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NBC’s Bob Costas Interrupts Sunday Night Football With Gun Control Lecture

Dec. 2, 2012 11:28pm Erica Ritz

UPDATES:

Jason Whitlock, the columnist who inspired Costas’ gun control lecture, has now claimed that the “NRA is the new KKK.” Read about it here.

Fellow sportscaster Jim Gray also offered an endorsement of Costas’ comments during a Monday appearance on Fox. See what he had to add about gun control — and also how fast he backtracked — here.

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NBC Sportscaster Bob Costas took a detour from his usual discussion of athletics during Sunday Night Football to lecture his audience on gun control.

Discussing the shocking murder-suicide that rocked the NFL over the weekend, when Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend and then committed suicide in front of his coach and general manager, Costas argued that domestic disputes are more likely to end in such a fashion if the government does not limit people’s access to firearms.

Costas said:

Writer Jason Whitlock, with whom I do not always agree but today said it so well that we may as well just quote or paraphrase from the end of his article.

Our current gun culture, Whitlock wrote, 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.’

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.

In the coming days, Jovan Belcher’s actions and their possible connection to football will be analyzed. Who knows? 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.

Here’s the video, via MRC-TV:

Twitchy captured the flabbergasted and impatient tweets of viewers:

Bob Costas Gives Gun Control Lecture During NFL Halftime

(Photo: Twitchy)

Here are some others:

(Photo: Twitter/@Will_Antonin)

(Photo: Twitter/@JeromeEHudson)

(Photo: Twitter/@ElishaNEWS)

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(Photo: Twitter/@lafayette41)

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In CONTROL, Glenn Beck presents a passionate, fact-based case for guns that reveals why gun control isn’t really about controlling guns at all; it’s about controlling us. Find out more HERE.

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Comments (636)

Chancellor
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:56pm
Bobby you should stick to something you know about…….and it isn’t football either……..

But just think bobby when they don’t allow you to protect yourself anymore all us bad folk who believe in the 2nd Amendment will be coming to your house for cash and cars.

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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 12:55am
  I’m surprised the numbnut lib didn’t plug the city gun by back program.
  
  Guns for flu shots & gift cards in Mass.
  
  http://cnsnews.com/blog/gregory-gwyn-williams-jr/city-give-us-your-guns-get-free-flu-shot-and-wegmans-gift-card
  
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- Ditto Head
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 1:39am
  Like Costas doesn’t have an armed security guard protecting him at any given moment?
  What a hypocrite.
  
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- KyleD
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 1:51am
  I can’t wait to hear what Rush says about this.
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 2:26am
  Bob Costas is an expert. Listen to Bob Costas and his “chosen people” controlled Juden NBC network. Listen to your handlers, the Judens and their Marxist Media. Gentiles are to turn in your weapons immediately.
- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 2:32am
  Of all the sports casters, Costas has annoyed me…never knew why…just can’t imagine him in any type of sports.
  
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- oberhammer
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 3:11am
  Boycott NBC. I have not watched anything on NBC in 2 years. It feels great to boycott these communists.
  
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- ron2win
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 4:09am
  Another thing about these boufords ,I heard on the radio ,his coach saying what a tragedy this was .A TRAGEDY ! The guy murdered his wife, a young woman with a three month old child. He murdered her ,left his daughter parentless and then shot him self ,in front of his coach.The tragedy here is this idiot met his wife and had a child with her .The tragedy is about his dead wife and parentless child .The tragedy here is that a self centered ,heartless idiot took an innocent woman’s life ,then left the stage of life ,for others to to clean up.
  
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- RabidPatriot
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 4:54am
  There were quite a few nuggets of ivory tower liberal gun ignorance falling out of his face during his lecture. It was outrageous to say that both of these people would still be alive if handguns were banned. Fools like this actually believe that murder-suicides was invented after the invention of the handgun. If he was honest, he would say, “I am afraid of minorities and conservatives having guns and I wish the government would raid homes and take them away from every citizen!”
  
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- Baddoggy
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 4:55am
  Take away all security with guns for NBC. All of it! Let them fend for themselves against evil doers. They will pray for the day they had a gun then! What an idiot!! Liberals have no brains.
  
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- WATER-THE-TREE
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 5:28am
  Someone needs to hit him in the head with a brick so he can cry about less access to bricks, stupid bastard!
  
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 5:56am
  He needed Bryant Gunble there with him, for even MORE credibility. BWAHAHAHHAhahhhhaaha………
  
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- BreeZee
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 6:04am
  Look at the age of most these perps, from columbine to the colorado theatre shooting to this guy.
  Because of low self esteem, they lowering standards that did nothing but lower the standard which in turn lowered the self esteem more.. Because of not having to pay the consequences there is no disclipine. Because of no GOD there is no morals or standards. Because they ok’d more violence on tv, movies and video games they live in a unrealistic fantasy world of killing is ok and because they have been entitled and caudled they have no mental skills for problem solving, no critical thinking, it’s stunted their maturity and they can no longer handle and think through emotional problems.
  
  Thank you progressives for your human ruining policies.
  
