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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)

(Photo: Twitter/@politeracy)

(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)

PaulHubert
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 8:27pm
He should be FIRED.

But if every report who NEEDED to be fired were, would there be any remaining??

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bravjim
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 11:11am
If Jovan Belcher didn’t possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

Says who? Perhaps he would have chopped her head off with an ax instead. Or butchered her with a knife. Or ran her over with his car. Guns do not kill people, people kill people. The guy is no better than Chris Benoit, who didn’t use a gun, he strangled his wife and kids, and then used an exercise machine to kill himself. Uh oh, perhaps we should outlaw hands and exercise equipment as well.

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kmurphey77
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 6:12pm
If guns are to blame for murder, then NBC is to blame for idiots.

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