Javon Belcher Murder/Suicide

[Wojo]

Whitlocks comments are getting even more rediculous....

"I believe the NRA is the new KKK," Whitlock said. "And that the arming of so many black youths, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people that obviously don’t have our best interests

Source:
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...availability-of-guns-makes-mayhem-easier?lite

 

[Dklo]

I put this on one of the other open costas threads too. He was on the Dan Patrick show today back peddling

http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameo...n-belcher-suicide-kansas-city-chiefs/1745491/

Why dont you ask a few cops that question Bob? I have. None of them rolled their eyes.

Its obvious Bob never served in the military and knows nothing about guns. If people had been carrying in that theater in Colorado, there is a very good chance less people would have been hurt. Can I say that with 100% certainty like Bob and sh#tlock? Of Course not.

Body armor doesnt make you invincible. While the bullet may be defeated, that energy must go somewhere. now I have never been shot wearing body armor and I dont wish to, but from what I have seen, Getting shot wearing body armor will still hurt like hell! Maybe it would have given the shooter pause, and maybe he would have dove for cover or simply run out of the theater.

I also like the part about "why do you need a semi-automatic firearm". Why do rich people need big houses? seems like a waste to me. maybe we should have laws against rich people with big houses.

What pisses me off the most is he says he has a right to say what he did (which he does) but then goes on to say we dont have a right to arms. maybe Bob should read a little farther down the list of amendments.....

 

[EL1227]

To Costas, Whitlock, NBC, and the NFL ...

Whitlocks comments are getting even more rediculous....

"I believe the NRA is the new KKK," Whitlock said. "And that the arming of so many black youths, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people that obviously don’t have our best interests

Source:
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...availability-of-guns-makes-mayhem-easier?lite

And any other sports commentators, left-wing bloggers, and wanna-be pundits flapping their jaws ... Why Can Costas Speak, But Not Limbaugh? As a counter to a Salon Magazine's hit piece ... Why can Limbaugh speak, but not Costas?

In 2009, when NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell idiotically said Rush Limbaugh would not be welcome as an NFL owner because “we’re all held to a high standard here.”

Limbaugh got fired from his ESPN gig.

What's good for a conservative goose is equally good for liberal ganders ... IMHO.

 

[swinokur]

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[FONT=&quot]SAF Starts Petition Demanding Apology for Jason Whitlock's "NRA [/FONT][FONT=&quot]
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[FONT=&quot] In response to a recent op-ed by FOX Sports' columnist Jason Whitlock and a subsequent statement that "I [Whitlock] did not go as far as I'd like to go because my thoughts on the NRA and America's gun culture - I believe the NRA is the new KKK," SAF has started a petition demanding an immediate and public apology to America's gun owners.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot] The petition, captioned "Jason Whitlock, Bob Costas, NBC Sports, FOX Sports, and the NFL: Apologize to America's millions of law-abiding and peaceful gun owners!", seeks 100,000+ pro-Second Amendment signers.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot] During the halftime segment of the NFL's December 2 Sunday Night Football broadcast on NBC, NBC Sports' announcer Bob Costas quoted Whitlock's column and blamed the murder of Kasandra Perkins and suicide death of Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher on America's "gun culture" of law-abiding gun owners and civil rights activists.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot] SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb said that Whitlock's recent column is "ludicrous" and Costas' on-air commentary "shameful." [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot] "The point Whitlock misses completely is that Jovan Belcher - a massive NFL linebacker - had every intention of murdering the mother of his 3-month-old child, one way or another. Had Perkins had a firearm herself, perhaps their daughter would not be an orphan today. Regardless, America's millions of law-abiding and peaceful gun owners don't deserve to be blamed for this tragic circumstance and it's appalling that we would be singled out as Whitlock and Costas have done."[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot] "These outrageous comments by Costas and Whitlock show how detached from the American mainstream the anti-civil rights element really is," said Brandon Combs, SAF Director of Programs and Outreach. "Millions of people across the U.S. choose to defend their lives and those of their family with common semi-automatic handguns, the same kind Mr. Costas doesn't see any need for. Thankfully, the Constitution takes his firearms policy preferences off the table."[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot] "Guns save lives, thousands of them, every day. Indicting Constitutionally-protected instruments of self defense - and a majority of Americans who participate in our long history and culture of private gun ownership - for the deaths of Perkins and Belcher is simply wrong-headed and irresponsible."[/FONT]
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[webb297]

Fox news has put up a poll asking if we agree with Costas, I think we should let them know how we feel:

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/jason-whitlock-bob-costas-talk-gun-control-kansas-city-chiefs-jovan-belcher-tragedy-120412

 

[iobidder]

He's a great sports announcer, and so he should stick to sports and get out of politics.

 

[EL1227]

TownHall.com is all a'buzz ...

Katie Pavlich (of F&F book fame) - Clarifying America's Gun Culture

The first gun culture is deeply seeded in American history and her founding. Founding Fathers like George Washington understood that an armed citizenry would prevent government tyranny, which is why we have the Second Amendment. This is a concept rapper Ice-T understands but sadly doesn’t promote in his songs.