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- TieDyeTim
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 6:31am
  Amen. Bob Costas: stick to what you know, not what you feel or believe. I suppose there’s no way she would have been strangled or stabbed. Should we then ban kitchen knives?
  
  Get the facts: Hand gund do indeed keep people safer.
  
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- Rightallalong
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 6:38am
  Bobby is just another whining media elite that doesn’t have a clue how real people live.
  
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- Quiata
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 6:49am
  Thanks, Bob “Soft-Focus” Costas, for turning a terrible, awful tragedy into a platform for your personal political views. Thanks for using the venue of your sports broadcasting job, sitting in front of TV cameras with a microphone in your hand, to inform us of the errors of our ways.
  
  Never mind the fact that domestic violence caused these deaths. Never mind that a knife, fist, or hurled chair could have ended that poor young woman’s life. No, according to “Bob”, we need to discuss firearms… not the hidden strife, nor the violent, improperly channeled impulses behind this tragic ending.
  
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- chalkdust
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 6:52am
  “Handguns do not enhance our safety”
  
  Sure they do. I can tell you a hand gun has enhanced my safety. In fact, were it not for a hand gun and my desire to live, this post would be coming to you from beyond the grave.
  
  To Bob, I would just be an acceptable loss. I reject such notions as complete an utter gibberish from Costas or any other fool who thinks somehow banning guns is the right thing to do when a quasi sports figure murders his wife, then kills himself. It’s the height of stupidity.
  
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- Banter
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 6:56am
  Bob Costas is a poster girl for liberal pansies.
  
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- Quiata
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:34am
  Oh yeah, and how much does nearly two minutes of air time during the Toyota Half-Time Show COST??? Bob Costas burns up well over a minute and a half with his abstract diatribe and NBC lets this go?
  
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- Cataclysm
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:46am
  hey look the next Keith Olberman
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:55am
  He is just one of the reasons I quit watching the NFL. Perhaps this dimwit should know all the facts before he rushes in to blame a gun. The man had a history of head injuries (go figure) problems with alcohol and drug usage (go figure). But no none of that is even mentioned here. I guess the gun made him an alcohol and drug abuser. And I guess the gun knocked him in the head so many times he just couldn’t control his rage. Read the latest article on Drudge if you want to know the truth. I used to love watching the NFL but now that they have turned it into a false religion I steer clear of it. The NFL analysts and announcers are nothing but a bunch of overblown, full of themselves, gossipy, self worshipers. Anyone who is a bonafide supporter of the 2nd amendment that will still tune into Sunday Night football after this is a fool. For that matter if you tune into any NFL program you are now a fool because with Bob Costas doing this on Sunday Night NFL football that means the NFL endorses his position. Do you really want to support that? Not me brother. Not me.
  
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- obfuscatenot
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 8:01am
  Dear Mr. (St. Louis guy) Costas,
  Please sir illustrate your point and your faith in humanity. Simply walk around East St. Louis by yourself-any time of day without protection. Oh, wait that’s in Illinois so conceal and carry isn’t available to law abiding folks. Illustrates my point even better…….handguns SAVE lives.
  
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- francisco
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 8:09am
  Everytime one of these wizards of smart decide to put their opinion out there as the only one worth attention on gun control. Just hand them one of the latest NRA Armed Citizens articles. There is nothing I love more to read then when a 80 year old WWII vet screws up some young jacka## day. Like this one it just brightens your day early in the morning.
  http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/336411/28/92-year-old-Earl-Jones-shoots-burglar-breaking-into-home
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 8:12am
  Bobble Head Bob thinks he is the greatest thing since sliced bread because of his interview wit Sandusky, So, now he can lecture us on gun control.
  
  the one thing Bob forgets that gun control keeps the guns out of the hands of the honest citizens. Bob should have check with Scotland Yards on how many crimes are committed involving a gun in the UK.
  
  Bob needs to go back to his little fantasy bubble and leave the rest of the world to us.
  
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- Bum thrower
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 8:14am
  Another leftist idiot; If Kasandra Perkins had a gun, SHE might still be alive….you JERK!!
  You want my pistol……………..come and take it….!!
  
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- LIBSALWAYSLIE
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 8:30am
  Clueless Costas has no ability to think this through.In places where guns are not allowed you’ll find the highest rate of gun related crime. DC for example, guns not allowed yet they have the highest rate of gun crime in the country. When you outlaw guns, only outlaws have guns. Costas is an idiot.
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 8:31am
  Bobble Head Bob and The National Bolshevik Company is the reason why I do night watch Sunday night football.
  
  We are lucky Bobble Head stopped at guns and did not want to outlaw: football for being to violent, or Alcohol as a contributing factor, or Drugs, wait Bob: Drugs are already illegal but people seem to still get them, or cars that are used as dangerous weapons, or rap music, or video games.
  
  μολὼν λαβέ
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 8:33am
  Yea, remember when O.J shot and killed those two people? Oh wait………….
  
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- stanbeck
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 8:48am
  I saw that and it’s sick!!!
  
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- MRMADMAN
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 8:58am
  “If Jovan Belcher didn’t possess a gun, he and andra Cassandra Perkins would both be alive today.”
  
