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Bob Costas: ‘If Jovan Belcher did not possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive’
SI.com ^ | Dec. 2, 2012 | SI.com Tracking Blog

Posted on 12/02/2012 10:29:29 PM PST by Alaska Wolf

NBC sportscaster Bob Costas used his weekly monologue on “Sunday Night Football” to discuss the fallout of the tragedy in Kansas City, urging viewers to move past the cliched coverage of the “perspective” gleaned from the news that linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend and then himself Saturday morning.

Costas focused much of his monologue on a column by Fox Sports’ Jason Whitlock, which argued that “current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy.” Costas said that although he often doesn’t agree with Whitlock, he found his argument to be spot on this time.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
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To: GeronL

Or a bat, machete, golf club,rock, etc... People who kill? Kill. Simple as that. Costas is an Idiot MSM Tool.


61 posted on 12/03/2012 2:39:35 AM PST by liberty or death
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To: 1010RD
You could draw the conclusion looking at gun crimes that blacks shouldn’t own guns. Is that what Costas is hinting at here?

I'm not sure, but crime statistics certainly indicate that.

62 posted on 12/03/2012 2:43:03 AM PST by Alaska Wolf (USA!)
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To: Alaska Wolf

If Christopher Krumm hadn’t had a knife and a bow and arrow, he, and his father, James Krumm, and his father’s girlfriend, Heidi Arnold, would still be alive.

Thank God he didn’t have a gun!


63 posted on 12/03/2012 2:50:12 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: ssaftler
I know - still off topic. Anyways I was flipping channels and came upon some show with Jenny McCarthy with her and her posse in their designer clothes and boots went to this family's house to fix it up.

Family was a single mother with a boyfriend du jour and 3 kids (one was biracial). Of course, everyone was in tears over how the show was going to help them, poor victims.

Now what I'd like to see is these shows revisiting their projects a year later. I'm sure this particular family would have a new baby, a new boyfriend and the house a wreck again.

65 posted on 12/03/2012 3:01:11 AM PST by 3catsanadog (No more blaming Bush, Obama-now you inherited the mess you made.)
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To: Alaska Wolf

66 posted on 12/03/2012 3:01:21 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Alaska Wolf

That’s the original foundation of “gun-control” laws in America - keeping guns out of the hands of blacks. Is Costas calling for a return to that? Most liberals I know are bigoted - they’re pro-black, but not in my neighborhood - types.


67 posted on 12/03/2012 3:01:41 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

“If Bob’s significant other had a gun, we might not have to listen to his drivel.”

Bob’s significant other IS Bob!


69 posted on 12/03/2012 3:13:44 AM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: OddLane

Bob Costas interviewed Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland for the MLB network and got on his case for his smoking habit but Jim wasn’t playing that game.

To me it seemed like Costas was trying to suggest that Leyland could be held in higher regard by the “community” if not for his smoking.


70 posted on 12/03/2012 3:15:16 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Alaska Wolf; All

I still remember Jim McKay...after the PLO killed the 11 Israelis/Jews in Munich during the Olympics...his reporting of the event....and his only commentary was “They’re all gone”. He didn’t pander to the PLO.

I bet Costas would have

Just so unclassy of Costas to push his Gun Control Nazi agenda on a sports program....especially when NBC Sports Network has so many hunting shows on it


71 posted on 12/03/2012 3:20:09 AM PST by SeminoleCounty (Illegal Aliens do not pay Social Security...Employers do)
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To: Alaska Wolf

I listened to his pathetic little “mini-rant” - so devoid of reality. If the gun wouldn’t have been available the knife would have been. Quit blaming inanimate objects for psyco problems!


72 posted on 12/03/2012 3:22:29 AM PST by wesagain (The God (Elohim) of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the One True GOD.)
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To: Alaska Wolf

Costas should go to japan an learn Hari kari, also known as sepuku. Since it doesn’t contain any kind of gun powder, it should be considered safe.

All logging, and carpentry equipment should also be considered safe. He’s a numb skull.


73 posted on 12/03/2012 3:23:29 AM PST by chainsaw ("Two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by Obama")
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To: wesagain

If Belcher had not had a gun, he almost certainly would have strangled her. Perhaps we should stop letting athletes work out so much, they are much too strong.


74 posted on 12/03/2012 3:25:29 AM PST by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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To: ltc8k6

“Disgusting use of a tragedy to make a pandering political statement...”

Yes; I’ve always refrained from chiming in on the football head injury debate, but now I’ll oppose football on the grounds that it is a danger to the second amendment.

Ban football outright; I don’t want it used as an excuse to take away my guns.


75 posted on 12/03/2012 3:55:50 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Rastus
Cue the laughter at the ignorant bigot, but it’s absolute truth.

I remember siding with meathead and Gloria as a young man. I thought Archie was a putz. But now when I watch I find myself cheering for him. (Meathead sure turned out to be a prophetic nickname.)

76 posted on 12/03/2012 3:55:50 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: Alaska Wolf

OJ didn’t use a handgun. Sandusky didn’t use a handgun. Vick didn’t use a handgun.


77 posted on 12/03/2012 3:57:01 AM PST by paint_your_wagon
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
"Nicole Simpson...possession of a gun"

A point that needs to be shouted out loudly. The murderer in this case was a professional football player-- a huge, muscular man who could easily have choked the life out the unfortunate young woman in seconds. Many woman who are murdered are in similar situations. They're usually much physically weaker than the male assaulting them, and are easy victims. Give them a gun, and the odds shift mightily.

78 posted on 12/03/2012 4:03:19 AM PST by driftless2
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To: Alaska Wolf

in the minds of men like Belcher, a woman “taking” them for child support or “putting them on” child support is a serious offense, don’t ask me why.


79 posted on 12/03/2012 4:12:48 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Alaska Wolf

Listening to Mike Lupica on Imus and he’s saying the same thing. Lefties abound around gun control!


80 posted on 12/03/2012 4:25:27 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (I miss President Bush! 2012 - The End Of An Error! (Oathkeeper))
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