“It’s legal in the United States, it’s part of our constitution. You know, that’s the last defense against tyranny,” Ice-T said in a local television interview last summer.

The other gun culture in America can be found in the inner city of Chicago, Washington D.C., New York City, Los Angeles and others. Ironically, violent gun culture is found within gangs in cities with the strictest gun laws. It is the same culture promoted in Hollywood films made by liberals, glorified by rappers whose music is worshiped in violent gang plagued neighborhoods and disrespectfully joked about at NBA parties.

So which 'gun culture' are Whitlock, Costas, and others referring to ?

And Brent Bozell of MRC - The Costas Anti-Gun Lecture Series

Costas on Tuesday replied it was a "mistake" to mention gun control on air Sunday because his choice of words "left it open for too much miscommunication." That alone was bad enough, because there was no miscommunication. What followed was a doubling down on arrogance ... {by comparing the overwhelming outcry of much deserved criticism to racism.}

Followed by ...

Intoxicated by the attention, Whitlock tried to out-crazy Costas.

In summation:

Some liberals are just insufferable bores. Can't they please let us watch football, and not their self-implosion?

 

[JOESTEELER]

I think that Costas and Whitlock both missed the issue. It 's not about guns the message should have been about Domestic Violence.

 

[EL1227]

Fox news has put up a poll asking if we agree with Costas, I think we should let them know how we feel:

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/jason-whitlock-bob-costas-talk-gun-control-kansas-city-chiefs-jovan-belcher-tragedy-120412

78% Don't agree with Costas and Whitlock ...

Listen to their Podcast and Comment ...

 

[EL1227]

I think that Costas and Whitlock both missed the issue. It 's not about guns the message should have been about Domestic Violence.

Sorry to disagree, but it's about the NFL and the 'sports commentators' turning a blind eye to a major problem in their own back yard. To compete in the NFL, you have to endure tremendous injuries and pain, and drugs are readily supplied to 'help' you to do that. Head injuries be damned, get out there an play, or be benched then ridiculed by the sports media.

The players all knew the job was dangerous when they took it, but Costas, Whitlock, and the NFL are trying to deflect their own culpability by blaming an inanimate object and the 'gun culture'.

And when THIS happens, will they blame sports gambling or Smith and Wesson ?

 

[booker]

 

[eruby]

He's a great sports announcer, and so he should stick to sports and get out of politics.

I have to disagree, I think he's a crappy announcer.

He is all about making himself the story, not the event itself. YMMV

Red Barber and Vin Scully weep.

 

[EL1227]

CNN has jumped the shark ...

Manhood, football and suicide
Kevin Powell, Former Democratic Congressional candidate in New York, who was also a cast member on MTV’s original season of “The Real World” ... so that makes him an expert on manliness
His contention:

It’s America’s culture of manliness that led Belcher to blow away his girlfriend and then turn the gun on himself. That culture includes men hiding their emotion, machoness, and homophobia.

Seriously ???

I guess that's our problem here on MDS ... We do not talk about much of anything, except sports, women, sex ... and guns. Everything else we routinely ignore ... or repress until we explode and shoot someone. At least that's what Costas, Whitlock, and now Powell would want everyone to believe.

 

[iobidder]

I have to disagree, I think he's a crappy announcer.

He is all about making himself the story, not the event itself. YMMV

Red Barber and Vin Scully weep.

Well we agree to disagree

 

[eruby]

I have to disagree, I think he's a crappy announcer.

He is all about making himself the story, not the event itself. YMMV

Red Barber and Vin Scully weep.

Well we agree to disagree

And not a darn thing wrong with that good sir.

 

[wilcam47]

foxnews had something on last night...some di*k wad wanted to have all guns banned because that would have stopped the crime from happening luckily the other 5 people on the cast jumped in on him and I swear one called him an idiot even the 2 gals on there said it was a societal thing not a inanimate objects fault...

 

[Mr H]

foxnews had something on last night...some di*k wad wanted to have all guns banned because that would have stopped the crime from happening luckily the other 5 people on the cast jumped in on him and I swear one called him an idiot even the 2 gals on there said it was a societal thing not a inanimate objects fault...

Sounds like you've had a Bob Beckel moment!!

He's an unapologetic lib and a longtime political stalwart, but generally means well... just a bit hardnosed on some subjects.

 

[wilcam47]

Sounds like you've had a Bob Beckel moment!!

He's an unapologetic lib and a longtime political stalwart, but generally means well... just a bit hardnosed on some subjects.

at one point I wanted to throw my remote across the room...but if that was the guy he definitely is a liberal idiot...one lady said if the guy wanted to kill this gal and didnt have guns he would have choked her to death...the liberal didnt say squat....

 

[EL1227]

at one point I wanted to throw my remote across the room...but if that was the guy he definitely is a liberal idiot...one lady said if the guy wanted to kill this gal and didnt have guns he would have choked her to death...the liberal didnt say squat....

Or stomped her head in with his football spikes on ... THEN what would they have wanted to ban ?

 

[hodgepodge]

As Rush Limbaugh said, we shouldn't blame Bob Costas. It's the microphone's fault.