  This is a way of shifting the blame away from the guilty party and onto society.
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:05am
  I’m really sick of people lecturing us on Politics and what they feel is good for us! Just because you are on TV or are famous doesn’t give you the right to tell me how to vote or live my life ! These idiots are really irritating !
  
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- Red Meat
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:16am
  And yet, people still support professional sports and the networks that make money from them.
  
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- TEXASGRANNY73
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:19am
  Sure! If a man kills a woman with a lamp or a knife or pushes her over a cliff and then jumps off a building himself we should consider banning knives and lamps and buildings and cliffs or does the 2nd amendment mean just the right to own guns? And are we not sick and tired of the liberal controlled media telling us all what to think? Isn’t grabbing and pushing another person down considered an assault? We should then ban FOOTBALL. And Bob Costas?
  
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- TAXEVERYONE
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:20am
  Who is Bob Costas and why should I care?
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:25am
  Does anybody but me notice that our boy is looking into the camera with a face lift that’s taken place noit too long ago?
  
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- JKT3053
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:27am
  nbcsportshelp@nbcuni.com is the contact at NBC if you want to say something to them, I did….
  
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- ambrosia
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:28am
  Wrap a floral baboushka around his knothole head-
  here comes Nanny Costas.
  
  This lil’ shrimp has always been full of himself,
  could NEVER stand him-
  too damn mechanical for his own words !
  
  Somebody needs to remind this know-it-all, lil’ squirt
  that if someone is hell-bent on murdering,
  there are thousands of ways to accomplish that-
  without a pistol or a bullet.
  
  Wise up, lil’ azz & enlighten your liberal sense of authority,
  ya’ pugnacious, boring PUNK !
  
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- suttonea76
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:32am
  Once again another idiot with a microphone that feels their opinion has merit and needs to be heard. If we all had microphones we all would be heard for the intelligent and sometimes stupid points of view we all have. Costas has been known for making a mockery of the profession by throwing his feces around in the affect of being outspoken and brave. He has never placed himself in a realm of personal responsibility to the effects of football concussions, fulfilling your contract and now violence. Typical NBC liberal douchebag that has never understood how people’s actions are a result of decisions, NOT CHOICES, of how they wish to conduct themselves in criminal behavior. This idiot would have killed his girlfriend by any means necessary as we still sell kitchen knives and rope.
  
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- ChiefGeorge
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:46am
  Guns also help oust and or stop Saddam, Mummar, the third reich, empire of the rising sun, Mussolini, Pol Pot, and countless bad guys at the hands of good citizens and so on. Within them, we will live under tyranny of government who will say we must do this for your own good like the health care they had to pass so we could see what was in it.
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:55am
  Here is what the MSM will not tell you, nor will the multiculture education system (public schools), if African Americans had the same murder rate as white Americans, we would drop our national murder rate by almost 40%, making us have one of the lowest rates in the free world.
  
  Blacks make up 12% of the population, but do half of the nations murders. That is what makes our murder rates so high.
  
  Keep it real
  
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- Bloody Sam
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:56am
  “If Javon Belcher didn’t possess a handgun…”
  
  He’d have used a baseball bat or a machete. Think Bob. Think.
  
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- bobbert
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:59am
  First of all, a tragedy is a boat sinking. This was nothing more than a drugged out alcohol induced rage by another pampered athlete. Raised in a culture of rage and thuggery from pee wee football to the pros. But let’s blame the gun. It’s amazing out of the MILLIONS of guns in this country that so many people own them and use them properly. Bob-never played sports-limo liberal-should realize that his razor cut **** does not qualify him to lecture America on what the problem is. If he wanted to talk about make-up or tight fitting suits and the ‘tragedy’ of having to watch his weight and face lifts then I’m sure he could find a effeminate group of people to listen. Otherwise, he should peace off.
  
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- JohnnyinthePedros
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:05am
  Gun is to murder like fork is to obesity.
  
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- joey g
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:19am
  right on,,,this little terp sucks ….
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:22am
  A football player could snap the next of their partner in a domestic dispute just as easily as harming them any other way.
  
  Bob Costas is merely highly paid. He is not wise.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:39am
  Here in Oklahoma our crime is very low.We already were a carry stte and now an open carry state. Crooks have no idea weho has a gun except those that are openly carrying.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:47am
  Crooks here in Oklahoma are afraid that other folks around are carrying a concealed weapon. I Have a .22 Rruger Mark 1 in my holster but still carry a double barrel derringer in my boot. My wife has a .38 Lady Smith in her purse. As you can imagine our crime rate is very low. People will always find a weapon to kill someone if they go off the deep end. Theres guns, knives, hammers, swords and as a last resort a 2 X 4 or a lowely rock if you snap.
  
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- OlderCowGirl
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 11:06am
  Dear Anti-Gun folks, gun control idiots, and the like: okay…let’s just imagine that…that is possible to round up every single gun in the USA. Pretend for a moment…even though it’s impossible.
  
