Bob Costas Anti Gun Rant at 1/2 Time NFL Game NBC Sports

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By JOHN NOLTE 3 Dec 2012, 5:28 AM PDT

We saw it after that terrible movie theatre shooting in Colorado back in July, and now we're seeing it with the tragic murder/suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher. [beeep] logic, [beeep] facts, [beeep] waiting for a little something known as an investigation -- we have a tragedy, we have a gun, and now we have yet another opportunity to push an agenda meant to strip Americans of their God-given Second Amendment rights.

Last night during NBC's NFL telecast, Bob Costas did something the NFL has always been very good about avoiding -- inserting politics into what Americans of all political stripes see as one of the few remaining escapes from the divisive partisanship that seems to infect everything these days. Taking advantage of a captive halftime audience, Costas sucker punched millions with a left-wing sermon about gun control. The fact that Costas does this while God Bless America can be heard in the background is not an irony that should be lost on anyone:

We all know the logical arguments against Costas' illogical stupidity...

If you’re determined enough to murder your girlfriend and commit suicide, you don’t need a gun to murder your girlfriend and commit suicide.

Maybe if the girlfriend had a gun she'd be alive today.

Just like prohibition can’t stop people who want drugs from getting drugs, all anti-gun laws do is ensure that the law-abiding are at a disadvantage against criminals who know their victims are unarmed.

Every day people in this country are killed at the hands of cars, knives, and alcohol. No one on the left wants to ban or put waiting periods and harsh restrictions on any of those. Every day people in this country die due to illegal drug use and illicit sex -- two kinds of behavior many on the left glamorize and encourage through popular culture and bowing before the likes of Sandra Fluke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uOi7If0zW9s

But our guns they want; and they want them so badly that literally before the bodies at the scene of some awful tragedy have had time to cool, the likes of an NBC, Bob Costas or Piers Morgan refuse to wait to exploit murder and loss and grief with their illogical, unconstitutional, and un-American emotional appeals aimed at the only line of defense between tyranny, anarchy, and personal safety -- an armed citizenry.

Leftists like Costas and Piers don’t give a [beeep] about the dead or those grieving the dead. And they surely don't care about saving lives, or they would be just as strident and insufferable when it came to alcohol and illicit sex. This debate has only and ever been about control.

Guns represent, and, most importantly, defend that one thing Leftists just can't stand: American individualism. Somewhere in the left's DNA is a gene that works like a warning signal that goes off every time something gets in the way of or comes off as a threat against The Hive. You can't completely control someone holding a gun, therefore guns must be bad.

Like every other Leftist who has and will exploit this awful tragedy, Costas doesn’t want to save lives, he wants to control us -- he wants to strip us of the liberty he finds so messy and troubling. If that's not it, where are the half-time speeches every time a gun saves the life of a would-be victim? Where are the insufferably smug editorials with every study released that proves fewer violent crimes occur in communities where the bad guys know the citizens are more likely to be armed?

Personally, I hate guns -- probably more than most leftists do. I hate holding, owning, firing and having guns in the house. But I do have them in the house. Because I understand that something worse than owning a gun is being confronted in the middle of the night with someone who does, and that my responsibility to protect my wife isn't all about my own precious, selfish, delicate little personal issues.

I also understand that it's good for my government to know I'm armed with more than just the Constitution.

I don't know what drove Jovan Belcher to do what he did Saturday morning. But I do know that if he was prompted or motivated by something the left holds sacred, Costas and his ilk will never speak of it.
 
Originally Posted By: Dead Down WindTime to boycott Bob Costas!!

A boycott of the individual is worthless, to be a good boycott contact the sponsors and the tell them. Then contact the network and explain your position and why you will not watch their network until he is removed.

Do it civilly, being an arse won't get their attention like a nice letter will.
 
2 weeks from now when the autopsy reports come in, it will be interesting if any drugs/chemicals were involved. I wonder if we will really hear the truth.
 

