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I'll reserve my commentary on the commentary......I would argue that your rationalizations speak to how numb we are in this society to gun violence and murder. We’ve come to accept our insanity. We’d prefer to avoid seriously reflecting upon the absurdity of the prevailing notion that the second amendment somehow enhances our liberty rather than threatens it.
How many young people have to die senselessly? How many lives have to be ruined before we realize the right to bear arms doesn’t protect us from a government equipped with stealth bombers, predator drones, tanks and nuclear weapons?
Our current gun culture simply 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.
In the coming days, Belcher’s actions will be analyzed through the lens of concussions and head injuries. Who knows? Maybe brain damage triggered his violent overreaction to a fight with his girlfriend. What I believe is, if he didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.
That is the message I wish Chiefs players, professional athletes and all of us would focus on Sunday and moving forward. 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.
But we won’t. We’ll watch Sunday’s game and comfort ourselves with the false belief we’re incapable of the wickedness that exploded inside Jovan Belcher Saturday morning.
Jaguar wrote:Yep, and blamed loud music/arguments as well.
Guess the guy that committed murder/suicide in Wyoming used a gun too. Oh wait, someone wanting to kill someone else can use a knife? Who would have thought.
But basically Costas said "he knows" if the KC linebacker did not have a gun, him and his wife would still be alive. Wow, sports casters are psychics.
Didn't you learn in revisionist school that nobody was ever killed before guns came along?longhorn_92 wrote:Jaguar wrote:Yep, and blamed loud music/arguments as well.
Guess the guy that committed murder/suicide in Wyoming used a gun too. Oh wait, someone wanting to kill someone else can use a knife? Who would have thought.
But basically Costas said "he knows" if the KC linebacker did not have a gun, him and his wife would still be alive. Wow, sports casters are psychics.
So, if guns were outlawed, murder would never happen?... Life according to Costas.
Exactly.Jaguar wrote:I blame football. Such a violent sport, no wonder these poor kids cannot deal with life responsibly.
And that makes just as much sense as what Costas believes.
His rant is typical left-wing rhetoric. Bringing up the fact that our military has weapons like stealth bombers? Yep, they do. And they COULD level large portions of this nation. But he certainly misses the point: the COST of doing so. An armed citizenry makes it too costly for the government to wage war on the people. Its like the classic "Mexican standoff". The point of war isn't simply to destroy everything, but to destroy with an objective in mind. And if the objective is to force the citizenry to bend to your will, then an armed citizenry is going to make that objective VERY difficult. Look at what is going on in Syria for just a small example. My disgust with the political left continues...katmandu wrote:Just saw the announcer on the Cowboys-Eagles halftime quote parts of an article from Jason Whitlock on air.
Here's a link to the full article:
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I'll reserve my commentary on the commentary......I would argue that your rationalizations speak to how numb we are in this society to gun violence and murder. We’ve come to accept our insanity. We’d prefer to avoid seriously reflecting upon the absurdity of the prevailing notion that the second amendment somehow enhances our liberty rather than threatens it.
How many young people have to die senselessly? How many lives have to be ruined before we realize the right to bear arms doesn’t protect us from a government equipped with stealth bombers, predator drones, tanks and nuclear weapons?
Our current gun culture simply 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.
In the coming days, Belcher’s actions will be analyzed through the lens of concussions and head injuries. Who knows? Maybe brain damage triggered his violent overreaction to a fight with his girlfriend. What I believe is, if he didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.
That is the message I wish Chiefs players, professional athletes and all of us would focus on Sunday and moving forward. 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.
But we won’t. We’ll watch Sunday’s game and comfort ourselves with the false belief we’re incapable of the wickedness that exploded inside Jovan Belcher Saturday morning.