  Okay…now instead of shooting someone…people get stabbed with knives. Well, maybe now all the knives are all rounded up in the USA. Rocks…maybe folks now can use big rocks to crush the head, or a candlestick, or a baseball bat. Get the picture? Killing won’t stop until killers stop.
  
  And…do you liberal/progressive folks think for a moment that people will not import more guns via gun runners? Mexico has a ban on guns. How do you figure thousands of Mexicans die each year?
  
  Oh…now imagine home made bombs…remember the troubles in Ireland? Maybe we should round up all fertilizers. I used to think I hoped Americans never started using bombs for killing. And bombs can easily kill more than the one person intended.
  
  Or how about poisonous plants??? Hmmmm? Can’t even eliminate all the Pot in this country. Imagine trying to eliminate all the guns.
  
  FYI: I;d rather be shot with a gun than stabbed with a knife.
  
  Too many stupid people in this world. I can hardly wait to pass into the next life.
  
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- Evileye
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 11:59am
  Why not Cars, Swim pools ,Drugs Alcohol Crossbows And the biggest killer of all Religion
  If you don’t believe what I believe you should Die.
  
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- black9897
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 12:01pm
  Jason Whitlock is super ignorant. I was watching Sunday night football (yeah cowboys!!) and then they take some time to push this crap. How dumb. As if he couldn’t have used a knife, baseball bat, or his hands.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 12:42pm
  Evileye
  And the biggest killer of all Religion … If you don’t believe what I believe you should Die.
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  Give me that good old time European Religion.
  -Killing a perfectly health young woman to server a recent deceased chief. – The Rus
  -The Blood Eagle
  - The people thrown in bogs
  - Druidic law that rationalized the killing of someone innocent if they could not ascertain the culprit.
  
  Let’s consider Charlemagne. He mass baptized several thousand Saxons. But that was only after he retaliated for their pillage in Frankish land, subsequently defeated 2 or 3 times in battle. After defeating them & getting a peace treaty which they broke he got tired of it & smashed the great tree of the tree huggers. I know this example is one of you oldies & goodies. but note that the 1st time he conquered them he did not force any conversion.
  
  We could go on & break everyone of your arguments down.
  
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- WATER-THE-TREE
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 1:39pm
  The very first man born was a murderer ad he did not have a gun!
  
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- kadster01
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 1:53pm
  Hows ’bout you just stick to dumb jocks throwing a ball around and patting each other on the ass, Bob? Leave the thinking to people who still have a brain.
  
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- Fecal_Matters
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 1:54pm
  What amazes me is how these self righteous AH’s speak…like they know everything…and you must listen.
  
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- Sorionc
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 1:57pm
  Call commish goodell and voice your opinion at 212-450 -2027… repost this and keep his # at the top of the comments!
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 2:49pm
  I missed it – I was cleaning my gun while he was talking !
  
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- black9897
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 3:04pm
  @KADSTER01
  
  Not all of football players are dumb. Many are very smart. Also, football takes a lot more intelligence than most think. Plus it’s more than just “throwing a ball around.”
  
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- desertspeaks
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 3:21pm
  and so it begins! the media have received their marching orders and those orders are to talk down gun rights! rail against those rights, and to dissuade you from DEFENDING your rights!
  The secret of the second amendment is that it won’t be needed until they try to take it away! THOMAS JEFFERSON!
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 3:49pm
  He really isn’t too bright, and counts on his celebrity to make up for his lack of intellect. His statement makes no logical sense whatsoever and is devoid of context.
  
  A firearm certainly does enhance the safety of anybody who wishes to engage in lawful self defense. I’m far more likely to emerge alive from a confrontation with a gang of thugs looking to inflict bodily harm on me, if I have a sidearm, than if I do not. What would enhance my safety more, besides being escorted by a cadre of cops. But wait, cops would only be intimidating if they too had sidearms. Further, if sidearms do not enhance safety, then why do cops and soldiers carry them?
  
  See? The pantywaist is playing on pure emotions, like all good Leftists. What an effeminate movement he’s a part of and exemplifies.
  
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- monroeslb
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 3:55pm
  Why should a sports announcer and a captive audience voice his opinion on gun control? I am sorry that tragedy happened but it was in the gun that killed them people. It was the person behind the gun, who made a decision in a haste of anger to pick up a gun, but if he didn’t have a gun in his state of mind. The people would still be dead. So these people in the media want to put us all at risk by having the government come in to our homes and take over our guns. As soon as that happens, and they compensate the gun people will be robbing houses with these, and then Tierney starts and we will have no freedom. Of course we are on our way there with this communist in the White House.
  
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- SWING HARD
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 5:07pm
  Bob, you stupid clock sucker, the gun doesn’t pull the trigger!
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 5:09pm
  I’ll give up my guns when the government gives up theirs !
  
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- xenolith
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 6:16pm
  Facts seem to seriously contradict Mr Costas’ claim that without guns, Javon Belcher and his girlfriend would still be alive today.
  
