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Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOi7If0zW9s
Bob Costas took time out of the football game to say some stupid shit about gun control quoting Kansas City reject Jason Whitlock. Guns are the reason that both this people are dead according to Whitlock/Costas. Good thing OJ didn't have a gun or his wife might have been killed.
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What did he say that was stupid? That if Belcher didn't have a gun, he and his girlfriend would probably be alive today? Most likely true.
I've seen the OJ analogy thrown up by every gun rights advocate and there's no doubt that Belcher could've accomplished his mission using other weapons. But, there's also no doubt that the easy availability of guns means more murders, more suicides and more gun-related violence in every single country where guns are readily available. You simply can't argue with the statistic that Japan, England and multiple other countries have virtually zero gun deaths and that the reason that is true is because nobody owns guns in those countries or guns are very tightly controlled. Compare that with the United States which has one of the highest rates of gun violence in the world. Instead of being ranked with Japan, England, Scotland and Ireland, we're on the list that includes Brazil, Mexico and Swaziland.
Don't get me wrong. I own plenty of guns. And, I'm not stupid enough to think that there is any way to control or get rid of the hundreds of millions of guns that are already circulating out there in the US. That genie is out of the bottle.
But, I think it says something about our country and our culture that we've now become numb about gun violence. Every day, something like this Belcher tragedy gets played out a dozen times around the US....Every 6 months or once a year, twenty or thirty people get shot by some whacko and our response is either "Oh, that's a tragedy" or, if you're a gun weirdo "Well, everybody should be carrying a gun so you could defend yourself in that situation." and then we go back to resuming our lives until the next story we see on the news about senseless murder and/or suicide by gun.
It's a shame.... and it's a shame that when people like Costas point out how absolutely insane the gun violence in the US is, they are attacked and vilified.
Bob Costas; idiot, hack, fool, jerk, all of the above?
