The tragedy of the murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs player Jovan Belcher prompted sportscaster Bob Costas to make gun comments during the Sunday Night Football half-time show. On Saturday morning, Belcher murdered his girlfriend, and mother of his child, Kasandra Perkins, shooting her nine times with a handgun. He then went to the stadium, thanked the coaches for giving him a chance to play and shot himself in the parking lot.. Sports writer Jason Whitlock wrote a commentary about how this was the result of America′s ′gun culture′, which Bob Costas repeated in his anti-gun speech. But was it really the lack of gun control laws behind this hideous act? Or could it be something more basic such as the instant wealth and privilege sports stars obtain? Couple that with booze, drugs, and plenty of women and we see the pattern of the ′spoiled culture′, advocated by Liberal Progressives and symbolized by Barack Hussein Obama.
Yes, naturally I am blaming Obama and his pals in the Progressive movement. Obama wins a Noble Peace Prize for doing absolutely nothing! Javon Belcher really did not accomplish very much either in his life. Yet, he got himself a nice big paycheck, a pampered lifestyle and all the booze, drugs and women he could consume. Quite a bit for a guy barely 25 years old.
The initial story of how he got into an argument with Miss Perkins because she stayed out late Friday night is also falling apart. We now learn that it was Javon who was out on the town with another woman. How he was so smashed on booze that even when a policeman found him asleep in his Bentley, the cop gave him a pass and just told him to go home. Maybe Jovan did argue with Perkins about her being out late, but what about him? Where does his responsibility begin and end in this tragedy?
The anti-gun crowd is always with us and will use any event to muster stricter gun laws. Yet, as we all know, wherever gun laws are the most strict, crime is much higher, particularly violent crime. Whitlock, and Costas, believe that gun ownership serves no useful purpose nor makes anyone safer. Try telling that to the six million Jews who were unable to defend themselves from the tyranny of Adolph Hitler! That is why our Founding Fathers wrote the Second Amendment. Gun ownership is not just for hunting or shooting paper targets. It is the nation′s hedge against a potential tyrant.
So Bob Costas and his gun comments about Javon Belcher are simply ridiculous. Jason Whitlock is a fool to think that Kasandra Perkins might still be alive if Belcher had no handgun or no gun culture. Maybe she might be, but she was clearly in danger of domestic violence from Belcher given his behavior. Gun control is not the issue, personal responsibility is! The Kansas City Chiefs player was on a path of doom and what he really needed was a taste of old fashioned, traditional values and some common sense. Something the anti-gun control crowd have little of.
December 4th, 2012 at 11:26 am
” The Government shouldn’t Control Any Gun you
Don’t Need a Trailer Hitch to Move ”
. . . . . . . Pat Buchanan
December 4th, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Greg Gutfeld had a good one today.
“Bob Costas makes his living off concussions and broken limbs”
So really Bob, whatcha ya gonna blame for that ?
December 4th, 2012 at 5:46 pm
Reminds me of an ad for Dunham’s (a local sports equipment chain) this past Sunday.
Athletic shoes, golf clubs and a selection semi-automatic rifles. One is called a Patrolman’s Carbine and has 30 rounds. Shouldn’t “patrolmen” be the one’s carrying those?
Is was under the hunting section.
Hunting? Hunting what?
December 4th, 2012 at 5:54 pm
” Shouldn’t “patrolmen” be the one’s carrying those?
Is was under the hunting section.
Hunting? Hunting what?”
Ever hunt Boar ?
Have a Grizzly attack your camp ?
Or had a Mongoose come after your crawfish catch !!
When they rush you, you want more than one or two in the chamber, buddy !
December 4th, 2012 at 6:19 pm
I live in Michigan and while it is possible to encounter dangerous animals I am going to go out on a limb and guess that devoting a quarter of a page of color ad space to market a number of semi-automatic rifles to the people defending themselves against attack from feral pigs or black bears is probably not a wise business decision.
Hey, I could be wrong and I can only go on my own personal experience. I know people that own these weapons and they never find themselves outside of an urban area (well, except for the one’s in “training”, remember we are home to the Michigan Militia) and most of them aren’t committing felonies (although some are, I grew up with a number of people that are in…ummm…motorcycle organizations).
December 4th, 2012 at 7:21 pm
Buzz, theres handguns that can carry 17 rounds.