  Highest rate of suicides per 10,000: Lithuania at 3.16 (USA is ranked 38th at 1.2)
  Highest rate of gun ownership per 100: USA at 88.8 (Lithuania is ranked 160th at .7 )
  
  In South Korea, you’ll find the same. It’s ranked very high in the rate of suicides (2nd at 3.12/10K) but is ranked very low in gun ownership (149th at 1.1/100.)
  
  So to summarize, there are 126 times more gun owners in the US than in Lithuania, but there are two and half times more that commit suicide in Lithuania than in the US.
  
  If there is better evidence that liberals are guided more by emotion than logic in regards to the 2nd amendment, I don’t know of any.
  
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- db321
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:26pm
  Quit picking on Jovan Belcher. The problem with the NFL is that Tim Teabow!
  
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- WATER-THE-TREE
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:51pm
  QUIATA — you have said it most brilliantly, straight and to the point.
  
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- Quester55
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 11:26pm
  Could you just see the headlines, Americans Give up their Rights to Protect Their Family’s From All intruders & Enemies of the Country. Every household to Freely turn over every Bullet shooting gun in the house.
  Within 30 days or less, Every Crook, Terrorist, or National Government would be Invading our country & we’d all be DEAD or Dying, over night!
  If that Fool & his Goon Squads want my Gun, I may die, but he can have it, One Barrow at a Time!
  
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- Texaslockstar
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:38am
  “If he didn’t have a gun they would still be alive” , So, are you telling me he doesn’t have a steak knife in the house? You don’t need a gun to kill , a punch in the right place can kill. Hands can choke. Let’s looks at facts . Fact – crime is lower in states with conceal carry laws. Fact – states with strict gun laws have higher crime rates and murder rates . Fact – he could have killed his girlfriend with anything in the house then drove off a bridge . Fact – Hitler banned guns in Germany only so he could take over the people . Fact the libs are acting like Hitlers followers they want to take over. Costis is just another N.B.C. idiot looking for something to make him popular. Fact – another N.B.C. fail .
  
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- WATER-THE-TREE
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:34am
  RANGERSKIPPY
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:55am
  Here is what the MSM will not tell you, nor will the multiculture education system (public schools), if African Americans had the same murder rate as white Americans, we would drop our national murder rate by almost 40%, making us have one of the lowest rates in the free world.
  
  Blacks make up 12% of the population, but do half of the nations murders. That is what makes our murder rates so high.
  
  Keep it real ………………………………………………
  
  The Bible lets us know that the races were preserved by Noah’s three sons, each one married a different race. One of those races did an evil to Noah. One guess as to which race it was!
  
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- WATER-THE-TREE
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 6:14am
  The fact that a guy flips out has nothing to do with gun control, liberals make me sick. Then again this is just more of the elitist agenda. They will come for our guns, they have to. This country will be taken captive. The God that a lot of people do not believe in says this.
  
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- donotdrinkthekoolade
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 11:36am
  Costa’s hairpiece is on way too tight!
  
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- kadster01
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:26pm
  @BLACK9897
  
  “Not all of football players are dumb. Many are very smart. Also, football takes a lot more intelligence than most think. Plus it’s more than just ‘throwing a ball around.’”
  
  Well, in all fairness, I did also mention their fondness for patting each other on the ass. :-D
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:43pm
  I expect Costas to be commenting on subway violence this Sunday.
  
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Broncobuster
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:56pm
OJ Simpson didn’t use a gun,,,,,,,just say’n .

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- dogday
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 3:00am
  Exactly. The guy didn’t need a gun to kill himself–lots of tall buildings around. Perhaps if his girlfriend was carrying, she could have saved him the trouble.
  
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- DIR
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 3:20am
  If Bob is so concerned about weapons that kill maybe he should talk about getting rid of the coat hanger.
  
  If there were no such things as guns, Bob would find some other cause celeb to spout off about, like people arming themselves by eating deviled eggs that have gone bad.
  
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 6:09am
  Neither did the thugs that accosted Bernie Goetz.
  
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- RIGHT_WHERE_IT_HURTS
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:29am
  Or the thugs that attacked Bernie Goetz either. All you need is a tool and a bad intention.
  
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- starman70
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:59am
  Costas needs to stick to SPORTS and leave the rediculous commentary out. But remember he works for NBC which is short for NOTHING BUT COMMUNISM, so what else could you ever expect from that organization. He never really blamed the fact that this young player chuld be suffering from head injuries or that he had a history of alcohol and drug abuse, all of which could be factors in the events.
  
  Maybe Costas will find out about the need for the 2nd amendment if his house were invaded in the night by a bunch of thugs. (God forbid that something like that would happen but it could.) How would he defend his family?
  
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 11:35am
  Thanks for the reinforcement, Right. Asleep at the switch? Just kidding. Every little bit helps. :)=
  
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jman-6
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:55pm
“IF” a frog had wings he wouldn’t bump his @$$ when he jumped! As stupid as this sounds…Costas now you know what you sounded like!! The “IF” monster strikes again!! You can’t fix STUPID..So FIRE HIM ASAP!!

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- grayling646
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 12:28am
  If bullfrogs carried saw off shotguns you wouldn’t see frogs legs on the menu, either.
  
