Last night, Bob Costas offered a mealy-mouthed apology to anyone who misunderstood his now-infamous NFL-halftime anti-gun rant and then launched into yet another illogical and nonsensical assault against gun-ownership. The most outrageous and bizarre point he makes, though, involves his being thankful that no one in that Aurora movie theatre was armed and able to defend themselves against a madman earlier this year.
According to Costas, because he only had 90 seconds with which to make his halftime point, we all misunderstood, because he didn't have the time necessary to make the overall point he wanted to make.
I look at it in the exact opposite way. Knowing he had only 90 seconds means that Costas was forced to be very careful, precise, and selective in what he had to say -- and what he had to say was not only insulting to those of us who believe football should be a politics-free zone, but also to the memory of a murdered young woman.
Yes, Costas was quoting someone else -- columnist Jason Whitlock -- when he said, “If Jovan Belcher didn’t possess a gun, he and Kassandra Perkins would both be alive today.” But he prefaced that quote by telling his captive me audience that this was something with which he agreed.
You want some actual perspective on this? Well, a bit of it comes from the Kansas City 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.
So Costas was obviously endorsing and wholeheartedly agreeing with Whitlock's absurd belief that Belcher and Kassandra Perkins would be alive were it not for a gun. This of course lays the responsibility for a murder on the gun, not the murderer. Last night, though, Costas backtracked on that, agreeing that there are other ways to commit murder besides a firearm.
Well, duh.
The most bizarre part the Costas' interview, though, was when he seemed to advocate stripping athletes of their Second Amendment rights:
Give me one example of an athlete–I know it’s happened in society–but give me one example of a professional athlete who by virtue of his having a gun, took a dangerous situation and turned it around for the better. I can’t think of a single one. But sadly, I can think of dozens where by virtue of having a gun, a professional athlete wound up in a tragic situation.
The stupidity of this thinking must be a genetic thing.
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