Bob Costas is a knucklehead

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I've decided that I'm so offended that someone expressed an opinion contrary to my own that I'm going to let them know that I've chosen to be offended by their expression of their opinion.
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Do you get to do it on national tv with millions watching?

Does your opinion stated on national use the tragic deaths of people unrelated to you as the reason for your forum? Costas used this tragedy to express his opinion on national tv and he said that the handgun was the reason for the deaths. If this is right then your sarcasm rings true. If you don't feel he did anything wrong then your sarcasm rings true. If you own a gun and feel it makes you evil then your sarcasm rings true. Otherwise, you just don't get it.
 
Heck, I remember the PMRC hearings on music lyrics in the 1980's. Tipper Gore was doing the primetime circuit, describing in excruciating detail the deviant acts being described in songs she certainly didn't want our children to hear.
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Yeah that was classic - especially being a metal head. It was priceless when Dee Snider of Twisted Sister showed up in court to plead his case.
 
I was active in the 1990's, when the US Attorney General was on television painting us all up as a bunch of homicidal nutjobs. I got worried about that. Costas? Nah.
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By your admission, you don't watch football. Costas isn't just another analyst, he is considered one of the top announcers. He isn't preaching to a handful of followers who hang on his every word, he is preaching his slanted views to tens of millions of viewers. These viewers also vote. If Costas uses his anti-gun stance to persuade the people to vote out the ability to bear arms, you will then understand how powerful his words are.

I swear, if people devoted 1% of the attention they spend on sport to politics, this country would be a better place.
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This may be true but the fact is our country loves their football. Tens of millions of viewers watch SNF and respect Costas for his place in football. If Walter Cronkite got on the Sunday night news andsaid the same things, you would stand up and take notice. Yes, Cronkite. Costas and SNF has that big of an audience. Just because you don't watch doesn't mean his words fell on deaf ears. Tens of millions of people heard him. They also vote. Those facts deserve more than a shrug and yawn. This was a huge blow to the people who respect the gun rights in this country. Tens of millions of people heard him. Where else do you get such a captive audience?
 
It was priceless when Dee Snider of Twisted Sister showed up in court to plead his case.
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The best part was that he was joined by Frank Zappa and John Denver. The whole thing was truly surreal.

He isn't preaching to a handful of followers who hang on his every word, he is preaching his slanted views to tens of millions of viewers.
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I didn't get that at first, but you're right about his popularity. The problem for him is that football fans aren't very big fans of gun control. There's already backlash about his comments building (some NSFW language at the link).

The weird thing is that the blog he quotes is self-contradicting drivel. Whitlock refers to football as a violent game twice in one paragraph before abruptly turning the focus to guns:

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.
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He then muses that the shooter's actions will be scrutinized through the "lens of concussions and head injuries." Maybe those things might be the factors in unreasonable and aggressive behavior? Naaaaaah, let's blame guns.

This was a huge blow to the people who respect the gun rights in this country.
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I think he and Costas will find that they really chose the wrong forum to air their views in the days to come.
 
"What I believe is, if he didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today."
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Lies.

Suicide rates don't change from one society to another, regardless of gun availability. Suicides with guns decline when guns aren't available, but suicides do not.

A young, professional athlete, a man in his physical prime who plays one of the most violent and physically demanding sports in the world, definitely could kill a petite woman with his bare hands.

That second point needs to be more widely understood, especially by petite women dating high-testosterone young men.

pax
 
I don't think we have to worry about bob him self . I think it has to do more with the stage he uses to say these things . It was MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL now yes I know it's not as watched as it once was but it still has a HUGE audience . I not only think we should be calling NBC we should be calling the NFL as well .

What next the WWP is going to be anti gun :D
 
Liberals like Bob Costas and Jason Whitlock are completely out of touch with reality. Bob Costas is very wealthy and lives in a nice gated community with private security. Wherever he travels, he has an entourage around him. I guess he believes if their was gun control, the criminals wouldn't have guns either.

More is coming out about this NFL player. Jason Belcher was hooked on pain pills and alcohol. He shot his girlfriend nine times, in front of his own mother, who was staying with them. This guy was a nut case ready to snap.

Costas says if Belcher didn't have a gun, they would still be alive. If he was that crazy, he would have found another violent method to kill her.
 
