Bob Costas and gun control

I am a proud supporter of the NRA  by the way and if you want to keep your right to guns you should seriously consider becoming a member. They do a lot to protect that right.

Could not agree more with you, tree. I grew up hunting and fishing. I got my first shotgun when I was 10, and my first rifle when I was 12. I was taught to respect the firearm, and how to safely handle them. I shot sporting clays, as well hunted deer and turkey. I wasn't using the guns for protection, and can't fathom not being able to teach my kids the same skills. It was a way of life forum grandfather and my father. Taking away guns will absolutely only leave the law abiding citizens helpless to the criminals who will not turn theirs in.

That's what Costas the douche does best

i agree it's not the guns fault 

This says it all...if someone wants someone dead, they will find a way.

The problem is losers and mental defectives (like this POS from KC was) having guns.....

Hey God didn't kill people why people kill people?????.

 

Santa Claus hasnt killed anyone either so what does your god have to do with anything? Lets stick with reality and keep the fairy tales out of the courts okay?

 

 

Ccould you cite a single one of the "thousands" of studies please?

I'm not a "gun nut", but I am at least aware of the data.  And the data strognly suggests otherwise.  Chicago is the perfect example of a city with strict gun laws -- probably the most strict in the country -- and yet gun violence has gone up as the laws have gotten more strict.   Legislating guns doesn't work, people.

The sad fact is that Belcher could/would have stabbed/bludgeoned/run over with his car this woman, and then done something else to kill himself (OD, crash car, you name it).   Suicidal/Homicidal ideation doesn't require guns to exist, or to execute. 

People like Costas, who see something like that happen and say "guns are the reason this happened; we need to get rid of guns" are naive and stupid -- yes, stupid -- and can't see past the most superficial, kneejerk layers of a very complex problem.  

I live in Canada, hard to get a gun, feel a lot safer here than a country where everybody can get a gun and use it for any purpose...killing somebody with a gun is the easiest way, it may have been hard for Javon to kill his girlfriend and himself by any other way than getting in his bedroom, take that gun and shoot some bullets towards her...

USA has to change that gun culture....so easy to murder, we just cant control each others mind and those situations will keep happening

Americans will never get it..The rest of the developed world knows that more guns equal more problems..For some reason people in the states just don't get it.

NO HE WOULD HAVE WRECKED HIS CAR.

This.

Why I think you're generalizing "Americans" a bit, many republican types will never understand.  Only people that should have deadly weapons like that are people who are trained to use them (Ie. police officers).  How is Tom person and Harry running around with a gun safe?  I could never live in a place like that.

For the people who are for gun control laws I will concede that the United States has the highest rate of murders with firearms.

Costas removed an important part of Whitlock's statement to make it politically charged. Here's what Whitlock did write.

"In the coming days, Belcher’s actions will be analyzed through the lens of concussions and head injuries. Who knows? Maybe brain damage triggered his violent overreaction to a fight with his girlfriend. What I believe is, if he didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today."

Bob Costas is an idiot!

What part of "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" doesn't he understand?

yea ban guns then he'll get a knife and stab her 9 times.  Bob had a smirk while he was making that comment.  Go back to the video clip and look at his grin while he made those comments.

I don't want my Senator or Governor commenting on my sports, I don't need my sports commentator commenting on political issues.....

Talk about sports Costas, or stick your head up your own a$$....

 

He is wrong

 

agree 

If i want to be lectured about gun control I don't want it coming from that little twit. I watch sunday night football to watch football, not hear that dumbasses opinion on gun control. I actually looked for a place to complain to NBC to keep politics and crap like this out of the game. Never done that before.