I’ve dealt with a lot of bikers, specially Southern Cal.,they’re the last of your worries.
We hunt wild pig in the islands, I’ve been run up a tree before. Its not business sonny, its sport, and survival.
You wanna use a pee shooter, crossbow, go hunt deer.
December 4th, 2012 at 7:22 pm
Theres .22 rifles and others taking clips with over a hundred rounds.
Thats when I give second looks
December 4th, 2012 at 7:31 pm
You are right, sonny, the motorcycle guys don’t worry me, because I know them and because they tend to go after one another (in fact, there is some lethal feuding going on right now in the Detroit area).
The militia types, however, (I used to call on doctors in Decker, where McVeigh was hanging around) and those are the people that scare me.
I am always afraid of the “righteous”.
December 4th, 2012 at 8:26 pm
“You are right, sonny, the motorcycle guys don’t worry me, because I know them and because they tend to go after one another (in fact, there is some lethal feuding going on right now in the Detroit area).”
In LA I was the best polisher, chroming and fabricator of Harley parts around.
Now I have a shop in Honolulu, no competition and still have my Ca. clientele.
If you had parts from a 66 pan head buried in your yard for 40 years I’d make em look new, like diamonds.
Your problem in Mich is not those riding bikes, its the prevalent militia culture mentality.
Lotta militias in the mid west neck of the woods.
The majority of bikers and gangs carry small arms, they fit better on bikes.
The difference between bikers gangs and the others is that the good part of them served.
Most of the others are just punks.
December 4th, 2012 at 8:28 pm
“I am always afraid of the “righteous”.
Then stop being a liberal, and leave my vocabulary alone.
You’ll be more at peace with yourself.
December 4th, 2012 at 10:38 pm
Right to weaponry is part of our American culture dating back to the pre-revolutionary days when the oppressive government (then British) tried to confiscate them from American subjects. It was such an important concept that it is the only possession other than the general idea of “property” that is explicitly encoded in the Constitution. Counter-cultural liberals never really get the historical and cultural importance of them.
December 5th, 2012 at 6:21 am
Buzz, I checked out the weekly circular ads for Dunham’s in my area (Metro Duh-troit) and other than a few shotguns and a couple bolt-action rifles, all of the advertized semi-auto rifles were .22 cal. Not exactly something you are going to go to war with, even if it comes with a 30-round mag.
Now, if they were selling a Beowulf .50 caliber…,
December 5th, 2012 at 8:08 am
We’ll legalize all drugs. That way when the tyranny hits the fan no one will know.
December 5th, 2012 at 9:58 am
Yeah, I realized they were .22’s, but there are people that think they are more deadly, especially on head shots.
Plus, ripping off a quick 30 will is certainly lethal.
Simply put, what is the purpose of these weapons for most people?
Hunting? Doubtful, except in rare cases (with the exception of hunting rural road signs).
Self-defense? You don’t often hear any self-defense stories that feature a 30 round semi-automatic.
So what exactly is the purpose of these weapons and why can someone merely walk in and buy one with almost no restriction?
Are we in some immanent danger that I am not aware of (apart from Doomsday Prepper insanity)?
December 5th, 2012 at 10:20 am
“Simply put, what is the purpose of these weapons for most people?”
These right wing gun nuts want one thing.
They want to walk out the door each morning knowing they can kill people if they want to. They want the power.
December 5th, 2012 at 10:30 am
“They want to walk out the door each morning knowing they can kill people if they want to. They want the power.”
You’re a idiot
December 5th, 2012 at 10:42 am
“They want to walk out the door each morning knowing they can kill people if they want to. They want the power.”
That make perfect sense to a guy who blew his own brains out.
If you morons havent figured it out.
Our right to bear arms is based the ability to protect ourselves from tyranny.
And we know these leftist loons need to disarm us or they’ll never get that last nail in the coffin.
How is this true ?
What leads one to believe they only want firearms in the hands of a *”highly functional government “? *(sarcasm)
Read up on Obamas global poverty (S2433)tax with all its conditions.
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Latest Major Action: 4/24/2008: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 718.
http://kilosparksitup.blogspot.com/2008/02/more-on-barack-obama-s2433-global.html
More on Barack Obama’s S.2433 : Global Poverty Act
We know for a fact that this bill will cost America $845 billion above and beyond what America already spends on global aid in the next thirteen years. America will be locked in to giving .7 percent of the U.S. gross national product. That in itself is scary enough, but there is way more to Obama’s bill. It also locks us into United Nations Millennium Summit. Cliff Kincaid from Accuracy in Media is all over this bill. He writes-(Underlined by me)
The bill institutes the United Nations Millennium Summit goals as the benchmarks for U.S. spending.