Well, that was certainly an anti-2nd Amendment rant! However, I wouldn't expect anything less from an NBC commentary.
 
Guns are the problem. That's why I keep mine locked up and unloaded. Otherwise they would jump into my hand and make me shoot someone. I have asked my wife to keep all of our forks and spoons locked up, because they keep making me put food into my mouth and gaining weight. But seriously, a more ominous expression of the anti-gun mentality of NBC is shown in its unwillingness to ever be critical of gun control efforts, as witnessed by their continued virtual total ignoring of the Fast and Furious scandal.
 
I am disappointed in his remarks. He is a local boy, and is one of the most intelligent voices in sports. I have always liked the guy. As smart as he is, his response to this tragedy shows that he has bought into the anti-gun propaganda which has long been a part of the NBC agenda IMO. I will make my voice heard in opposition to his stand.
 
How many young people have to die senselessly? How many lives have to be ruined before we realize the right to bear arms doesn’t protect us from a government equipped with stealth bombers, predator drones, tanks and nuclear weapons?
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Last time I checked, parking a stealth bomber on a street corner, or nuking your own country, wasn't how a police state was run. Tanks, drones and helicopter gun ships can't go house to house kicking in doors either. You need an unarmed populace and boots on the ground for that. High powered rifles in the hands of the citizenry, are still a legitimate threat to such an environment forming.
 
That's right kraig...
Somebody PLEASE take away Bob's microphone before he kills someone with his dangerous words... How many lives have to be ruined by his nutty ranting?
 
Lordy, I got a concussion playing football and then another in the Sandbox. Top it off with me having been pinged as at risk for PTSD and I'm just a ticking time bomb.

Costas is an idiot, I thought that before this based on what he thinks of Matt Ryan, but this just rienfores that belief.
 
"What I believe is, if he didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today."
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And what I believe is that, if he hadn't had a gun, Kasandra Perkins would still be dead, but due to some form of blunt force trauma and/or strangulation, and the football hero would either be in jail or would have driven his over-priced football star personal vehicle into a bridge abutment somewhere.

Jason Whitlock's rant is typical of the mindset that demonizes the tool in order to excuse the ghetto mindset, in which violence is the response to any disagreement. The sad thing is, Perkins had left him once, then she came back and was planning to leave again. If she had stayed gone, she would (probably) still be alive.
 
Just like the news media uses their platform to promote their own agenda instead of reporting unbiased news, it's now bled over to sports casting.

Maybe Costas needs to stick with reporting/talking on what he was hired to report on rather then using his sportscast air time to cast his own misguided views of which is apparent he doesn't have a clue.

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"What I believe is, if he didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today."
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This belief/statement is so typical of someone that has usually lived a very sheltered life and does not get out of their own little world enough to know what's really going on in the rest of the world. The statement is really so stupid it's hardly worth commenting on.

The stage is now set for us to sit back and see what reprocussions(if any) NBC will instill on Costas.
If NBC does not at least make him go on air with a formal apology, it must mean they share the views of Costas. And it must be OK for their news/sportscasters to not only share unbiased news with us but to promote their own personal political agenda's while using NBC's air time for that purpose.
 
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Lies.

Suicide rates don't change from one society to another, regardless of gun availability. Suicides with guns decline when guns aren't available, but suicides do not.

A young, professional athlete, a man in his physical prime who plays one of the most violent and physically demanding sports in the world, definitely could kill a petite woman with his bare hands.

That second point needs to be more widely understood, especially by petite women dating high-testosterone young men.

pax
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Amen! If the girlfriend had a gun perhaps this drugged up violent individual would have thought twice about attacking her. Or if he persisted she would have had a chance to defend herself against a superior physical force.

When idiots like Bob Zumbo Costas make off topic rants like this it is a sign they no longer relate to their audience and have come to believe what they think is more important than their stupid audience. They only way they can be reminded they work for a living at the pleasure of paying customers is for the customers to walk away.
 
I just heard another sports commentator, Jim Gray, on Fox News agreeing with Costas. Their argument is no gun available means no murder or suicide. What about a kitchen knife, hammer, baseball bat, or his bare hands? Just because a gun is not present doesn't mean a murder can't happen. Plus to commit suicide he could have driven his car into a wall, or done it other ways.
 
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