Bob Costas Gun Control, Herman Cain was among the conservatives who sacked NBC broadcaster Bob Costas on Twitter after he offered support for gun control on a “Sunday Night Football” halftime segment on the broadcast of the Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia Eagles game.
The comments from Costas came a day after a Kansas City Chiefs football player killed himself after shooting the mother of his child.“You want some actual perspective on this?” Costas said.
He pointed viewers to a piece by the Kansas City-based writer Jason Whitlock, and then quoted and paraphrased the article extensively on-air.
“Our current gun culture, Whitlock wrote, ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy,” Costas said.
He added later, continuing to paraphrase, “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… 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.”
The comments from Costas came a day after a Kansas City Chiefs football player killed himself after shooting the mother of his child.“You want some actual perspective on this?” Costas said.
He pointed viewers to a piece by the Kansas City-based writer Jason Whitlock, and then quoted and paraphrased the article extensively on-air.
“Our current gun culture, Whitlock wrote, ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy,” Costas said.
He added later, continuing to paraphrase, “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… 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.”
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