to heroin and cocaine?
And though I don’t think it’s a good thing that a teenager was murdered for playing music too loud, it’s better that a few rude teenagers die then that adults be too helpless before teenage violence to dare risk confronting their rudeness.
In any case, we do need guns, as this article demonstrates:
http://columbia.wistv.com/news/crime/54379-deputies-store-clerk-fears-her-life-shoots-robbery-suspect
And as our country changes we need them more and more.
Define “reasonable,” Bob. Now define “sufficient controls.” And don’t start with this “assault weapons” bullshit. On second thought, don’t bother. I already know “sufficient controls” means “no guns” to smug jock-sniffing jackasses like you.
When Reporters make the story
“Defiance plus ignorance” is worse than “still ignorance”. I’d call it malicious ignorance. In the case of Costas, by the hour it is becoming clearer that the malicious part dominates what amounts to a chasm of “don’t need facts”. Treat accordingly: tune out, change channels!