Well, at least they're not all screamin' gun conrtol, anyway.

Quote:Gun not at fault for Belcher's acts

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Updated Dec 3, 2012 8:03 PM ET

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BEARS REPEATING

Kasandra Perkins and Jovan Belcher would be alive if there had been no handgun in their home, Jason Whitlock says.

This was the smart play. Watering down constitutional rights is not easily undertaken. So scaring Americans and then using that fear to explain why this egregious assault on their rights is for their own good is genius. This is exactly why the right protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures of Americans is no longer absolute, thanks to the Patriot Act, and a right to a speedy and public trial by jury was only days ago finally reaffirmed in the Senate, with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) so eloquently arguing, “If we relinquish our rights because of fear, what is it exactly, then, we are fighting for?”

Yes, tragedy is a dangerous time for the Bill of Rights because somebody is always there to wave a flag or an orphaned baby and use that to explain why we need to voluntarily give up rights our Founding Fathers so wisely gave to us. And so it is with this Jovan Belcher tragedy.

The Kansas City Chiefs linebacker gunned down his girlfriend — the mother of his baby — and then killed himself, leaving a 3-month-old girl without parents. That this is a tragedy is inarguable. That this is some sort of referendum on the Second Amendment and our right to bear arms is absurd.

My esteemed colleague, Jason Whitlock, argued just that in a very thoughtful column, noting “What I believe is, if (Belcher) didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.” NBC analyst Bob Costas used this as a jumping off point to proselytize during halftime of “Football Night in America” about perspective in sports and the dangers of guns.

The problem with intelligent, impassioned, well-reasoned arguments is how seductive they are. It is easier to blow off the crazy guy screaming “ban all guns” than journalists such as Whitlock or Costas who are arguing rather convincingly how the Second Amendment threatens our liberty rather than enhances it.

What I know for sure is the distinguished senator from Kentucky is right. And his impassioned defense of the Sixth Amendment on the Senate floor last week needs to be Googled and viewed by everybody calling for a gun ban in response to the Belcher tragedy.



TRAGEDY IN KANSAS CITY

· Chiefs' Belcher kills girlfriend, himself

· Engel: Don't blame the gun

· Whitlock: No time to play a game

· Police release details | Families speak out

· Chiefs get emotional win | Reaction

· Who was Belcher? | Career in pictures

“We have nothing to fear that should cause us to relinquish our rights as free men and women,” Paul said. “I urge my colleagues to reject fear, to reject the siren call for ever more powerful government.”

This is not simply about guns. This is about rights. It is a slippery slope from doing something in the interest of public safety to giving up what we hold dear. The slope is greased with fear, with a self-righteous belief that we know better than the framers of the Constitution. And it is all based on informal fallacy.

The idea that if we just ban all guns Kasandra Perkins does not die and a 3-month-old baby is not orphaned is the very essence of a stated premise that fails to support its proposed conclusion. Yes, guns are dangerous and people such as Belcher sometimes use them to do awful things. What I believe in my heart is Jovan Belcher was going to find a way to wreak havoc that day whether he had a gun or a knife or only his fists. And even the potential to stop him is not justification for willingly handing over rights guaranteed to us.

If this makes me a gun nut or a wing nut or a preachy PITA, I am OK with those labels. Although, I prefer Constitutionalist.

There are not a lot of us left — not absolutists, at least.

Conservatives argue for limiting the right to a speedy trial because terrorists are dangerous. Liberals argue for taking away my right to bear arms because people like Belcher use them in unspeakably horrific ways. [beeep], the mayor of New York wants to take away my right to buy a big cup of Coke while in his city because obesity has become such an epidemic. Where does it end? Taking away free speech, freedom of the press? Restricting our right to peaceably assemble? Whittling away our very liberty?

Liberty and democracy are not the same things.

Democracy means the majority decides what rules govern us. Liberty is the idea that we all have certain rights that cannot be taken away, not even by a majority. These are the “inalienable rights” of the Declaration of Independence, and when we give them up voluntarily, for whatever reason no matter how altruistic, what we find is all we have done is given more rights to the government that were intended for us.