“It is time the United States makes it a priority of our foreign policy to meet this goal and help those who are struggling day to day,” a statement issued by supporters, including Obama, said.
Specifically, it would “declare” that the official U.S. policy is to eliminate global poverty, that the president is “required” to “develop and implement” a strategy to reach that goal and requires that the U.S. efforts be “specific and measurable.”
Kincaid said that after cutting through all of the honorable-sounding goals in the plan, the bottom line is that the legislation would mandate the 0.7 percent of the U.S. GNP as “official development assistance.”
“In addition to seeking to eradicate poverty, that (U.N.) declaration commits nations to banning ’small arms and light weapons’ and ratifying a series of treaties, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (global warming treaty), the Convention of Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Convention of the Rights of the Child,” he said.
Those U.N. protocols would make U.S. law on issues ranging from the 2nd Amendment to energy usage and parental rights all subservient to United Nations whims.
Kincaid also reported Jeffrey Sachs, who runs the “Millennium Project,” confirms a U.N. plan to force the U.S. to pay 0.7 percent of GNP would add about $65 billion a year to what the U.S. already donates overseas.
Of course its going nowhere, but shows the intent with clarity.
December 5th, 2012 at 1:16 pm
For What It’s Worth :
Bob Costas will be on the O’Reilly Factor tonight.
( Bill demonstrated, a few weeks ago, that he knows less about guns than my 83 year old mother )
Let’s hope he is doing a little ‘Show Prep’.
December 5th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
“Bill demonstrated, a few weeks ago, that he knows less about guns than my 83 year old mother”
Thats scary, dude claims hes packin.
Of course, if he shot his foot i’d be his fault just like if he shot Colmes i’d be the guns fault.
Bills even more irritating when he talks about pot.
He watched Reefer Madness one day and that was it.
December 5th, 2012 at 2:01 pm
Micky !
I wish I could remember the details.
Bill was arguing with some guy about AR-15’s and AK-47’s and it was Horrifying To Watch.
Bill doesn’t usually blunder in to something like this. I thought it would never end. He didn’t have a clue. His opponent even looked embarrassed for him. lololol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXTT3A0B1Vs
December 5th, 2012 at 2:13 pm
RonM, Democrats commit most of the gun violence in this country. Inner cities in the blue states are just out of control.
December 5th, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Yeah, even I couldnt watch the whole thing
I like Bill on a lot of things but he clearly knows more about the Colorado massacre than he does the laws on the books and the system, or the lingo for that matter.
Chaffetz is not one to open his yap unless he knows the deal.
All I know is this.
If the fed collapses and were looking at even some form of organized anarchy the fed is the last group I want to only hold arms.
I cant see why anyone cannot understand that.
Theres people on the left that both want to legalize every drug under the sun and outlaw guns.
No one wants an armed nation of tweakers.
But, you have guys on the right who want all drugs to be illegal, but support broader terms of gun ownership.
Point is, you’ll never get folks to give up their guns and drugs but we should pay more attention to who gets them and who doesnt because its the hand of the individual that bears the responsibility.
If we actually do end up defending ourselves against a tyrannical or dysfunctional government,an AK with 30-60 rounds and ammo purchase limits aint gunna cut it.
Ask anyone in the Middle East.
Their gun laws are ridiculous and they still get what they need
December 6th, 2012 at 5:57 am
O’Reilly is an idiot! On Monday he said that all gun crimes should be federalized with mandatory 10 year sentences. Like we should give Washington more authority is bad enough. Pun intended, I think the jury is still out on whether or not mandatory sentencing for any crime is really working.
December 6th, 2012 at 6:00 am
Costas showed himself to be a real fool, he was a deer in the headlights of the giant Leprechaun. Wonder if O’Reilly made Costas pee on himself?
December 6th, 2012 at 8:52 am
O’Reilly is among the worst interviewers I have ever witnessed.
He consistently asks a question, but never lets the guest respond. Especially if they aren’t “playing along”. He puts words in the guest’s mouth and cuts them off in mid-sentence.
It simply makes “him” look inept, not the guest.