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 6:04am
  …and the sale of TV Bricks soars again. A worthwhile investment, these days. As far as winged frogs go…heh, heh, heh. :)=
  
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Isis79
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:54pm
The 2nd amendment was created for a purpose few if any liberals understand. An armed person is a citizen while an unarmed person is a subject. I suggest everyone should own as many arms and ammo as they possible can because 2013 is not going to be a good year for liberty or freedom.

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- mharry860
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 12:20am
  ISIS79, “An armed person is a citizen while an unarmed person is a subject.” Thank You, Thank You, Thank You. Your a blessed relief from the trolls on here.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 12:36am
  Here here !!!
  
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 2:28am
  Good start point, ban people that have names like ” Jovan”
  
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- Girard1974
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 3:57am
  Oh for crying out loud!! It isn’t “Here, here!” It’s “Hear, Hear!” Why can’t people trying and understand things before they mimic others? Just what could “Here, here” possibly mean?!?!?
  
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- ICSPADES
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 4:36am
  @Girad Would it not be “try to” instead of the crap you wrote? ( Why can’t people trying and understand things before they mimic others?) Just sayin.
  
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- Orwellian States
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:02am
  I always feel better when I carry my .357 snubby. Anyway, the 2nd amendment is not about hunting, but instead about protecting ourselves from a government (such as we have now) that keeps overstepping its authority.
  
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- RIGHT_WHERE_IT_HURTS
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:34am
  Huzzah! works too. The poor British have forsaken their heritage for PC. It’s achieved them nothing but servitude. Better them than us.
  
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RRFlyer
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:54pm
So, Costas is saying Nichole Simpson and Ron Goldman are still alive, since OJ didn’t have a gun????

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marianner863
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:53pm
Guns don’t kill people – people kill people. Jovan Belcher was a troubled young man. And if he was bent on murder suicide he could have beat his girlfriend to death and then jumped off a bridge. Or used a knife or baseball bat, the family car, you get the idea.
And If it’s guns that Mr. Costas is worried about, then perhaps he can use his influence has part of the National Obama Channel (NBC) to get the facts on fast & furious.

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- INTOODEEP
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:57pm
  Aint that the trueth !
  
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- F.O.S. DIAPERHEAD
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 2:18am
  Don’t forget my favs: crowbar and axe!
  
  Can you say bludgeoned???
  
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- DMENTED
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 6:19am
  “Take me out to the ball game…” or a pitchfork in a pinch…”Power Tools…which tool is right for you?…”
  
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Brentley
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:52pm
No halftime show should be presenting a commentary that does not relate to the sport on hand. This is just another attempt of government interfering. Glad I have quit watching sports for the most part. Tired of the cry baby ball players, and sure dont want to listen to rhetoric about anything they dont know about.

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 8:32am
  Was watching the game when this happened. My wife and I looked at each other in disbelief when
  Costas launched into this anti-gun rant. We promptly turned the channel. We love and look forward to NFL games and the football season every year, but if this is what we have to look forward to then
  —– goodbye NFL.
  
  Having to suffer Keith Olberwoman was bad enough but this just takes the cake.
  
  As far as the incident itself and everyone bloviating sympathy —– the guy made a choices,
  the “girlfriend” made a choices. Its time to put a stop to this ceremony of trying to assign
  blame to someone or something other than where it belongs.
  
  It wasnt the gun’s fault, it wasnt the fault of the gun mfg —- this was a 25 year old college grad
  NFL celebrity making $2mil a year who decided the answer to a marital spat was a bullet. Ive owned
  and handled weapons since before I was old enough to attend elementary school and Ive never shot
  anyone. This describes just about everyone I know.
  
  No sympathy here. Live like a thug, die like a thug.
  http://hinterlandgazette.com/2012/12/kansas-city-chiefs-player-javon-belcher-commits-suicide-arrowhead-stadium.html
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:03am
  “made a choice”
  
  Sorry, temporary dyslexia
  
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- ExpertShot
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 12:32pm
  @ Bodybag – I, too, immediately turned off the game after that rant, especially when he said “If Jovan Belcher didn’t possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today”. I guess he’d be calling for amputations of hands if he’d strangled her instead? What an idiot. I will no longer watch SNF as long as it’s carried by NBC.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 3:46pm
  Awfully funny that there has been ZERO commentary regarding the fact that
  if you’re in a “relationship” where gun play is involved:
  
  {1] You’re likely mentally unstable
  [2] The “relationship” is EXTREMELY hazardous to your well-being
  [3] You should immediately RUN and NEVER look back
  
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FiveSolas
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:51pm
Yeah Bob, and footballs are responsible for touchdowns.

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- WTFHappenedToTheUSA
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 12:17am
  LOL, nice one. Costas is a hypocrite POS. Tell him he can’t say something on the air…and the twerp will run and hide behind the first amendment. But the second…oh bad.
  
  Sorry Bob, you liberal s&^M don’t get to pick and choose which constitutional rights are enjoyed by us and which are not.
  
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- RIGHTHOOK
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:59am
  That’s good!!! And **** dye is responsible for “Bob the phony’s” fraud looks to match his fraud intellect.
  
