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General Topics => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bunker on December 02, 2012, 05:26:14 PM
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Watching football and Bob Costas quoted some writer saying if Belcher didn't own a handgun Kasandra Perkins and Jovan Betcher would still be alive. What a stupid thing to say...moran should stick to reporting sports and keep his useless opinion to himself.
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You beat me to it. It's like when an actor endorses a politician... why would anyone care what your opinion is?
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It's stupid stuff like that fueling firearm restrictions and bans. He's an idiot for even suggesting such a ludicrous thing publicly. As if someone must have a firearm to kill someone.
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i heard one of the game announcers saying he was, "blown away" by the news
not a very good choice of words...
It's stupid stuff like that fueling firearm restrictions and bans. He's an idiot for even suggesting such a ludicrous thing publicly. As if someone must have a firearm to kill someone.
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You beat me to it. It's like when an actor endorses a politician... why would anyone care what your opinion is?
It worked for Obama with Oprah
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It worked for Obama with Oprah
yup, no doubt it works. Some people are too lazy to actually read and not capable of forming their own opinion.
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In case anyone didn't catch the airing, here's the transcript of his little monologue, courtesy of Real Clear Politics (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/12/03/nbcs_bob_costas_goes_on_gun_control_rant_about_nfl_players_murder-suicide.html)
"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.
"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."
Aaaaand now I hate Bob Costas.
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In case anyone didn't catch the airing, here's the transcript of his little monologue, courtesy of Real Clear Politics (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/12/03/nbcs_bob_costas_goes_on_gun_control_rant_about_nfl_players_murder-suicide.html)
Aaaaand now I hate Bob Costas.
Only now? I always hated that guy. I don't know how he got into broadcasting when he looks and sounds like an annoying troll.
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Me too...couldn't stand him as a sports announcer and he took it to a new level...a confirmed idiot.
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NBC Sports had Costas ad during 3 gun nation and GunTalk this morning. I don't watch that kind of sports (football) but Costas can take his views and shove it. F*cking idiot. They should drop off his elitist ass in Libya and tell us how he feels about guns then.
Hate these so-called experts on "gun control" ..."I grew up with guns and we don't need semi-automatic guns" blah blah. I can see why the NRA takes on extreme views sometimes...some of us so-called gun owners are teetering towards more gun control and we don't even know it.