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Bob Costas: Did Founders Want Us Buying ‘Cop-Killer, Armor Piercing Bullets?’
Breitbart's Big Journalism ^ | March 21, 2015 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 03/23/2015 9:37:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

On the March 20 episode of Real Time With Bill Maher, NBC Sportscaster Bob Costas laughed off criticism of his many pro-gun control comments and added to them by asking if people really believe the Founding Fathers wanted “private citizens… to purchase cop-killer, armor-piercing bullets” and an “AK-47″?

Maher opened the door for Costas to do so by citing topics Costas has spoken on –“gay, guns, head injuries”– and suggesting Costas “has to” talk about these things because not other “sportscaster” or “broadcaster” is doing it.

The focus then turned to Costas’ April 2014 suggestion that athletes can’t be trusted with guns, a rant in which Costas lamented our “gun culture” and the “sorry incidents” that happen because athletes own guns.

In reiterating these points to Maher, Costas pointed to NFL defensive end Greg Hardy, “who just got signed with the Cowboys but sat out most of last year because he was involved in a domestic violence case, which is prevalent in the NFL, and dominated the news last season.” The only link Costas could make between the domestic violence case and firearms was that Hardy “threw” his girlfriend “on a couch with loaded shotguns and assault weapons on [it].”

Costas was so absorbed in criticizing guns that he failed to note that guns weren’t used in the acts he was attributing to Hardy. Rather, the violence his girlfriend faced was allegedly committed with Hardy’s own hands.....

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics; Sports
KEYWORDS: banglist; bobcostas; boob; racism; sports
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Sounds like he's trying to deprive minority members of their civil rights to me. Where are Al, Jesse, Louis Eric and Barack?
1 posted on 03/23/2015 9:37:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes. Yes they did, Bob.


2 posted on 03/23/2015 9:38:43 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Could this leftist midget possibly STFU?


3 posted on 03/23/2015 9:39:10 PM PDT by Batman11 (The orange, weeping, drunk, squishy oompah-loompah and Yertle McTurd-le gotta go!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Costas will be the first to go when the SHTF.

I take comfort in knowing that.


4 posted on 03/23/2015 9:40:21 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Our founding fathers also invented the internet Bob Costos ... Sarcasm


5 posted on 03/23/2015 9:41:35 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The Keystone Pipe like Project : build it already Congress !)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bob, did the founders want you to stupidly run your mouth freely on television?

After all, the “press” meant hand cranked printed newspaper.


6 posted on 03/23/2015 9:42:37 PM PDT by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That private citizens should be able to purchase british-killer, redcoat piercing bullets? That you should be able to have a flintlock?

The answer is yes.


7 posted on 03/23/2015 9:42:56 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

good one!


8 posted on 03/23/2015 9:44:47 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (OMING!!!@)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The 2A wasn’t written to guarantee our rights to rubber bullets.


9 posted on 03/23/2015 9:45:14 PM PDT by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, flintlock muskets never killed anybody...


10 posted on 03/23/2015 9:45:19 PM PDT by Argus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They literally would have killed to get them for their countrymen.


11 posted on 03/23/2015 9:45:28 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Costas, an ignorant fool? Yes Bob, yes.
12 posted on 03/23/2015 9:46:34 PM PDT by Fungi (Evolution: no science, no truth, no nothing. Full of faith, faith in the "god" of chance.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Of course they did! They thought every person should be able to protect themselves up to and including a tyrrantical government.


13 posted on 03/23/2015 9:47:00 PM PDT by vpintheak (Call the left what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What the Founders wanted is generally reflected in the Constitution.

People like Bob Costas should be asking, “Why is the President allowed to be both lawmaker and executor which is against the Constitution and is by definition tyranny?”


14 posted on 03/23/2015 9:48:30 PM PDT by PapaNew (The grace of God & freedom always win the debate in the forum of ideas over unjust law & government)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maher of course goes nowhere without armed bodyguards. He is special.


15 posted on 03/23/2015 9:50:23 PM PDT by allendale
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

considering the founders were actively shooting the british ‘cops’, probably yes.

the founders also wanted every man to have a standard infantry issue weapon in their home (a musket)

they also believed it was perfectly ok with private citizens owning CANNONS!

the same cannon that can still blow a hole clean thru a home today. no problem, as far as the founders were concerned


16 posted on 03/23/2015 9:52:33 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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Whomever associated bullets with Cop killers should be in prison.

I vote we call them Bunny Killers, or Fluffy puppy killers, or something else.

17 posted on 03/23/2015 9:52:58 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gee, considering that the US contracted private individuals for their ships with CANNONS, Bob, your are a complete idiot!


18 posted on 03/23/2015 9:53:10 PM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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To: MaxMax

I’d just as soon go with Commie Killers.


19 posted on 03/23/2015 9:54:37 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Because Muskett balls never killed anyone....

Especially in a bugs bunny cartoon...


20 posted on 03/23/2015 9:54:46 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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