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Subject: NBC Commentator Blames KC Murder-Suicide on Handguns

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Article, plus Video with text dialogue.

BOB COSTAS: Well, you knew it was coming. In the aftermath of the nearly unfathomable events in Kansas City, [unintelligible] 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.

"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."




I was watching the NFL game and was flabbergasted when this little bit came on air.

On national television during the halftime of the Cowboys/Philly game, Bob Costas of NBC stated that handguns were to blame for the tragedy that befell the Kansas City Chiefs this past week after a player allegedly killed his GF, then went to the arena where he took his own life.

Why do people still need to blame an inanimate object for human actions?

My reaction


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  • 12.02.2012 9:03 PM PDT

Yeah when he said that I was pretty confused. It was not wrong time and place to take a stand. Los a lot of respect for Costas. He's not completely wrong but the way he went about it was. IMO.

  • 12.02.2012 9:05 PM PDT

Who cares, Handegg sucks.

  • 12.02.2012 9:05 PM PDT

Yes because if hand guns were outlawed it wouldn't have turned out any different. You Americans are like kids who attack another kid because he has a better then you, but instead of hitting, you shoot to kill.

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  • 12.02.2012 9:07 PM PDT

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And? So he is a idiot because he has a different opinion than you? A lot of people blame handguns and I dont see why that is unreasonable.

  • 12.02.2012 9:08 PM PDT
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and to think I liked Bob Costas

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  • 12.02.2012 9:09 PM PDT

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Posted by: xMaJoR cRaBsx
And? So he is a idiot because he has a different opinion than you? A lot of people blame handguns and I dont see why that is unreasonable.


I don't think he's an idiot, I beleive his view that an inanimate object is to blame for human actions is laughably stupid.

  • 12.02.2012 9:10 PM PDT

The human element always mucks things up.

Posted by: Chester Duncan
Yes because if hand guns were outlawed it wouldn't have turned out any different.


Can't tell if srs freedom lover or dirty butthurt foreigner.

  • 12.02.2012 9:16 PM PDT


Posted by: Chester Duncan
Yes because if hand guns were outlawed it wouldn't have turned out any different. You Americans are like kids who attack another kid because he has a better then you, but instead of hitting, you shoot to kill.
That's a terrible analogy man, bias of personal views aside, that' s a very terrible analogy. I highly suggest you take some time out of your day / night / morning to think about how bad that was.

  • 12.02.2012 9:18 PM PDT

Dating Age

For those looking to vent, get proper advice, or give it to those in need.

Gun culture.

  • 12.02.2012 9:20 PM PDT

handguns suck. That's why im getting an AK-47

  • 12.02.2012 9:25 PM PDT

You know what does kill people.

Illegal gun walking operations involving cartels.
Drone strikes against innocent civilians
Getting involved in conflicts we don't belong in

  • 12.02.2012 9:37 PM PDT

Circle Jerkin' I got my wiener workin'

I am a gun owner and I am still waiting for the day my guns rob a bank or murder someone. All I hear is how guns are bad and how they cause crime.

Should I be worried living under the same roof as guns?

  • 12.02.2012 9:40 PM PDT


Posted by: Potato Joe
I am a gun owner and I am still waiting for the day my guns rob a bank or murder someone. All I hear is how guns are bad and how they cause crime.

Should I be worried living under the same roof as guns?
You should be very worried, I woke up last night with my M91/30 Mosin Nagant plotting out an attack on my local school with blue prints with target points. My Ruger 10/22 came back a few weeks ago drunk and on the news a couple of toddlers at a daycare were found shot. Be cautious, I suggest therapy to make them open up to you.

  • 12.02.2012 9:45 PM PDT

Key

Because you can't kill a human with your bare hands from 20 feet away?

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  • 12.02.2012 9:46 PM PDT
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Your 'beliefs' mean less than dick to me.

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 might be the stupidest thing Jason Whitlock has ever said. And that's saying something.

  • 12.02.2012 9:47 PM PDT

I would like to see a firearm which just magicly kills people without any ammunition or outside help.

  • 12.02.2012 9:54 PM PDT

It's NBC what do you expect.

Bob costas has always been a loser. Knows nothing about sports.

Completely inappropriate to give his 2 cents on gun issues 1day after this tradegy.

  • 12.02.2012 10:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: MrR46
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 might be the stupidest thing Jason Whitlock has ever said. And that's saying something.


That might be the stupidest thing anyone has ever said, IMO.

  • 12.02.2012 10:03 PM PDT

(V)!_!(V) crab

I dont think some of you really grasp the true concept of this article.

  • 12.02.2012 10:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: Potato Joe
I am a gun owner and I am still waiting for the day my guns rob a bank or murder someone. All I hear is how guns are bad and how they cause crime.

Should I be worried living under the same roof as guns?


Firearms have been serving humanity faithfully for centuries.

They are a tool amongst thousands and thousands of tools developed by humanity.

  • 12.02.2012 10:17 PM PDT

Cause he couldn't have killed his girlfriend with a knife.

Killers gonna kill. Whether it is a gun, or a knife, or a damn frosted flake. Just cause it's easier for one thing to kill something doesn't mean it is the reason it happens. People are people, if they're going to kill someone they're going to kill someone. Take away the gun, they use a knife. Take the knife they use their hands. Take their hands and you become just as -blam!- up as them.

  • 12.02.2012 10:24 PM PDT

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Posted by: MrR46
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 might be the stupidest thing Jason Whitlock has ever said. And that's saying something.
It's the truth. Most people are stupid and cannot handle owning a weapon. Most people would rather pull out their gun and shoot when scared or worried of their safety, than wait and calmly asset the situation, and yes, Guns do kill people. They're tools which only purpose IS too kill or damage someone. Common citizens should not have access to them.

  • 12.02.2012 10:31 PM PDT

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Posted by: EnragedElite67
"The problem with quotes on the internet is 95% are made up." - Socrates

And once again, NBC pushing their agenda. Is sports not safe from their bull -blam!-?

Hey NBC, why not start reporting on people who defended them selves with a gun? Or is that to against how you want your audience to think?

  • 12.02.2012 10:37 PM PDT

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