Via The Right Scoop, Bob Costas tries to explain his anti-gun comments on O’Reilly:
In an MSNBC interview on the 5th, Costas said that “young men can’t own guns without something bad happening”. [Infowars]
Costas told O’Donnell that he was in favor of “more comprehensive gun control legislation” and tried to argue the point by commenting that 65 out of 80 Colts players admitted to owning guns.
“Even if all those guns were obtained legally, you can’t have 65 guys in their 20?s and 30?s, aggressive young men subject to impulses, without something bad happening,” said Costas.
“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 has wound up in a tragic situation,” he added.
Costas failed to name any of the “dozens” of such incidents he claimed proved his point, but we were able to dig up examples of athletes using a gun for self-defense or to stop a crime taking place.
Costas couldn’t name one, and yet we were able to come up with a couple just from a quick Google search, as well as other examples where athletes would have survived attacks and murders had they been able to defend themselves.
- In 2005, Baltimore Ravens cornerback Corey Fuller used his .38-caliber revolver to fire at and chase away a gunman who had entered his home in an attempted robbery.
- Also in 2005, Houston Astros outfielder Luke Scott prevented a potentially violent situation in Houston involving a man asking him for money by displaying his gun.
- As this Fox News article explains, football players are routinely targeted by criminals and armed thieves, giving them all the more reason to be armed in order to protect their families.
- In 2007, Washington Redskins’ Sean Taylor was shot dead trying to protect his family after gunmen burst into his Miami home. “Some wonder if he’d be alive today if he’d had a gun nearby to protect himself that night,” reports Vibe.
Statist host Lawrence O’Donnell then attempted to refute a point made by many in the aftermath of Costas’ comments – that Jovan Belcher could just as easily have strangled or stabbed his wife to death and that he is to blame and not the gun, which is an inanimate object.
“How many home runs could Babe Ruth hit without a bat,” asks O’Donnell, believing that a comparison between a sports game where only a baseball bat is allowed and real life, where any object can be used to kill a person, is somehow applicable or makes sense in any way – when it clearly doesn’t.
Far from apologizing for his ludicrous comments, Costas has doubled down, spouting ever more inane nonsense in an attempt to back up his empty argument, such as the claim that athletes have never used a gun in a positive context, which as we document above is completely untrue.
20s and 30s subject to impulses? Why might that be? Might it be that their precious egos and self images were so coddled while they were young – rather than molded, trained, CIVILIZED! while they were yet malleable? Might it have been that they were raised in homes without strong male role models? And why might that have been? Might it have been because of the parenting structure that has been molded by liberal progressive man hating women? or a government bent on producing a population beholding to the nanny state? Might it be because they’ve spent the first 20-30 years believing something is owed them by society – that somehow society should give back TO THEM – so that when real life hits they have no idea how to behave like civilized adults???
Why is it that when children are young we want to shove adult life down their throat – spoiling their innocence with sex education and lessons in tolerance of adult subjects like homosexuality, then as soon as they are old enough to begin actually understanding and handling those topics we begin to treat them like 3 year olds?
Bob Costas – if it is the culture, it is the culture that you and your progressive/liberal friends created.
My son is 15 and has been taught impulse control.
Children are not born civilized. They must BE civilized. And that can only be done by parents who DO THEIR JOB!
ok – time to climb off my high horse
You are, of course, exactly right. Sadly enough.
I have owned a gun since I was 17 (1964), at age 18, the Chief of Police in Newport News VA gave me a collectors permit so I could buy any gun I wanted from any store just like the Concealed Weapon Permit allows me to do in FL – I have pointed a gun at one car in self defense (a police officer would have opened fire) without pulling the trigger and have not shot anyone in 48 years so he is wrong – but then I was not raised by the current society that has not taught right from wrong, winners & losers, do not hit girls, you have to earn what you have, life is cheap, and I did not have TV where death will be temporary for only a week or two and they will be back – He is right, most young people of today have not been taught properly to have a mindset for safe gun ownership – The current education system has failed everyone – oh shit – where did the time go?
Funny, I was still only seventeen when I got on the USS Oak Hill, beginning my trip to the Southeast Asian War Games. I was a month and a half into being eighteen when I landed at Chu Lai on 7 May, 1965.
My guns must have been defective, I never did murder anyone.
Most people join the Service in their teens and twenties. Most cops start during their early twenties.
Sounds to me like the one with poor impulse control is Costas. He couldn’t keep his mouth shut when he needed too, and now he keeps digging himself deeper.
Oh, that wasn’t his fault; we should blame the microphone.
And no matter how hard he tries, Costas will never live this down.
That said, you know what? It’s HIS opinion. I’m all for letting him have his opinion and letting him speak his mind. Cuz that’s what America is all about. We all have the right to open our mouths, insert our foot, and outrage half the nation. It’s our Constitutional right to show our ass, so to speak, to everyone and it’s also everyone else’s right to stand up and shake our fist in anger if we don’t agree.
Thank God we live in a country where the celebrity opinion is so “valued”.
He’s very welcome to his opinion, because I don’t want it. Let him exercise this freedome while we still have some semblance of it.
God bless America!
Amen!!
I forgot, Uncle Sam had me wearing a 45 at 17 1/2 with no training on it for several months than I was taken to Norfolk, fired 5 rounds and considered qualified – that gave me the DD214 that was needed for a FL CW permits so I have no idea what Bob is talking about and more importantly neither does he
No, not unless he’s talking about some sub-culture within the NFL that I’ve no knowledge of…
Almost forgot, I did shoot at a scuba diver swimming to my sub in the middle of the night at age 18 – I wrote in the log book and only thing I heard was I hit his tank – nothing else, no idea who he was or why he did it
Nice shot, honey!
No news is good news! Good thing it wasn’t a SEAL or he’d a probably beat your ass…
There is a culture that should, somehow, be forbidden firearms, the thug culture. I don’t know how to enforce it but that nut on the KC Chiefs looked as if he followed that culture.
It’s funny, though, everyone knows the thug culture ends up with misery, early death and prison but large numbers of people willingly embrace it. We saw it in the pictures of twelve year old Trayvon Martin and the seventeen year old thug wannabe who ended up about a hundred miles from home, suspended from school, dead because he attacked someone with a gun. and that twelve year old looked so warm and bright, with the whole effin’ world in front of him for the taking. He chose the thug culture.
May God damn the thug culture. It brings nothing but utter misery and, eventually, a race war with a whole slew of people of all races who have nothing but good will stuck in the middle,
So maybe it IS the culture? I still say Costas is wrong.