Sunday, December 2, 2012

Bob Costas Uses Sunday Night Football to Push Gun Control



Liberal Bob Costas got his two cents in tonight during Sunday Night Football. At halftime, after bringing attention to the tragedy in Kansas City yesterday, Bob Costas decided it was his turn to give his thoughts on the Jovan Belcher murder/suicide at Arrowhead.

Costas told Americans on national television that hand guns serve no purchase and these deaths need to be blamed on America's gun culture.

Costas read the following from KC journalist Jason Whitlock:


I would argue that your rationalizations speak to how numb we are in this society to gun violence and murder. We’ve come to accept our insanity. We’d prefer to avoid seriously reflecting upon the absurdity of the prevailing notion that the second amendment somehow enhances our liberty rather than threatens it.

 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?

 Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead.

 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.


No, these deaths happened not because of a gun. They happened because of a human. A human who wasn't logically thinking about all the people affected by his actions including his baby girl. To make Sunday Night Football a soap box to push gun control ignores the truth about how Americans put too much importance on things that don't matter while pushing things like God out of our culture.

Bob, Belcher could have just as easily performed a Junior Seau to kill this woman, putting her in a car on a frantic drive over a cliff.


Posted by Bungalow Bill

35 comments:

  1. Here is the message I sent to nbcsportshelp@nbcuni.com concerning Bob Costas' comments. Please feel free to share this. I pray it goes viral.

    "Bob Costas' comments favoring anti-gun agendas during halftime of the Philadelphia Eagles vs. Dallas Cowboys football game on Sunday, December 2, 2012, were not well accepted. It is the right of every American to own a gun as stated in the Second Amendment of the United States of America Constitution. You may say that it is his right under the First Amendment to speak as he will, but when it contradicts another inalienable right provided by our Constitution, it is then rendered void. This further proves that the media is out to help the extreme political left agenda of gun control in the United States. If this is not the position of your company, Mr. Costas should issue an immediate and public retraction of his statements. If this is not done, then we will have proof that you as the media are aidin
    g in the fall of the greatest country to ever exist. Our Constitution provides us with the freedoms that we have. If the Second Amendment is "unconstitutional," then would that not make all of the Bill of Rights unconstitutional? Then where would we be as a country, and what would happen to our freedoms?

    Second, to agree that if he didn't have a gun that they would both be alive is ludicrous. There are myriads of other ways to kill someone outside of using a gun. What a stupid and ignorant train of thought!

    This message will be posted on Facebook along with your e-mail address. I pray and hope that it goes viral and you are inundated with e-mails showing support for the freedoms our country has worked and fought so hard to have."

    ReplyDelete

  2. Unbelievable! Jovan was a sick man...if not a gun then sadly some other way. Bob Costas you are wrong...people kill people!

    ReplyDelete

  3. Amen! I have already blasted NBC over this.

    ReplyDelete

  4. Lost all respect for bob costas...

    ReplyDelete

  5. Guns do not kill people. People kill people. I am so disappointed in Bob Costas.

    ReplyDelete

  6. How do we get a message to the NFL and NBC that this was outrageous and unacceptable?

    ReplyDelete

  7. This totally blew my mind! I wonder if this tragedy would have happen with a knife and not a gun would there be a call for a ban on utensils??

    ReplyDelete

  8. How do we get the message to NBC and the NFL that this was outrageous and unacceptable?

    ReplyDelete

  9. How do you get a message to both NBC and the NFL that this commentary was outrageous and unacceptable?

    ReplyDelete

  10. I could not believe the comment made by Bob Costa on national television. It is ridiculous to blame these deaths on guns.
    The gun did not go off by itself. We as humans have to take responsibility for our actions. Mr. Belcher not the gun decided to take his girlfriends life and then sometime later take his own life. He has to be held accountable for his own actions.

    ReplyDelete

  11. If he didn't own a gun he still could kill her. Knife, rope, bat, etc. It's like blaming a spoon on making Rosie O'Donnel fat. You can't. It's the person who makes the decision, not the object.

    ReplyDelete

  12. Posted to NBC FB page:

    Bob Costas of NBC Sports, all I can say is BS!!!! Yes it is a tragedy that he took his life, and the life of others, but the person behind the gun is the problem, not the firearm or the laws that allow us citizens of the United States of America to possess, use in a responsible manner, and defend our Liberties give you the right on national television to blame the handgun. Screw you NBC!!!

    ReplyDelete

  13. Costas comment about gun control on Sunday night football is very stupid. It would be like a law abiding gun owner making a comment about the super rich sports commentators paying more taxes to bail this country out!!!

    ReplyDelete

  14. shameless liberal plug..if an apology is not issued i am done with the NFL AND NBC'

    ReplyDelete

  15. Guns kill people! And Pencils mis-spell words. Forks made me fat.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies

    1. how true...and cars should be banned because they too are dangerous and cause many deaths.

      Delete

  16. Maybe he will bless us with his views on abortion or Obama care next week!
    I have emailed NBC blasting him too!

    ReplyDelete

  17. Bob Costas really surprised me tonight. And using a sporting event to lobby his agenda? Not good, not good at all. I am offended as a sportsman, NFL fan, and a fellow outdoorsman by his comments. The whole thing was just bad timing as well. No more Bob Costas for me.