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- batteredtaxpayer
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:09am
  Don’t forget, footballs are responsible for extra points not just touchdowns.
  
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- shoulda coulda woulda
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 12:05pm
  Thank you.
  
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- OfBy4thePeople
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 4:40pm
  Footballs magically fly 50+ yards through the air and score field goals!
  
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kalli
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:50pm
Are you in favor of banning cross bows and knives, too, bob? How about banning abortions that have murdered millions of unborn children? How about banning manure that can make a bomb? How about banning bob costas from speaking on national tv about anything? The liberal left should stop and think before speaking and making themselves out to be fools.

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Iam4EnoughALREADY
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:50pm
Um—didn’t we just have bow and arrows and knifes used in a tragic ending…..we need to ban them too!! c’mon BOB…I expected more out of you!!

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scrapadapolis
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:49pm
Gees the person that ran over their spouse for voting for romney used a car not a gun..Hey costas you sir just keep drinking that kool-aid and when Obama decides he wants your money,kids,wife,house,Let us know how you feel then.We wouldn’f give a rats a$$.

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lakersfan242424
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:49pm
Yeah, I turned it after that. I couldn’t believe he turned part of the halftime show into an anti-second amendment political segment. It’s just unbelievable. But, I shouldn’t blame him. It was the microphone’s fault, right?

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- KissMyAmericanFlag
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:44am
  What about all the other viewers who either agreed with him or were propagandized…
  
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grayling646
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:49pm
All conjecture and no sources to back up his claims. The last statement about the player and his wife still being alive had it not been for the gun, I don’t suppose he could have stabbed his wife with a knife or beat her to death with a bat or golf club or maybe just strangle her to death. He sucks as a sports reporter/commentator and now I see he also sucks at news reporting/analysis. He just sucks, period. I never have liked Costas.

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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 12:20am
  He’s a obnoxious little smurf isn’t he? I have NEVER liked that guy. Two reasons I don’t watch that Sunday night game, #1, NBC, #2, him. Or anything else with Costas @ the commentary for that matter. He’s worse than Howard Cosell!
  
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possom
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:48pm
Tell the people in san bernadino to put down their guns, It’s all they have left since the police got fired.

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venrooy
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:47pm
We all know what happens to sports-casters that spew their liberal rhetoric… [cough] Keith Olbermann [/cough]. Hopefully Costas will disappear from importance just as quickly.

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- wzanesdad
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 2:10am
  he very well may disappear….I think he’s preaching to the WRONG choir on sunday night football. I think once nbc realizes the sheer number of fans he has offended, they will have to do something. I for one, will not watch anything on nbc until this is settled. There’s plenty of football on other networks that don’t give me a lecture at halftime. Sorry bob…..you’re done.
  
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SUNTZU
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:46pm
People kill people
Support abortion,

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RaydocX
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:45pm
Bob costs betrayed his lefty roots… Remember when he asked Michael jordanbif it was his mom with him, when it was his wife?

He is equally clueless here. She was shot multiple times, so his blind rage old have easily been sufficient to do lethal harm with a knife or a club or his fists.

I don’t hear any gun supporters dying, ‘if she had been armed maybe just he would be dead’.

Stop the politicization of tragedy bob and NBC and MSM. Your OPINION is not fact. It may not even be right. So shut up and give us the facts and colorful anecdotes about the game, that’s all.

If you don’t want a gun or your security to be armed, bob, that’s your choice. But at every level of humanity there are wolves who are armed and will casually hurt you. And bob, you look much more like sheep then you seem to believe.

No one said you have to be armed… Feel free to again demonstrate poor judgement and just hope that the bad guys won’t hurt you.

Put another way, in 20+ years of marriage, including the outrageous lies of a wife seeking leverage for a divorce, my having a gun did not ‘lead to death.’ so shove your simplistic sermon, you tool!

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deploy-the-nukes
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:45pm
If Belcher hadn’t had a gun he would have grabbed a knife and stabbed her to death and then slit his own wrists or neck. Or beat her over the head with a hammer, or cut her up with a chainsaw. What the heck difference does it make what weapon he used! If he was intent on killing her and himself he would have used whatever was handy.
Costas and all gun control freaks are just that ‘control freaks’!

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RedHarley
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:43pm
Costas says ” If Jovan Belcher didn’t possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today”

I say ” If Barack Obama wasn’t president and Eric Holder wasn’t attorney general, Brian Terry would be alive today”.

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- INTOODEEP
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:55pm
  Amen !!!
  
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- Cosmo 1976
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 1:24am
  oooo thats the sharp end…put some legs on that one…to walk over to NBC/NFL? the best comment of the page yet. well done
  
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- annie1
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 5:48am
  best comment!
  
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- RedHarley
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 6:55am
  I might add that gun control has nothing to do with guns, and everything to do with control..
  
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- Fishmanone
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:31am
  Amen Redharley!!!!
  
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- gunslingerpatriot
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 8:31am
  Ouch that hitting the truth between the legs and thats going to leave a mark-WELL Said Red!
  
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- Zatoichi
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:17am
  Excellent Red, thank you!
  