Doing so makes us less safe, not more.

So I absolutely believe in “a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed” just as I do the right to a trial by jury and freedom of religion. And as tragic as this Belcher murder-suicide story is, as much as my heart breaks for that little girl, the answer is not taking away or willingly giving up the right of Americans to bear arms.

Because if we give up our liberty for the mirage of safety, what really have we won?

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Regards,
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Originally Posted By: dogcatcherOriginally Posted By: Dead Down WindTime to boycott Bob Costas!!

A boycott of the individual is worthless, to be a good boycott contact the sponsors and the tell them. Then contact the network and explain your position and why you will not watch their network until he is removed.

Do it civilly, being an arse won't get their attention like a nice letter will.


CONTACT THE NFL! Let them contact the sponsors. If every gun owner in the country refused to watch any football game broadcast by that network, Costas will be gone in a week.
 
Quote:While the recent loss of Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend is certainly a tragedy, Bob Costas comments during Sunday night's game were uncalled for. My and 117,000,000 other law abiding, gun owning households do not deserve to be chastised by Bob Costas for the actions of Jovan Belcher. If Bob Costas wants to preach an agenda, he needs to leave NBC sports. If in fact, that agenda is likewise the NFL's, as it appears to be since no apology has been offered for Mr. Costas blatant disrespect for the rights of several hundred million law abiding citizens, then you need to look for new fans. Because you just lost several million of us.

Rocky Thomas

http://www.nfl.com/contact-us

Contact link is for the website, but if they arrive at work tomorrow with a couple thousand e-mails coming in hourly on that line, they'll get the message upstairs.
 
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Bonus round... got a great big long questionaire that allowed extensive amounts of input on several different questions!! They got several more messages.


Thanks Irish 80!!
 
Posted on the NFL link--

When I watch football, I am not expecting to hear liberal rants about taking away my constitutional rights. If the NFL really thinks having someone like Bob Costas rant his liberal spiel that my guns need to be taken away, I believe that others like me will decide that they don't need to waste their time watching. I have owned guns since I was twelve years old and have never committed a crime with them. I'm sure a lot more sportsmen watch who also take their rights to keep and bear arms as a constitutional right that should not be infringed on, and a football game is not the place to give someone like that a podium to espouse their views. My right to keep and bear arms is a lot more important than a football game.
 
E-mail to that address hasn't bounced!

I also took the liberty of contacting the NRA and suggesting they might suggest this to their membership.
 
Originally Posted By: Orneryolfart3572 weeks from now when the autopsy reports come in, it will be interesting if any drugs/chemicals were involved. I wonder if we will really hear the truth.
+ 1
 
All loss of life for no good reason is tragic.I think many more lives would be saved by making cars safer and working harder on drinking and driving.I don't mean to step on toes.In my youth I was bad to drink and drive.I was so very lucky.I never had an accident of any kind,but it was not my skill as a driver,it had to be Gods grace that kept me from hurting someone.I am sorry I did it and thankful I came to my senses.I am not going to try to tell anyone what they should do about drinking.I am just relating this and the loss of life and wealth as compared to gun tragedies.Where are the rants at half time about all those who have consumed to many beers at the game to safely drive home?
 
Quote:Where are the rants at half time about all those who have consumed to many beers at the game to safely drive home? this won’t happen as long as the beer companies are a major sponsor.
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BTW I’m not disagreeing with your post. It makes a lot of sense.
 
Last I heard football players aren't held up to much in the way of being model citizens, it's a rough bunch.

There are guys that go homicidal over a woman cheating or even giving them lip service, who knows what tipped him off?

Preaching to the choir to say trying to eliminate guns won't stop those who are going off the deep end. Only the woman that got shot knows what she did. The fact that he didn't go psycho on anyone else would seem to indicate that the focus was on one person, the one who got shot.
 
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