    ReplyDelete

  18. THISIS MY POST TO SNF TOTAL ACCESS WEBSITE: WHAT IS WRONG WITH NBC AND THE ANTIGUN CRUSADER BOB COSTAS? DOES ANYONE REMEMBER WHEN A YOUNG MAN USED A CAN OF GASOLINE TO SET FIRE TO A NIGHTCLUB IN THE PUERTO RICAN DISTRICT IN NEW YORK? HE KILLED OVER 80 PEOPLE. NO ONE BLAMED THEGASOLINE FOR THIS TRAGEDY. WHY DO THESE PEOPLE INSIST ON THROWING A DAMPER ON MY ABILITYTO ENJOY SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL? THIS IS TYPICALOF MAIN STREAM MEDIA AND THEIR MISGUIDED EFFORT TO BLAME THE INSTRUMENTS OF DEATH INSTEADOF THE MIND, HEART AND HANDS THAT CAUSED THIS HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. SNF STICK TO FOOTBALL AND KEEP YOUR POLITICAL VIEWS TO YOURSELF.



    ReplyDelete

  19. NBCs phone number 212-664-4444

    ReplyDelete

  20. Hey Bungalow Bill, Good for Bob Costas and the KC reporter whom he quoted. the gun lobby blogs and pages lit up after he spoke, and during a game in Texas no less, do you grasp the irony. but the truth is what he said was accurate, Guns do cause an unnecessary escalation to conflicts.

    ReplyDelete

  21. I will do my part to make this go viral, GUNS DO NOT KILL, PEOPLE KILL!

    ReplyDelete

  22. Absolutely absurd! Only a moron would say such a thing!

    ReplyDelete

  23. No more resspect for Bob Costas. Guns do not kill people nor do knives or chocking hands or a blow to the head with a hammer. They all simpliy require an action and a desicision that takes place to carry out an act.Maybe we should scrap every thing our constitution says and start over and maybe your idiotic thoughts should be left to the left.

    ReplyDelete

  24. Had to turn off the game.Bad move.

    ReplyDelete

  25. Thank you for the NBC email address. This was what I sent them...

    I am shocked that during this Kansas City Chiefs tragedy that Mr. Costas used this event and Sunday Night Football halftime to promote his personal anti gun opinions. The hand gun was not what killed Ms. Perkins and Mr. Belcher. Poor anger management, perhaps steroids or other issues plagued Mr. Belcher as he made a fatal decision which involved a hand gun.

    If you want to talk about a societies overindulgence in violence, perhaps the first thing I need to do is turn my TV off to football.

    ReplyDelete

  26. You can leave feedback at NBC and the NFL. You can google NBC or NFL contacts and you can leave negative feedback. Half the people at this game are carry guns.

    ReplyDelete

  27. Boycott Costas/NBC sponsors, Toyota, AT&T, Zales as I am.

    ReplyDelete

  28. He is not even a good football play by play man, what makes him think I care about his personal opinion. When will the other side get equal time. He needs to lose his job.

    ReplyDelete

  29. Costas is a little know-it-all twerp. "But here, wrote Jason Whitlock, is what I believe. If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.''Really? This guy shot his girlfriend 9 times. He wanted her dead. Costas or Whitlock don't think that maybe Belcher would have used his hands, a knife, a baseball bat or run her down with his car if a gun had not been available? Maybe they didn't hear about the guy stabbing his Dad's girlfriend then shooting his Dad with a compound bow and killing himself with a knife? Where there is a will there is a way. Costas' liberal anti-gun rant on national television just makes him look silly. But, then again, I'm sure that is something that Costas has grown used to.

    ReplyDelete

  30. Defensive gun use (DGU's) estimates range from between 800,000 to 2.5 million annually with the best guess being at least 1.5 million times/year that someone successfully defends themselves or others using a gun. Do away with the ability of law abiding citizens to protect themselves with firearms and there would be up to 1.5 million more people killed each year due to gun control, Mr. Costas. Then the new mantra would be, "Guns don't kill people, gun control kills people."

    ReplyDelete

  31. Your a fucking idiot Bob. People will obtain weapons either way dip shit. So we should take everyones guns that don't kill people? Maybe we should get rid of tv so people will get off their fat asses and do something. Maybe we should get rid of football because it makes me want to smash people. The best we can do is get rid of the fuck tards that come along. Would you want to get rid of pencels if the guy stabed his girl with one?

    ReplyDelete

  32. Does anyone really believe Costas gets a ninety minute segment during SNF halftime to say whatever he wants? That was ok'd by the NFL. It was a bait and switch to create a diversion from what they saw coming... Another incident that would bring focus to the head injury issue. Want to blast someone? Go at the source. The NFL!

    ReplyDelete

  33. How many of the hand gun-owning commenters on here are part of a "well organized milita"? The second amendment does not extend to private citizens as it was written and all Bob Costas was saying that our society would be safer if hand guns were removed from the equation which is difficult to dispute.

    ReplyDelete

Sorry about the captcha. I hate them just like you, but the spambots have gotten ridiculous.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)
"Clay, I am proud to have made your acquaintance, and also know you are a committed patriot who's not just messin' around! Thank you!" - Doug Burlison, Springfield, MO City Councilman

Join the Constitution Party!

I Took the Founders Red Pill!
Bungalow Bill's Conservative Wisdom: As featured on Politico, The Daily Paul, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Drudge Report, Breitbart Big Government, Michael Savage, Western Front America, Newsmax, KY3, KSPR 33, KOLR 10, Alan Keyes is Loyal to Liberty, Lucianne, Infowars,Prison Planet, Speigel, Willie Nelson.com, Vincent David Jericho, Nick Reed, Truth About IB, and David Icke.com.