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- OfBy4thePeople
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 4:45pm
  As well as Ty Woods!
  
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- moonlight on the bay
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:14pm
  Guns don’t enhance safety, eh, Mr. Costas? I think the countless homeowners who’ve stopped a home invasion or even killed the intruder for the save the lives of their families would strongly disagree with you. So you’d prefer to submit to an intruder, let him take whatever he wants, rather than saves lives and property with a handgun for protection? I think you’re full of crap. Do you have a security team for protection? Are they just armed with Super Soakers as a deterrent? You know who might have benefited from having a handgun? Perhaps Belcher’s girlfried!
  
  You’re free to state your opinion, Mr. Costas. Just be prepared for the reaction to it. Free speech works both ways.
  
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- moonlight on the bay
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:17pm
  Woooooooooooooooooooooo. Good one!
  
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- USA-USA-USA
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 11:39am
  Yes!!!
  
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Zipit
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:42pm
If only they didn’t have any knives in the kitchen!
If only there wasn’t a baseball bat in the garage!
If there hadn’t been any rat poison under the sink!
If his fists weren’t so big, maybe he wouldn’t have beat her to death! Or strangled her!
Yeah, it’s tragic! And if he didn’t own a gun, chances are, they both would be alive right now! Or not. We’ll never know!!!

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- ISIT2016YET
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 12:02am
  Yes…. we do know. Unless he had a conversation with his gun in which it convinced him that he had no choice other than to commit murder and then off himself, then no, the gun is not in any way responsible for this heinous crime.
  
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- edmundburk
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 11:25pm
  politics and football should not be mixed!!
  
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Apple Bite
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:42pm
Yeah, because he couldn’t have possibly stabbed her multiple times and shoved her body in the trunk of a car, right? He couldn’t have conspired to wait for her to be in a sink or tub with water, and tossed an electrical device into the water, or made it look like she sliped on something and broke her neck….right.

This is why I left the simple minded of the Left. Their minds are stuck in the little sand box, refusing to see beyond what’s in front of them. There’s an entire world before them waiting for the truth to be heard and seen. They continue to be stuck in their own imagination, not seeing reality for what it truly is.

Nicole Simpson doesn’t ring a bell, does it, Mr. Costas? I mean, O.J. used a gun on her, right. No wait…. it was a knife after all….hmmmm.

(For the record, I still think O.J.’s son killed Nicole and Goldman, but that’s just me….)

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legendarytwo
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:38pm
No accident. NBC coordinated with the government. Gun control is next on the agenda.

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- Max jones
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:57pm
  how about mentioning the control of weapons we give to the Muslim brotherhood through programs like the Bengazi debacle. If the crazy linebacker wanted to kill the girl, he really did not need a gun. Although he probably couldn’t have strangled himself.
  
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Maxim Crux
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:36pm
Maybe when the elite that start wars and revolutions give up their guns then perhaps there would be logic for everyone else to give up theirs.

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- chalkdust
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:02am
  Right, and if it wasn’t for the “elites”, there would be no wars or murders….we would all get along like peaches if it wasn’t for the wretched elites.
  
  Think that through.
  
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- Schteveo
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 8:35pm
  I just read an article abut two of the ‘elites’ holding up a gas station and shooting the clerk. Supposedly they were short of some ‘elitist’ drug or other. And over Thanksgiving, one of the ‘elites’ shot another of the ‘elites’ over some pickup truck parts.
  
  Maxim,
  are you balmy?
  
  The majority of the shootings and domestic violence takes place well below the ‘elite’ line. Not because the elites don’t want to shoot their spouses, but because there are way more of us at the less than elite level. Do the math on the per capita elitist vs lowly schlubs in the country.
  
  And the guns in question had nothing to do with war, and everything to do with selfishness and control. I expect it also had much to do with drugs and alcohol as well, judging from the articles running around.
  
  Maxim, believe this or not, there actually those of us in the gun owning, daily gun carrying world who do so to protect us ALL. If I was to be present at a gas station or auto parts store and someone pulled a gun, I’d do my best to stop them. If they would stop and surrender, and stand down until LEO’s arrive, all the better.
  
  If not, I practice often, and I’m a good enough shot to stop them, and protect us all.
  
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- llotus
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:48pm
  Maxjones…he could have swallowed the sword.Lotus.
  
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RLTW
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:34pm
Take your game of drugs, rape and violence off the field and shove them up your stupid ignorant fourth point of contact.

Costas, you want my guns come and get them you worthless little POS

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- poster
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 6:43am
  The key word here is “little”.
  
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Maxim Crux
Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:33pm
I wonder what he would do if a football player would snap is neck. Perhaps a lecture would work.

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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:59pm
  You never hear about Badminton players who own guns shooting people or committing suicide.
  
  Maybe it’s the drugs, money, fame and head injuries that have something to do with it?
  
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- ISIT2016YET
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 12:04am
  To be fair here… you don’t hear about badminton players for any reason…. ever.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 12:34am
  @ISIT2016YET
  
  You apparently didn’t watch the last Olympics…. it was all the “rage”…..
  
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